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The State Bearing Gifts
Brian J. McVeigh
其他書名
Deception and Disaffection in Japanese Higher Education
出版Lexington Books, 2006
主題Education / Schools / Levels / HigherEducation / Multicultural EducationEducation / Educational Policy & Reform / Federal LegislationPolitical Science / Public Policy / Economic PolicyPolitical Science / Public Policy / Social PolicySocial Science / Anthropology / Cultural & SocialSocial Science / Ethnic Studies / GeneralSocial Science / Regional Studies
ISBN07391134459780739113448
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=gGaAua7CKaEC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Using Japanese higher education as a case study, author Brian J. McVeigh explores the varieties of 'exchange dramatics' among the Education Ministry, universities, faculty, and students. With one eye on large-scale processes and the other on everyday practices, he elucidates trafficking between micro- and macro-levels and key concepts of 'value, ' 'exchange, ' and 'role performance' by studying how political economy configures dramatization and deception at the everyday level. Relying on extensive ethnographic participant observation and the notion of the 'gift, ' McVeigh challenges the commonly accepted idea of 'social contract' for understanding state-society relations. Written to be read as both a political and philosophical commentary and anthropological investigation, this work has theoretical implications for comparative studies of political systems, particularly regarding the relation between self-deception and the ideological manufacture of legitima