Japanese Family
and Society
Words from Tongo Takebe,
A Meiji Era Sociologist
Haworth Series in Marriage & Family Studies
Suzanne K. Steinmetz, PhD, MSW
Editor
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Japanese Family and Society: Words from Tongo Takebe, A Meiji Era Sociologist edited by Teruhito Sako and Suzanne K. Steinmetz
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Takebe, Tongo, 1871-1945.
Japanese family and society: words from Tongo Takebe, a Meiji era sociologist/Teruhito Sako,
Suzanne K. Steinmetz, editors.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN: 978-0-7890-3260-7 (hard : alk. paper)
ISBN: 978-0-7890-3261-4 (soft : alk. paper)
1. SociologyJapan. 2. SociologyJapanHistory. 3. FamilyJapan. 4. Sociology. 5. Family.
I. Sako, Teruhito, 1968-. II. Steinmetz, Suzanne K. III. Title.
HM477.J3T35 2007
306.850952dc222007000473
Tongo Takebe March 21, 1871-February 18, 1945
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ABOUT THE EDITORS
Dr. Teruhito Sako, PhD , received his undergraduate degree from Meiji Gakuin University in 1992 and his Doctorate from Hosei University in 1998. He is currently a lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan. Dr. Sako was a Research Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science from 20012004. He has published Two different Aspects of Social Order: From the Participants View and Confucianism and Sociology: A Reevalua-tion of Tongo Takebes Early Works, both published in the Japanese Sociological Review , The Concepts of Action Reconsidered, published in Sociology , and the book Clarifying the Problem of Order .
Dr. Suzanne K. Steinmetz, PhD, MSW , received her PhD in 1975 from Case Western Reserve University and her MSW in 1994 from Indiana University. She is Professor and former Chair of the Department of Sociology at Indiana UniversityPurdue University at Indianapolis. She is author/editor or co-author/editor of fourteen books, including: Parent-Youth Relations: Cultural and Cross-Cultural Perspectives; Pioneering Paths in the Study of Families: The Lives and Careers of Family Scholars; Fatherhood: Research, Interventions and Policies; Concepts and Definitions of Family for the 21st Century; Sourcebook of Family Theory and Methods: A Contextual Approach; Marriage and Family Reality: Historical and Contemporary Analysis; Duty Bound: Elder Abuse and Family Care; Family and Support Systems Across the Life Span; Handbook of Marriage and the Family (1st & 2nd Ed.); and Violence in the Family . She has also authored more than 100 additional publications and has produced a curriculum for reducing conflict and violence in the school, and two videos on elder abuse. Dr. Steinmetz is Editor of Marriage & Family Review .