The Modern Japanese Family System In The Perspective Of Individual Modernization

Since the Meiji Restoration,Japan has started a transformation to a modernized society under the strong impact of Western capitalist industrial civilization.In the process of transition,by learning foreign technology,developing the industry,education and other vigorous initiatives to improve themselves,Japan has become a powerhouse in Asia.The development of the modern state must have a superior social system and good social management system.At the same time,a social modern system needs everyone to obey established conditions and follow the abstract rules.Therefore,it is necessary for countries to achieve social modernization with the modern system to adapt to human modernization.There is an interdependence between modern national system of Japan and its modern family,and the modern family system will play an important role in the individual undoubtedly for the modern people.Family has a variety of functions,and modern families have undergone tremendous changes both in ideas and the business plan,which also exerts the most direct impacts in modern human consciousness.After the failure of World War?,Japan achieved another new social transformation through democratic reform,and this time,the traditional"Family system" was collapsing in economic,political,cultural and other aspects.The disintegration of the "Family system" caused the Japanese family structure and function to have to face a new integration and reconstruction.At the same time,this change also brought some new changes of modern Japanese's behavior,ideas and consciousness.Building a "free and happy family" becomes a goal that the modern Japanese society including everyone wants to pursue.However,the new ideas today have some potential problems that Japanese family faces.Through researching many works of the family sociology of Japanese scholars,and referencing the important results on study of Japanese family system,this paper begins with the transition process of Japanese family system,analyzes the modern Japanese family structure,function and the changes of consciousness of Japanese family and cards them.On analyzing the changes of the characteristics of the Japanese family system,combined with Alex Inkeles description of modern features,the paper discusses modern Japanese marriage selection,parent-child relations,and the status of women attitude change.Finally,the paper summarizes the impact of modernization on the moderrn youngfamily,and clarifies the major family problems that Japanese society faces in recent years.In short,the value of modern Japanese family has turned from the Collaborative Group to the couple,and has become individual symbiotic emotional hub of people under the influence of moderrn consciousness.