Order By Accident
The Origins And Consequences Of Group Conformity In Contemporary Japan
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By Alan Miller
By Satoshi Kanazawa
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- Jan 19, 2001
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- 168 pages
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- Avalon Publishing
- ISBN-13
- 9780813339214
While the consequences of low social order are well understood, the consequences of high social order are not. Yet perhaps nowhere in the world is social order so well developed as in Japan, which is highly organized, economically successful, and enjoys a safe society. However, Japan pays a price–the loss of personal freedom, and the inability to exploit its citizens’ talents.In Order by Accident, Alan S. Miller and Satoshi Kanazawa discuss the consequences of high social order in Japan. They integrate a wide range of scholarship on Japan, ranging from studies by criminologists, to religious studies, to the most current social psychological studies. The results are sometimes startling and counterintuitive, since the same theory of social order explains equally well why Japan has an orderly society with low street crimes, but is plagued with problems such as white collar crime.
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