Takeo Doi. This famous book describes at length the author’s concept of amae, which he describes as a uniquely Japanese need to be in good favor with and be able to depend on the people around oneself
2006
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- Takeo Doi. This famous book describes at length the author’s concept of amae, which he describes as a uniquely Japanese need to be in good favor with and be able to depend on the people around oneself
- He likens it to children’s assumption that parents will indulge them, and describes the Japanese ideal relationship as that of parent-child, emphasizing that all relationships strive for this closeness and protection though such an embrace does to some extent crush initiative and individuality
- The rich, semantic meaning attached to the term does differentiate
- The ideas that organize Bestor’s book are here used to define a Japanese food industry which is no more or no less socially embedded than any other complex economic institution in any other society
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