{"id":203,"date":"2009-02-26T03:18:08","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T03:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/?p=203"},"modified":"2020-08-19T04:33:37","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T04:33:37","slug":"taibatsu-corporal-punishment-in-japanese-socio-cultural-context","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/taibatsu-corporal-punishment-in-japanese-socio-cultural-context\/","title":{"rendered":"Taibatsu: &#8216;Corporal Punishment&#8217; in Japanese Socio-Cultural Context"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article grounds perceptions and perspectives of <em>taibatsu<\/em>\u00a0 (\u2018corporal\u00a0punishment\u2019) in the Japanese socio-cultural context in order to better understand\u00a0why and how it is used in schools and sports. By discussing how people\u00a0define <em>taibatsu<\/em>\u00a0and the various perspectives from which they decide their definitions,\u00a0this article illustrates the importance of socio-cultural context in analyzing\u00a0contemporary social practices. By laying out the various perspectives held about\u00a0the meaning of taibatsu\u00a0 today in relation to other important Japanese concepts,\u00a0e.g. <em>boryoku<\/em>\u00a0(violence), <em>shido<\/em>\u00a0(guidance), <em>shitsuke<\/em>\u00a0(discipline), <em>gyakutai<\/em>\u00a0(abuse),\u00a0<em>kibishii<\/em>\u00a0(strict), <em>seishin<\/em>\u00a0 (spirit), <em>konjo<\/em>\u00a0(guts), this article also puts forward the\u00a0argument that <em>taibatsu<\/em>\u00a0is a multi-vocal symbol.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ALMTaibatsuJapanForum.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article grounds perceptions and perspectives of taibatsu\u00a0 (\u2018corporal\u00a0punishment\u2019) in the Japanese socio-cultural context in order to better understand\u00a0why and how it is used in schools and sports. By discussing how people\u00a0define taibatsu\u00a0and the various perspectives from which they decide their definitions,\u00a0this article illustrates the importance of socio-cultural context in analyzing\u00a0contemporary social practices. By laying&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/taibatsu-corporal-punishment-in-japanese-socio-cultural-context\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Taibatsu: &#8216;Corporal Punishment&#8217; in Japanese Socio-Cultural Context<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-journal-articles","category-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235,"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}