High suicide rates among Japanese teenagers indicate a socialization crisis originating in either the socio-cultural system (pressures, disappointed expectations) or the economic system, demonstrating that Habermas's framework applies universally across cultures.
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“if you were to look at something like the suicide rate among teenagers in Japan that in fact there was some problem in the process by which these young people are socialized which would account for the very high rate of suicide there is some set of disappointed expectations perhaps a set of pressures imposed upon them which cannot be rationally legitimized”
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Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition - Part 6 - Habermas' Critical Theory— Michael SugrueCreated: 8/10/2026, 11:16:47 PM
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