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Japan's ‘Socially Withdrawn Youths’ and Time Constraints in Japanese Society

This article discusses how time is conceptualized among hikikomori, or Japan’s so called ‘socially withdrawn youth’, through the narratives of hikikomori keikensha (those who experienced hikikomori) and also examines time and space management in hikikomorisupport context based on ethnographic data. Hikikomoriis an act of retreat from time and space constraints in society. Hikikomorisupport groups provide a place for them to be without feeling such time constraints, but this is not considered sufficient to get hikikomoriback into society. Hikikomori, which challenges the usual coordinates of time and space, may be understood as a kind of reaction to time pressures and role performances in Japanese society.

Japan's ‘Socially Withdrawn Youths’ and Time Constraints in Japanese Society

Urheber*in: Kaneko, Sachiko

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Extent
Seite(n): 233-249
Language
Englisch
Notes
Status: Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Bibliographic citation
Time & Society, 15(2-3)

Subject
Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie
Soziologie, Anthropologie
Ethnologie, Kulturanthropologie, Ethnosoziologie
Jugendsoziologie, Soziologie der Kindheit

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Kaneko, Sachiko
Event
Veröffentlichung
(when)
2006

DOI
URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-223363
Rights
GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
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  • Zeitschriftenartikel

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  • Kaneko, Sachiko

Time of origin

  • 2006

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