農村社会学と世界システム論における社会的空間の比較

抄録

Historically, rural study in Japan has been strongly influenced by the study of folklore. The sociologists who are interested in rural study have been trying to explain the structure of rural life and how the structure of rural society has been changing. After WWII, great deal of efforts have been made on the explanation of democratizations of Japanese society in the rural study of Japan. However, what seems to be lacking is to juxtapose it in the world history.
Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to examine the framework of rural study in Japan. I intend to shift the present paradigm in rural sociology through comparison with the societal model of world-system theory and rural sociology.
Consequently, this paper suggests an idea of the framework in new rural sociology.