Japanese Sociological Review
Online ISSN : 1884-2755
Print ISSN : 0021-5414
ISSN-L : 0021-5414
Volume 28, Issue 3
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  • Naoto Sugioka
    1978 Volume 28 Issue 3 Pages 2-27
    Published: February 28, 1978
    Released on J-STAGE: October 13, 2009
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    Recently, regional organization of farms takes an important place in both agricultural policy and actual farmings.
    The present paper attemps to account for the interrelations between family life cycle and rural cooperative groups. The basic component of the groups should be regarded as a family rather than a farmer himself.
    It seems worth while to inquiry how the developmental process of rural families relates with the dynamics of the rural cooperative groups.
    Two groups are here concerned; one is'Motosatsunai Nojyo'as a productive cooperatives, the other'Motosatsunai Kikai Riyo Kumiai'as a group which is organized to use common agricultural machines.
    In this study is adopted family life cycle approach based on R.H. Rogers' 24 categories; it is a longtudinal study of the rural change for 15 years from 1960 to 1975. When we forcus on the development of the cooperative groups, the homogeneity of life cycle of the group members is connected with persistence and integration of productive groups. Additionally, the principle of group formation is not dependent on kinship relations as it used to be.
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  • Hiroaki Konno
    1978 Volume 28 Issue 3 Pages 28-46
    Published: February 28, 1978
    Released on J-STAGE: October 13, 2009
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    Since 1950 Hong Kong has been developing industries greatly with its rapid increase in population, mainly caused by refugees. More than 4 milions people are living in Hong Kong, 88 per cent of them are in the Metropolitan Hong Kong. Most of these people living in narrow urban area are poor workers. These people are facing various social problems caused by its overpopulated situation. In order to solve these problems, in 1968 the Hong Kong Government launched the urban community development program by establishing the City District Office Scheme. The Government now adopts the decentralization of power, and intends to pursue the grass-root community development. However, it seems that they can not get an expected result so far.
    In this article, I examined the reason why satisfying achievements in urban community development in Hong Kong have not attained, from the view point of political scheme of society, especially that in the district level. These examination are based on the data from our research held in Kwun Tong, Hong Kong, in the summer of 1976.
    Firstly, social problems which the people in Hong Kong are now facing to are examined. They cover all of the living phases ; problems such as housing, water shortage, unemployment, trafic, education, crimes, social welfare, medical care and pollution.
    Secondly, community development in a district level is intensively examined by picking up the Kwun Tong case, especially from the aspect of local organizations involved. The Area Committee in Mutual Aid Committee Scheme under the direction of the City District Office is identified as the most important local organization for a community develpment in a district. This MAC-Area Committee is a representative organization of the residents and a basic unit for the urban community development. However, the Hong Kong Government controls strongly this Committee through Government officers. Moreover, the Area Committee does not have its own source of revenue. The source of revenue is the donation from the local leaders. Thus there is a discrepancy between the administrative body and the local residents. The urban community development is stagnating under these political scheme of society.
    Also the fact that the lease of the New Territories will be terminated after 20 years from now has produced a negative attitude toward the reform.
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  • Examination of the Concept of Anomie
    Shigenobu Yonekawa
    1978 Volume 28 Issue 3 Pages 47-61
    Published: February 28, 1978
    Released on J-STAGE: October 13, 2009
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    An approach of social pathology from social formation is possible through the examination of the concept of anomie. The contradiction between desire and means is contained in anomie as a basic framework. Since anomie may be grasped as historical and social matters, such contradiction may be understanded as the structural contradiction which is between the desire of acquiring money or status and the means of class or social status.
    Anomie is the matter of social norms containning such contradiction. We should recognize the contradiction between the norm concerning desire and the one concerning means firstly, and the contradiction between class moment and trans-class moment inhering in social norms secondly. Anomie should be conceptualized as the contradiction between the general influence of the trans-class moment (being latent of class moment) in the norm concerning desire and concretly realizing of the class moment (formality or abstraction of trans-class moment) in the norm concerning means.
    Anomie is the reflection of the structural pathological quality of capitalistic social formation, and makes it's appearance as the dysfunction - as the loss of the meanings as the norm of act - of the super structure (Überbau) of the social formation as alienation state (Entfremdung Wesen). Because the contradiction between desire and means or of social norms concerning these matters is duing to the domination of wares over every social realm, that is, wares fetishism (money fetishism) and the metamorphosis of labor-power into wares (class relation of exploiters-exploitees).
    On the other hand, the pathological quality of anomie may be realized as anomic situation. Because the norm of act which orientate behaviours of individuals really works in the dimension of social situation. Thus, it will be clear that anomie takes the position of the medium between the social formation as alienation state and the particular social phathological phenomena.
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  • A Preparatory Paper for a Sociology of Social Problems
    Keiichi Kunisaki
    1978 Volume 28 Issue 3 Pages 62-85
    Published: February 28, 1978
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    This paper is the part I of the trilogy titled “The Breakdown of Market and the Crisis of Society.”
    Part I The Basic Structure of Market Society
    Part II The Breakdown of Market and the Crisis of Society
    Part III From the Theory of Market to a Theory of Society
    In Part I (this paper), I made clear an ideal type of the circular flow of economy regulated and integrated by market and the basic structure of modern society. In Part It, I will make clear how the limitless expansion of market pattern cause social problems. In Part III, I will point out the limits of the Theory of Market and the application of it to the sociological domain.
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  • [in Japanese]
    1978 Volume 28 Issue 3 Pages 86-89
    Published: February 28, 1978
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    1978 Volume 28 Issue 3 Pages 89-92
    Published: February 28, 1978
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    1978 Volume 28 Issue 3 Pages 92-95
    Published: February 28, 1978
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    1978 Volume 28 Issue 3 Pages 96-98
    Published: February 28, 1978
    Released on J-STAGE: January 27, 2010
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    1978 Volume 28 Issue 3 Pages 98-101
    Published: February 28, 1978
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    1978 Volume 28 Issue 3 Pages 101-105
    Published: February 28, 1978
    Released on J-STAGE: October 13, 2009
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    1978 Volume 28 Issue 3 Pages 105-111
    Published: February 28, 1978
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  • 1978 Volume 28 Issue 3 Pages 112-138
    Published: February 28, 1978
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