Toward a New Stage of Cross-Cultural Studies: Ordinary People in Individual by Culture Interactions

摘要

Holloway's [2010] book, Women and Family in Contemporary fapan, may well come as a surprise and challenge to readers holding a conventional view of the relations between individuals and cultural institutions. Holloway [2010] has certainly urged us to advance a stage further in cross-cultural studies. Her report of interviews of a few carefully selected Japanese women successfully depicted how ordinary individuals interacted with cultural and institutional constraints, and how they themselves were active agents in Individual X Culture interactions. In this review, we