Nakane Chie
Encyclopedia
is a Japanese author and anthropologist. She studied at the University of Tokyo
after World War II. She is noteworthy in part as one of very few women of her generation in Japan to become a professor at a major Japanese university. She is most famous for her 1970 book, Japanese Society
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University of Tokyo
, abbreviated as , is a major research university located in Tokyo, Japan. The University has 10 faculties with a total of around 30,000 students, 2,100 of whom are foreign. Its five campuses are in Hongō, Komaba, Kashiwa, Shirokane and Nakano. It is considered to be the most prestigious university...
after World War II. She is noteworthy in part as one of very few women of her generation in Japan to become a professor at a major Japanese university. She is most famous for her 1970 book, Japanese Society
Japanese Society (1970 book)
Japanese Society is an analysis of the structure of Japanese society, written by Nakane Chie. The main theme of the book is the working of what Nakane calls "the vertical principle" in Japanese society, which is a series of social relations between two individuals, one of whom is senior and one of...
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Books
- 1967 : Personal Relations in a Vertical Society:A theory of Homogeneous Society. In Japanese Tate-shakai no Ningen Kankei: Tan'itsu-shakai no Riron
- 1970 : Japanese Society