Japanese sociology emerged by inculcating concepts from European and American sociology. However, it evolved in its own way and has tried to theorize and empirically understand human experiences. Therefore, its accumulated knowledge and wisdom is expected to provide valuable lessons to the world at large.
Contemporary Japanese Sociology aims at showcasing what Japanese sociology has attained and its expected future course. The editors of this unique collection have brought together the best and most challenging contributions in the field.
The title is organized into two parts. The first part deals with empirical works. It focuses on social inequality in the global society—inequalities in education, occupation, income, family formation—and cultural activities in Japan, Asia, and the world. Japanese sociology has produced significant contributions based on theory-driven, rigorous empirical research.
The second part deals with theoretical developments. It covers mathematical and rational choice sociology, two research streams that have dramatically developed in Japan. This part discusses problems of social dilemmas, social networks, and relative deprivation.
Emphasis has been placed on ensuring the articles are cutting-edge in each field, to advance the understanding of fundamental social processes. The volumes aim to bridge Japanese sociology with sociology in the rest of the world, thereby broadening the sociological horizon.
Contents: Vol. I: 1: Social Inequality in the Global Society: Introduction. 1. A Methodological Inquiry into Social Mobility/Saburo Yasuda. 2. Intergenerational Class Mobility in Post-war Japan/Hiroshi Ishida, John Goldthorpe and Robert Erikson. 3.Social Stratification, Intermediary Groups and Creation of Trustfulness/Arinori Yosano and Nahoko Hayashi. 4. Marriage Market Mismatches in Japan: An Alternative View of the Relationship between Women’s Education and Marriage/James M. Raymo and Miho Iwasawa. 5. Has the Youth Labor Market in Japan Changed? An Event History Analysis Approach/Wataru Nakazawa. 6. Decomposition of Inequality Among Groups by Counterfactual Modeling: An Analysis of The Gender Wage Gap in Japan/Kazuo Yamaguchi. 7. Class Awareness in Japan and the U.S. Expansion and Stability/Toru Kikkawa and Sho Fujihara. 8. Trust and Subjective Well-being after the Great East Japan Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Meltdown: Preliminary Results/Carola Hommerich. 9. The Transitional Phase of Mate Selection in East Asian Countries/Junya Tsutsui. 10. Fukushima Nuclear Accident and Its Aftermath: A Survey of Futaba District/Setsuko Hashimoto. 11. Who Supports Redistributive Policies in Contemporary Japan? An Integrative Approach to Self-interest and Trust Models/Kikuko Nagayoshi and Yoshimichi Sato. 12. Labor Market Institutions and Job Mobility in Asian Societies: A Comparative Study of Japan and Taiwan/Hiroshi Kanbayashi and Hirohisa Takenoshita.
Vol. 2: I: Social Inequality in the Global Society (Contd.): 1. Leaving the West, Rejoining the East? Gender and Family in Japan’s Semi-Compressed Modernity/Emiko Ochiai. 2. Understanding Intra-Regional Variation in Gender Inequality in East Asia: Decomposition of Cross-National Differences in the Gender Earnings Gap/Young-Mi Kim and Sawako Shirahase. 3. The Fukushima Nuclear Accident and Japan’s Civil Society: Context, Reactions, and Policy Impacts/Koichi Hasegawa. 4. Social Capital and Mental Health among Brazilian Immigrants in Japan/Hirohisa Takenoshita. 5. The ‘comfort Women’ Issue and the Embedded Culture of Sexual Violence in Contemporary Japan/Muta Kazue. 6. Decline of Real Love and Rise of Virtual Love: Love in Asia/Masahiro Yamada. II: Mathematical and Rational Choice Sociology: Introduction/Masayuki Kanai. 7. A Model of Relative Deprivation/Kenji Kosaka. 8. A Continuous Model for the Theory of Organizational Structure/Kazuo Seiyama. 9. Formulation of Commons Dilemma: Dawes Model Reconsidered/Michio Umino. 10. An Analytical Approach to the "Self-Fulfilling Prophecy"/Jun’ichi Kobayashi. 11. Three Structural Theories of Collective Action: How Well Do They Apply to Peasant Rebellion in Nineteenth-century Japan?/Daishiro Nomiya. 12. Reciprocity, Trust, and the Sense of Control a Cross-societal Study/Nahoko Hayashi, Elinor Ostrom, James Walker and Toshio Yamagishi. 13. The Emergence of Generalized Exchange/Nobuyuki Takahashi.
Vol. 3: 2: Mathematical and Rational Choice Sociology (Contd.): 1. Unanimous Opinions in Social Influence Networks/Jun Kobayashi. 2. Properties of Learning Models in Collective Action: A Rationality of Backward-looking Players/Tatsuhiro Shichijo and Yasuto Nakano. 3. Whole-Net Base and Social Capital: Stratified Opportunity Structure of Social Capital/Kazuto Misumi. 4. Market, Trust, and Inequality: An Agent-based Model of Effect of Market Attractiveness on Trusting Behavior and Inequality/Yoshimichi Sato. 5. Some Conceptual Problems of Social Capital: Tie, Strength of Tie and Trust/Kazuharu Tsuzuki. 6. The Promotion and Evolution of Cooperation Through Projection: Implications for Social Dilemmas and Trust/Yusuke Kanazawa. 7. Decision and Justification in the Social Dilemma of Recycling. I.: A Two-stage Model of Rational Choice and Cognitive Dissonance Reduction/Kunihiro Kimura and Mikiko Shinoki. 8. Does Shared Group Membership Promote Altruism? Fear, Greed, and Reputation/Toshio Yamagishi and Nobuhiro Mifune. 9. A Model of a Nested Small-world Network/Masaki Tomochi. 10. A Paradox of Economic Growth and Relative Deprivation/Atsushi Ishida , Kenji Kosaka and Hiroshi Hamada. 11. Labor Union Members Play an OLG Repeated Game/Michihiro Kandoi and Shinya Obayashi. 12. In-group Favoritism Due to Friend Selection Strategies Based on Fixed Tag and Within-group Reputation/Yutaka Nakai. 13. The Effects of Women’s Labor Force Participation: An Explanation of Changes in Household Income Inequality/Naoki Sudo.
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