TY - JOUR A1 - Feigenblatt, Otto Federico von T1 - Anomie, Racial Wage, and Critical Aesthetics: Understanding the Negative Externalities of Japanese and Thai Social Practices JF - Journal of Asia Pacific Studies, Vol. 1, No. 1 (2009), pp. 69-75. [Online ISSN 2436-8997] [papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1510469] N2 - This short paper concentrates on three powerful ideas introduced by three important theorists, namely, Merton’s interpretation of anomie in America, Fromm’s critical aesthetics regarding man’s consciousness in relation to nature, and finally Du Bois’ concept of the >racial wage< (Lemert, 2004, pp. 218-240). Those theories are then applied to the Japanese phenomenon of the sex industry<. Y1 - 2009 ER -