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Contemporary Japanese Society: What Has Been Happening Behind Demographic Change?
- Self-paced
- Free Access
- Fee-based Certificate
- 6 Sequences
- Intermediate Level
Course details
Syllabus
- Obtain basic knowledge of how various structural aspects of Japanese society have changed or remained unchanged.
- Understand the basic mechanism of social stratification in Japanese society.
- Develop awareness of similarities and differences between the social problems affecting many advanced capitalist societies.
- Think actively about how these social problems can be alleviated.
Prerequisite
- Interest in Japan and East Asia
- This is course is particularly for first- and second-year college students.
Instructors
Sawako Shirahase
Professor of Sociology
The University of Tokyo
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