AJSS also welcomes humanities-oriented articles that speak to pertinent social issues. AJSS strongly encourages transdisciplinary analysis of contemporary and historical social change in Asia by offering a meeting space for international scholars across the social sciences, including anthropology, cultural studies, economics, geography, history, political science, psychology, and sociology.
It is committed to comparative research and articles that speak to cases beyond the traditional concerns of area and single-country studies. AJSS provides a unique forum for theoretical debates and empirical analyses that move away from narrow disciplinary focus. The Asian Journal of Social Science is a principal outlet for scholarly articles on Asian societies published by the Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore. It argues that male freeters' focus on adulthood as constituted through action rather than as the successful result of status transitions is reconfiguring ideas of adulthood in contemporary Japan. By drawing on participant observation and interviews conducted since 2007, this paper explores male freeters' understandings of adulthood through their views on employment, responsibility, meaning and action. Freeters, part-time workers aged between 15-34 who are neither students, nor housewives, have been at the epicentre of these discussions. However, with significant changes in employment practices, a weakening of school-to-work transitions, and the rapid increase of the irregular labour market to 38.2 % in 2012, there exists a greater acknowledgement of a diversity of routes into the world of employment and adulthood. Before the 1990s, Japanese routes to adulthood appeared to be well structured and strongly linked to the school-to-work transition and other status transitions, such as marriage, parenthood and home ownership.
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