Seikatsu
In Japanese social science, seikatsu (生活) refers to a concept similar to livelihood, the conscious and non-submissive activity of ordinary people in shaping their lives.[1] Its agents are seikatsusha (生活者), referring to ordinary people as distinct from the more rarefied concepts of "citizen" (shimin, 市民) or "member of the nation" (kokumin, 国民).[1] The study of seikatsu is an interdisciplinary field of the social sciences.[2]
References
- ^ a b Sugimoto, Y., "'Japanese culture': An Overview", in Sugimoto, Y. (ed.) (2009) The Cambridge Companion to Modern Japanese Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 7.
- ^ Sugimoto, p. 8.
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