household

is, in Japan, grounded in a person's emotional relationship to the real members of his household, which plays a more important role in achievement and success than any abstract notion of the ie as an institution.

De Vos makes a very pointed, and much appreciated, refusal to view the ie as institutional rather than personal. He writes, 'a person's emotional relationship to the real members of his household. . . plays a more important role in achievement and success than any abstract notion of the ie as an institution' (68). This kind of insight instances nicely his dedication to the interpretive project (Weber's project), and to the fact that inter-personal emotions are the glue of normative social roles, and not the other way around.

Japan

is not characterized by a unified strategy. Members of a household do not 'share a collective motive and will'.

must be analyzed in terms of cultural meanings because there is 'no such thing as a unified household strategy,' members of a household do not 'share a collective motive and will' (1984:331)

is a battleground where the children always triumph unless both parents unite to defend themselves.

A household is a battleground where the children always triumph unless both parents unite to defend themselves.

is a choreography of large and small mammals. pursuing their own cross-purposes.

household, n.All

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