University of Oklahoma Graduate College Cultural
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA GRADUATE COLLEGE CULTURAL LAG, ANOMIE, AND SINGLE WOMEN IN JAPAN A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE GRADUATE FACULTY in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY By AKIKO YOSHIDA Norman, Oklahoma 2010 CULTURAL LAG, ANOMIE, AND SINGLE WOMEN IN JAPAN A DISSERTATION APPROVED FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY BY Dr. Loretta E. Bass, Chair Dr. Ann M. Beutel Dr. Thomas Burns Dr. B. Mitchell Peck Dr. Elyssa Faison © Copyright by AKIKO YOSHIDA 2010 All Rights Reserved. For Brian and Mia ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Increased singlehood among Japanese women was the subject I wanted to study when I enrolled in the Sociology Master‟s program at the University of Wyoming in 1992. I left Japan to do my master‟s that year, myself being single and in my late-20s – past tekireiki, or the age by which Japanese women were expected to marry. My parents opposed my plan to study abroad, wishing I would have just “settled down.” Many of my female friends in Japan were also staying single at that time. We were what I refer to in this study as “women of the boom cohort” – the cohort of women for which marriage rates drastically declined. Despite my initial interest, I did not choose this subject for my master‟s thesis. But ten years after completion of my master‟s degree, marriage rates in Japan continued to fall, and all my single friends in Japan were still single (though I had by then married my current husband, whom I met in the States). Some sociologists, as well as the popular media, gave explanations for the phenomenon of increased singlehood in Japan, but I was not satisfied with any of these explanations.
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