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Item Details
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KAMIKAZE BIKER
PARODY AND ANOMY IN AFFLUENT JAPAN |
| By: |
Ikuya Sato, Gerald D. Suttles (Foreword) |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£28.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0226735281 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780226735283 |
| Publisher: |
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
20 June, 1998 |
| Pages: |
292 |
| Description: |
This firsthand account of high-risk car and motorcycle racing in Japan shows how affluence and consumerism have spawned various experimental and deviant life-styles amongst young people. The book offers a look at a form of delinquency in a country thought to be devoid of social problems. |
| Synopsis: |
In this firsthand account of high-risk car and motorcycle racing in Japan, Ikuya Sato shows how affluence and consumerism have spawned various experimental and deviant life-styles among youth. "Kamikaze Biker" offers an intriguing look at a form of delinquency in a country traditionally thought to be devoid of social problems. "Ikuya Sato's "Kamikaze Biker" is an exceptionally fine ethnographic analysis of a recurrent form of Japanese collective youth deviance. . . . Sato has contributed a work of value to a wide range of scholarly audiences."--Jack Katz, "Contemporary Sociology" "A must for anyone interested in Japan, juvenile delinquency and/or youth behavior in general, or the impact of affluence on society."-- "Choice" "The volume provides a sophisticated . . . discussion of changes happening in Japanese society in the early 1980s. As such, it serves as a window on the 1990s and beyond."--Ross Mouer, "Asian Studies Review" " "Kamikaze Biker" is a superlative study, one that might help liberate American social science from the simplistic notion that behavior not directly contributing to economic productivity should be summarily dismissed as 'dangerous' and 'deviant.' "-- "Los Angeles Times Book Review" |
| Illustrations: |
23 line drawings, 10 halftones, 10 tables |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University of Chicago Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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