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First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Manners and customs. --- Ceremonies --- Customs, Social --- Folkways --- Social customs --- Social life and customs --- Traditions --- Usages --- Civilization --- Ethnology --- Etiquette --- Rites and ceremonies --- Japan --- History

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This is a systematic philosophical and conceptual study of the notion of a social practice. Raimo Tuomela explains social practices in terms of the interlocking mental states of the agents; he shows how social practices (for example customs and traditions) are 'building blocks of society'; and he offers a clear and powerful account of the way in which social institutions are constructed from these building blocks as established, interconnected sets of social practices with a special new social status. His analysis is based on the novel concept of shared 'we-attitudes', which represent a weak form of collective intentionality, and he makes instructive connections to major topics and figures in philosophy and the social sciences. His book will be of interest to a wide range of readers in philosophy of mind, philosophy of social science, psychology and sociology, and artificial intelligence.

Collective behavior. --- Social psychology. --- Manners and customs. --- Social institutions. --- Institutions, Social --- Social systems --- Sociology --- Social structure --- Ceremonies --- Customs, Social --- Folkways --- Social customs --- Social life and customs --- Traditions --- Usages --- Civilization --- Ethnology --- Etiquette --- Rites and ceremonies --- Mass psychology --- Psychology, Social --- Human ecology --- Psychology --- Social groups --- Behavior, Collective --- Crowd behavior --- Crowds --- Mass behavior --- Human behavior --- Social action --- Social psychology --- Arts and Humanities --- Philosophy

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Are Japanese families in crisis? In this dynamic and substantive study, Merry Isaacs White looks back at two key moments of ";family making"; in the past hundred years-the Meiji era and postwar period-to see how models for the Japanese family have been constructed. The models had little to do with families of their eras and even less to do with families today, she finds. She vividly portrays the everyday reality of a range of families: young married couples who experience fleeting togetherness until the first child is born; a family separated by job shifts; a family with a grandmother as babysitter; a marriage without children.

Families --- J4170 --- J4000.90 --- J4330 --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- family --- Japan: Social history, history of civilization -- postwar Shōwa (1945- ), Heisei period (1989- ), contemporary --- Japan: Economy and industry -- demography, population theory --- 20th century. --- anthropology. --- contemporary families. --- demographic studies. --- family making. --- family models. --- family relationships. --- family. --- global powers. --- historical. --- japan. --- japanese families. --- japanese history. --- marriage and family. --- meiji era. --- modern history. --- modern japan. --- nonfiction study. --- nontraditional families. --- postwar japan. --- social customs. --- social studies. --- sociologists. --- sociology. --- students and teachers. --- textbooks. --- traditional families.