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Japan's Engineering Ethics and Western Culture
Social Status, Democracy, and Economic Globalization
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2021
Summary
Given that engineering significantly affects modern society, ensuring its reliability is essential. How then should society implement engineering ethics to ensure its reliability? Can we expect engineering ethics to be nurtured naturally in the practice of engineering communities? If not, should the subject be compulsory in educational programs? Japan is among the most advanced countries with respect to engineering; however, it was not until the end of the 1990s that current engineering ethics education was introduced into Japanese engineering education programs. While economic globalization played a significant role in promoting this introduction, expectations of Western individualistic ethics and a hesitancy toward a foreign culture laid the foundation. Japan’s Engineering Ethics and Western Culture: Social Status, Democracy, and Economic Globalization examines the broad historical process of developing engineering ethics from the late nineteenth century to the twentieth century. Even though the process was rooted in Japan’s original culture and influenced by the ideologies of respective periods, such as nationalism and democracy, it consistently acknowledged trends from the United States and other Western countries. Natsume Kenichi discusses this history from a comprehensive perspective, including not only engineering education but also science, technology, industry, and higher education policies as well as various issues in science, technology, and society (STS) studies.
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Copyright year
2021
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-1289-2
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-1290-8
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
228
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Contents No access
Acronyms and Abbreviations No access
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Japanese Engineering Ethics before Democracy No access
Yamakawa Kenjiro’s Bushido-Gentleman Moral Education No access
Taisho Democracy and the Engineers’ Movements No access
The Code of Ethics Modeled after the American Professional Society No access
Nationalistic Cooperation in Engineering No access
Notes No access
Introduction of Democracy under the Allied Occupation No access
Introduction of American R&D and Management No access
The CCS-led Improvement of Engineering Education No access
Industry-Academia Cooperation in Engineering Education No access
Early Opinions on Engineering Ethics No access
Notes No access
Two Codes of Ethics Adopted by the JCEA No access
High-Level Engineers in the Establishment of the JCEA No access
The 1951 Code of Ethics of the JCEA No access
The 1961 Code of Ethics of the JCEA No access
Code of Ethics for Engineers’ Social Status No access
Between Democracy and Elitism No access
Notes No access
The Taboo of Industry-Academia Cooperation No access
Cooperation as a Solution to the Shortfall of Engineers No access
Cooperation as a Sign of Monopoly Capitalism No access
Cooperation as a Problem of Academic Independence No access
Reactions from the Promoting Side No access
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Reluctance to Enact a Code of Ethics for Respective Academic Societies No access
Promotion of Basic Research No access
Engineering Education Reform for Knowledge-based Economy No access
Increasing Social Demands for Applied Ethics No access
Global Pressure to Establish a Code of Ethics No access
Notes No access
International Equivalence between Gijutsushi and Professional Engineer No access
Gijutsushi’s Social Status and Ethics in APEC Multilateralism No access
Translation of the Engineering Ethics Textbook No access
Engineering Ethics as a Global Standard for Engineers’ Social Status No access
Notes No access
The Establishment of JABEE and Engineering Ethics No access
Expansion of Economic Ideology No access
Criticism of Japanese Organizational Culture No access
American Engineering Ethics Education at KIT No access
Autonomous Reinterpretation of Extrinsic Ethics No access
