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Amorphous DissentKINOSHITA Chigaya, TANAKA Hikaru, HORIE Takashi, KATO Tetsuro, TORIYAMA Atsushi, TANNO Kiyoto
Since the Fukushima nuclear accident in the wak...Since the Fukushima nuclear accident in the wake of the Great East Japan Earthquake of 11 March 2011, Japan has seen a significant revival in its social activism. Large-scale social movements spran... -
The State Construction of 'Japaneseness'ENDO Masataka
For more than 140 years, Japan's koseki registr...For more than 140 years, Japan's koseki registration system has functioned as the official means by which an individual qualifies as "Japanese". Information concerning each family is entered into o... -
Human Survivability StudiesKAWAI Shuichi, FUJITA Masakatsu, KAWAI Eriko
The challenges we face today are growing conspi...The challenges we face today are growing conspicuously broad in scale and complex in nature. Human Survivability Studies is a new transdisciplinary field born from the growing awareness of the urge... -
Learning English in JapanTERASAWA Takunori
Multiple discourses circulate Japanese society ...Multiple discourses circulate Japanese society surrounding the relationship between Japanese people and the English language. For example, 'Japanese people are the worst English speakers in Asia,' ... -
Social ExclusionHUMBERT Marc, SATO Yoshimichi
Just within a few decades, the global dream of ...Just within a few decades, the global dream of building a 'middle class society' has vanished almost everywhere, giving way to an emerging global nightmare: 'social exclusion.' France and Japan hav... -
Class Structure in Contemporary JapanHASHIMOTO Kenji
The author, Hashimoto, has been a solitary voic...The author, Hashimoto, has been a solitary voice in the social stratification analysis of Japanese society for the last two decades presenting its class structure in Marxian terms. His models and f... -
The Modern Family in JapanUENO Chizuko
This award-winning book brings together Chizuko...This award-winning book brings together Chizuko Ueno's groundbreaking essays on the rise and fall of the modern family in Japan. Combining historical, sociological, anthropological, and journalisti... -
Status and StratificationSHIMA Mutsuhiko
Exploring the myriad ways that status and strat...Exploring the myriad ways that status and stratification manifest in different cultural contexts, this collection presents in-depth studies of a variety of cultural forms in Asia. The first of the ... -
A Quest for Alternative SociologyKOSAKA Kenji, OGINO Masahiro
In 2003, a number of sociology and social work ...In 2003, a number of sociology and social work faculty members at Kwansei Gakuin University (Japan) commenced an ambitious program in pursuit of social research that might serve to enhance human we... -
Deciphering Stratification and InequalitySATO Yoshimichi
Employing a diverse range of quantitative and q...Employing a diverse range of quantitative and qualitative methodologies, this book offers a complex examination of the changing nature of social stratification and its subsequent impact on inequali... -
Frontiers of Social ResearchFURUKAWA Akira
This title is the second volume of the Advanced...This title is the second volume of the Advanced Social Research series which Trans Pacific Press publishes in collaboration with Kwansei Gakuin University in Japan. In this collection, thirteen ess... -
Intentional Social ChangeSATO Yoshimichi
Why do some efforts to implement social change ...Why do some efforts to implement social change succeed while others fail? Yoshimichi Sato observes in this book that existing theories focus on social action at either the micro- or the macro-level...
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