ABSTRACT
In terms of its dominant value, premodern, communital Japan was an ocean of Harmony – a milieu in which ascribed status and particularized identifications informed the bulk of the people’s behavior. In the sea change that was brought on by bunmeikaika and the People’s Rights Movement, vast amounts of Achievement – an opposite, universalist, non-ascriptive value – precipitated into the society. (See Figure 14.1.) From the multitudes who were buried away in the microcosms of daily life in their hometowns, the early-Meiji sociocultural movements brought forth numerous groups of aspirants who sought to rise in the wider, outer world. General typology of social values https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9780203843956/5452df2c-10f5-4c2b-854f-a25b132a7cbc/content/fig14_1_B.tif" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/>
