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Key Texts for Japanese Sociology
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Key Texts for Japanese Sociology

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January 2025 | 360 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
Though rich, diverse, unique and engaging, Japan's sociological outputs have been internationally underrepresented. In its thoughtful translation and curation of key Japanese sociological texts, this book redresses this imbalance and treads exciting new ground. Comprising 17 chapters spanning 7 decades, this text introduces you to fundamental themes, from classical studies in post-war Japan to contemporary sociological issues like migration politics, social mobility and gender-based violence. Key Texts for Japanese Sociology is an original, much-needed resource, empowering a foundational, confident understanding of the national, regional and local traditions of Japanese sociology from the latter half of the last century to today.

 
Part I: Sociological Explorations in Contemporary Japan at Crossroads
 
Chapter 1. Reexamining “Made in Japan” from the Factory Floor: Working Conditions and Workers‘ Objections in the Automobile Industry, by Ryoji Ihara
 
Chapter 2. Rationalizing Foodwork at Home: Coping Strategies and Social Stratification among Working Women with Children, by Yuiko Fujita and Misako Nukaga
 
Chapter 3. Running Away Barefoot: Girls in Nightlife Okinawa, by Yoko Uema, Translated by Alexander Brown
 
Chapter 4. Why Hasn’t Established the Official Migration Policy? Migration Politics and Liberal Trilemma in Japan, by Sachi Takaya
 
Part II: How Have Unique Concepts been Created on Emerging Realities
 
Chapter 5. Study of Social Mobility (1971), by Saburo Yasuda, Commented and translated by Satoshi Miwa
 
Chapter 6. The concept of “Beneficial and Victimized Spheres”: Excerpts from Shinkansen Pollution (1985), by Harutoshi Funabashi, Commented and translated by Tsunehide Chino
 
Chapter 7. Explanation of Class Identification by the Fararo-Kosaka Model: Revised text from Formal Theory of Sociology (2006), by Kenji Kosaka, Commented and translated by Hiroshi Hamada
 
Chapter 8. Life cycle of Wage Worker Family: Excerpts from A Sociology of Poverty (1964/2011), by Toshiko Kamada, Commented and translated by Hideo Nakazawa
 
Chapter 9. Paradigm Shift of Analysis of Contemporary Rural Communities: The T-type Participatory Rural Appraisal (2014), by Sadao Tokuno, Commented and translated by Taro Hirai
 
Part III: Networks and Institutions on which Japanese Sociologists Work
 
Chapter 10. Japanese General Social Survey and International Research Collaboration: East Asian Social Survey, by Satomi Yoshino, Tetsuo Mo, Kuniaki Shishido and Noriko Iwai
 
Chapter 11. Open Data of Social Surveys by Hiroki Sato, Hiroshi Matsui, Hiroshi Ishida and Ken’ichi Ikeda
 
Chapter 12. Educational Policy, Educational Practice and Evidence Based Policy, by Wataru Nakazawa and Ichiro Kuraishi
 
Chapter 13. The Formulation Process of the "Reference Standard for the Field of Sociology” and Its Outline, by Harumi Sasatani
 
Part IV: Postwar Japan in the Making: Classical Studies in 1950-70s
 
Chapter 14. Workers’ Political Attitudes (1955), by Rokuro Hidaka, Akira Takahashi, Kotaro Kido and Joji Watanuki Commented by Toru Kikkawa
 
Chapter 15. Thinking Styles and Organizational Principles in Religious Movements during the Expansion Period (1976), by Tsutomu Shiobara Commented and translated by Yoshihide Sakurai
 
Chapter 16. Research on the Tokara Islands Society (1982), by Hiroyuki Torigoe Commented and translated by Atsushi Makino
 
Chapter 17. The Hell of the Gaze (1973), by Munesuke Mita Commented and translated by Kenji Sato
Key features
This book is the outcome of the centenary anniversary of the Japanese Sociological Society.

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