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Systems for documenting individual identity contribute to the creation and maintenance of social order and at the same time provide the very basis for claiming individual rights.2 Individual documentation systems may therefore offer windows through which we can examine the relationship that exists between social order and individual rights at a given time. One approach is to examine the popular perceptions that surround a particular system. Further, if conducted over time such examinations could reveal shifts in the way social order and individual rights are perceived.
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Krogness, K.J. (2013). What Do You Think the Household Register Is? Perceptions of Koseki Relating to Social Order and Individual Rights in 1950s and 2000s Japan. In: About, I., Brown, J., Lonergan, G. (eds) Identification and Registration Practices in Transnational Perspective. St Antony’s Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137367310_15
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