目次

1. Social Class Analysis as a Research Program Hiroshi Ishida and David H. Slater  Part I: Class Structure  2. Does Class Matter in Japan? Demographics of Class Structure and Class Mobility from a Comparative Perspective Hiroshi Ishida  3. Marriage as an Association of Social Classes in a Low Fertility Rate Society: Towards a New Theory of Social Stratification Sawako Shirahase  Part II: Class Sorting  4. From Credential Society to "Learning Capital" Society: A Rearticulation of Class Formation in Japanese Education and Society Takehiko Kariya  5. Social Class and Economic Life Chances in Post-Industrial Japan: The "Lost Generation" Mary C. Brinton  Part III: Class Socialization  6. The "New Working Class" of Urban Japan: Socialization and Contradiction from Middle School to the Labor Market David H. Slater  7. What Color is Your Parachute? The Post-Pedigree Society Amy Borovoy Part IV: Class Strategies  8. Motherhood and Class: Gender, Class, and Reproductive Practices among Japanese Single Mothers Aya Ezawa  9. How Ethnic Minorities Experience Social Mobility in Japan: An Ethnographic Study of Peruvian Migrants Ayumi Takenaka