Books by John (United Nations University Clammer

"Vision and Society is an attempt to show that it is possible to go beyond a sociology of art to the more ambitious possibility of a sociology from art. This book develops a theory of the relationship of the visual and the social and illustrates these with comparative examples from around the world"--

Is Japan in fact 'unique' and as such is it a society which escapes the net of conventional sociological abstractions? This book questions how special Japanese society really is, and the limitations of Western social theory in grasping the fullness of this dynamic and a complex Asian society.