Ronald DoreThinkers

Economic individualism is the basis of political individualism and hence, democracy.

Ethnography is concerned not with the question, 'did they tell us the truth', but rather with the question: 'What truth did they tell us''.

Flexible rigidities in the japanese market is on our radar. Try again later or consider contributing!

The Group is, in Japan, not an abstraction but composed of particular individuals who submit themselves to individuals whose leadership they accept, with whom they identify, on whom they depend for happiness and emotional security, and on whose approval they depend for his self-respect.

The Individual is, in Japan, one submits oneself not to a group of which he is a member but to particular individuals whose leadership he accepts, with whom he identifies, on whom he depends for happiness and emotional security, and on whose approval he depends for his self-respect.

Leisure is, in Japan, seasonal, rather than daily, weekly or monthly.

Western civilization is, in Japan, a phenomenon that had its biggest impact on the upper classes.