150090 UE Employment, Gender and "Work-Life Balance" in Japanese Society through the Ethnographic Lens (2014W)
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Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
- Registration is open from Mo 15.09.2014 10:00 to Th 02.10.2014 10:00
- Deregistration possible until Mo 27.10.2014 20:00
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max. 25 participants
Language: English
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Immer Fr und Sa: 9., 10., 16., 17., 23. und 24.1.2014 von 12:00-15:00 Uhr, JAP 2
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Aims, contents and method of the course
Assessment and permitted materials
The first day of class, students will be assigned group presentations of the readings for each period. Each student will participate in a team to write a summary and lead the reading discussion for at least one session (depending on student numbers). All students will be asked to submit short (1-2 page) summaries/reactions for each set of readings. Final grades will be based on these summaries, the in-class team presentation, and active participation in discussion. Failure to submit summaries for the day the reading is discussed will be penalized.PlagiatsnotizBitte beachten Sie IMMER: Das Plagiieren, also die Übernahme fremder Ideen und Formulierungen ohne entsprechende Angaben (= Zitieren) verstößt gegen die Grundsätze des wissenschaftlichen Arbeitens und gilt als geistiger Diebstahl, der auch strafrechtliche Konsequenzen haben kann. Dies gilt ausnahmslos für alle schriftlichen Arbeiten von kleinen Hausübungen bis zu Masterarbeit oder Dissertation und Referate, die an der Universität Wien eingereicht bzw. gehalten werden.Nähere Informationen sind der Webseite der Studienpräses zur Sicherung der guten wissenschaftlichen Praxis zu entnehmen:http://studienpraeses.univie.ac.at/informationsmaterial/sicherung-der-guten-wissenschaftlichen-praxisWird irgendein Plagiat festgestellt, so führt dies automatisch zu einer Nicht-Bewertung der gesamten Lehrveranstaltung: im Sammelzeugnis scheint dann der Vermerk unerlaubte Hilfsmittel auf.
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
To grasp, through reading ethnographic scholarship on Japanese workplaces and workers, the changing nature of employment in Japanese society over the past thirty years.To understand how complex are the relationships between gender and employment, and how difficult it is to implement policies such as 'work/life balance', which heretofore are themselves implemented in a gendered manner.
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Association in the course directory
JMA M9, JBA M16, Modul Alternative Erweiterungen (für BA)
Last modified: Mo 07.09.2020 15:35
This course will be a reading-intensive seminar course, to be taught from 9 January 2015 through 26 January 2015. It will provide students with a background on how anthropologists and qualitative sociologists have approached studying the workplace in Japan since the 1980s, after the end of the period of high economic growth. Through these materials, students will gain an appreciation for the organization of Japanese workplaces. As important, however, they will learn how work fits into the lifecourse in Japan, how this has changed over time, the nature of societal expectations for men and women in regard to work, and changing concepts of how individual men and women should relate to their workplaces and how this fits into their identities as adults in society.