Order by accident : the origins and consequences of conformity in contemporary Japan / Alan S. Miller, Satoshi Kanazawa.

Part 1 Theoretical Orientation
1 Social Order and Social Control: An Introduction 3
Ironies of Social Structure 4
Social Order 5
Informal Social Control 8
2 Solidaristic Theory of Social Order 13
How Social Order Emerges as an Unintended Consequence of Group Solidarity 14
How Groups Produce Solidarity 16
Part 2 Social Institutions
3 Education System: Social Initiation 23
Dependence and Normative Obligations 24
Visibility, Monitoring, and Sanctioning 34
4 Work: A Continuation 39
Dependence and Normative Obligations 40
Visibility, Monitoring, and Sanctioning 46
5 Family 51
Division of Labor 51
Family Patterns 56
Relationship to Social Control 58
6 Crime 61
Theories of Crime 63
Japanese Social Structure and Its Relationship to Crime 68
Part 3 Nonintuitive Consequences
7 Crime Revisited: White-Collar Crimes 81
Refining Our Concept of White-Collar Crime 82
Companies as Subcultures 85
Examples of White-Collar Crime in Japan 88
8 Religious Landscape of Japan 93
Religion in Japan 93
Japanese Social Structure and Its Impact on Religion 98
Empirical Support 100
9 Trust 105
Are Japanese Group-Oriented? 105
Generalized Trust 107
Redefining a Culture of Collectivism 114
Part 4 Speculations and Conclusions
10 Emergence of Cooperative Social Institutions 121
What Are Cooperative Social Institutions? 121
How Do Cooperative Social Institutions Emerge? 124
How Did the Unique Cooperative Institutions Emerge Only in Japan? 129.