Japanese Enterprise and American Middle-Class Values
JOE YAMAMOTO M.D.1, and
MAMORU IGA PH.D.2
1 Professor of Psychiatry, University of Southern California School of Medicine, 1237 N. Mission Rd., Los Angeles, Calif. 90033
2 Professor of Sociology, California State University at Northridge
By showing how the value orientation of the Japanese-American minority population in the United States has successfully related to the Protestant ethic of the American middle class, the authors hope to identify factors that promote the social integration of disadvanzaged minority groups.