The Retreatism Process of Hikikomori People on the Example of 24 Japanese Hikikomori Clients

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In this publication I present a fragment of the results of my doctoral thesis, in which assuming in the sociological perspective that I am dealing with an example or a form of one of five types of adaptation to the situation of anomie named by the American sociologist Robert K. Merton: “retreatism”, on the example of 24 Japanese Hikikomori clients, described a problem being at the center of my scientific interests - the Shakaiteki Hikikomori (Eng. Social Withdrawal) in Japan (i.a. the profile of Hikikomori person, the retreatism process of Hikikomori people, the socio-cultural factors favoring the retreatism option in the form of Hikikomori etc.) More specifically, in this publication I present the retreatism process of Hikikomori people.
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Kalita, K. (2018). The Retreatism Process of Hikikomori People on the Example of 24 Japanese Hikikomori Clients. Seminare, 39(4), 129-143. http://doi.org/10.21852/sem.2018.4.11.
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