Japanese Sociological Review
Online ISSN : 1884-2755
Print ISSN : 0021-5414
ISSN-L : 0021-5414
Volume 28, Issue 4
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  • [in Japanese]
    1978 Volume 28 Issue 4 Pages 2-10
    Published: March 31, 1978
    Released on J-STAGE: October 19, 2009
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  • Haruhiko Nishida
    1978 Volume 28 Issue 4 Pages 11-29
    Published: March 31, 1978
    Released on J-STAGE: October 19, 2009
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    Mathematical sociology in Japan has developed through the quantitative data analysis of sociological research.
    Mathematical sociology has two aspects : measurement of social phenomena and its analysis by mathematical models. Nowadays, when we have some qualitative data which are gotten as classification or order relation, we often utilize nonmetric multidimensional scalings. Hayashi's quantification of data and his minimum dimension analysis (MDA) are as well known in Japan as SSA and MDS.
    Recently, some sociologists are interested in the individual differences model and threemode factor analysis. These models belong to multidimensional scalings and are useful to know the individuality of a social object. As an example, I deal with the social characteristic of seven Japanese cities about their population in 1960, 1965 and 1970. The social characteristic can be shown by the size of components of each city and the coefficient of correlation between each pair of components. In 1970, Tokyo, Yokohama and Kitakyushu are separated from Nagoya, Kyoto, Osaka and Kobe. In the large scale, however, there had been no great change in the structures of population of these cities for ten years.
    Also, I should pay attention to the investigations of social mobility which have been carried on since 1952. Some scholars try the measurement of mobility, variance analysis and path analysis in the intergenerational mobility. Then, they compare the data of Tokyo with those of chicago. They conclude that the mobility of Tokyo is more than that of chicago and one's social status is depend on rather his achievement than ascription.
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  • Kojiro Imazu
    1978 Volume 28 Issue 4 Pages 30-48
    Published: March 31, 1978
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    The emerging social consciousness which we find in Japanese education at present manifests itself as a spirit of intense competition during the school career.
    It is competition not only in having a brilliant academic career but also in cultivating various non-academic attributes. It emerges because the social status of university graduates has decreased with the expansion of higher education. After-hours schools for practice on musical instruments and individual sports, etc., (Okeiko-Juku) show the magnitude of this extreme competitiveness.
    Alternately, this new type of competition is the tangible expression that parents are unsatisfied with social standardization in modes of modern life, and the lengths they will go to attempt higher social status for their children.
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  • Shoji Saito, Katsunori Ikeda, Atsuhiro Terada
    1978 Volume 28 Issue 4 Pages 49-59
    Published: March 31, 1978
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    This investigation was carried out among a sample of blue-collar in Japan, by using the same research items as Melvin Seeman's study with his permission. He carried out this investigation in the United States and two other countries. Some research items were adapted for Japanese society and the items of ethnic prejudice were all excluded. However, this investigation is comparable with Seeman's study.
    Thus, this investigation deals with powerlessness, meaninglessness, normlessness, social isolation, cultural estrangement and self-estrangement. Seeman presents the view that alienation (especially work alienation) is not correlated significantly with consequences (behavior).
    In the light of these evidences, Seeman provokes serious doubt about established theses concerning alienation ; centrality of work experience, the coherence of the syndrome of alienation from which contemporary men are said to suffer and the lost community.
    Our evidence is presented in Tables. It is almost the same as Seeman's study, but we have several different points. This seems to be induced by social and cultural trait. However, we suggest a difficulty in Seeman's investigation itself.
    We designed to search for new findings and propose some doubt about verifiability of the study of social psychology about alienation. Moreover, the investigation for white-collar was already completed.
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  • [in Japanese]
    1978 Volume 28 Issue 4 Pages 60-67
    Published: March 31, 1978
    Released on J-STAGE: October 19, 2009
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    1978 Volume 28 Issue 4 Pages 68-79
    Published: March 31, 1978
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  • [in Japanese]
    1978 Volume 28 Issue 4 Pages 80-84
    Published: March 31, 1978
    Released on J-STAGE: October 19, 2009
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  • [in Japanese]
    1978 Volume 28 Issue 4 Pages 84-87
    Published: March 31, 1978
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  • [in Japanese]
    1978 Volume 28 Issue 4 Pages 88-91
    Published: March 31, 1978
    Released on J-STAGE: October 19, 2009
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