Japanese Sociological Review
Online ISSN : 1884-2755
Print ISSN : 0021-5414
ISSN-L : 0021-5414
Volume 30, Issue 3
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  • Susumu Inuzuka
    1979 Volume 30 Issue 3 Pages 2-16
    Published: December 31, 1979
    Released on J-STAGE: October 19, 2009
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    The analytical Framework of the social relation which is based by the interests is proposed in this paper.
    The theoretical construction is a following. The structure of domination is one dimension of social structure. It consists of a dominator, relation of domination, and process of domination. The core of relation of domination is a power, that is to say, exercise of power resources. The power is classified four types, and these form the foundation of hierarchical domination.
    We use the intermediate concept to analyze the relation of domination. It is named the “decision”, which is the key concept to declare a phenomenon of domination. The nature of domination differs either the existing the decision area or not.
    The relation of domination does not exist independently, but is situated the network of many factors. We say it the situation of domination. The two pattern of domination that considered the situation of domination is derived. Those are the Dependence-power relation and the Delegation-power relation, which consist of one part of the structure of domination.
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  • applying the model of Rogers
    Masao Nobe
    1979 Volume 30 Issue 3 Pages 17-41
    Published: December 31, 1979
    Released on J-STAGE: October 19, 2009
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    The purpose of this paper is to clarify the factors which influence the occupational changes of the farmers in the suburbs of a large city.
    Hitherto, these changes have been analysed in economic terms, such as the size of the farmers' land holdings. In this paper, however, these occupational changes are considered as responses to innovation, in order to test hypothesis derived from that of J. M. Rogers. The research was conducted in the suburbs of Tokyo, where the prices of land holdings are still rising considerably ; this research has revealed the following :
    (a) it is not only such economical factor as the size of the farmers' land holdings, but also their personal circumstances, status and network of relationships in the community that influence their decision.
    (b) the size of their land holdings is the factor which distinguishes the farmers who remain farmers and have started new enterprises from those who have become physical laborers.
    (c) until now, the farmers who have started new enterprises and those who have become physical laborers have been regarded as having, the same personal circumstances, status and social relationship, but the present research indicates otherwise.
    There is, in other words, a “marginal point” at which the land significantly effects occupational change : where the price falls below this point, the size of the holding is a very important decision factor ; above that point, responses to innovation become rather more important.
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  • From Kirishitan to Omoto
    Tomio Tani
    1979 Volume 30 Issue 3 Pages 42-60
    Published: December 31, 1979
    Released on J-STAGE: January 29, 2010
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    It is observed, in recent years, that some of the Kirishitan bands (descendants of hidden Christians) in the Goto Islands are breaking and indeed have broken due to the advanced ages of religious officials as well as the absence of their successors. Here I like to discuss on the principle and the the process how a large number of people in two Kirishitan villages in Shimo-Goto were conversed to Omoto, one of the sect Shintos. The phenomenon of the mass conversion of Kirishitans is a very rare case in Japan since the Meiji period.
    The conversion principle consists of three sub-principles ; the transmission principle, which is related to consciousness, attitude and action of a missionary and their correlations ; the acceptance principle, which is related to the inner and historical necessity which caused the Kirishitan villages to accept Omoto ; and the selection principle of the mechanism of their selection of none but Omoto. The conversion principle is based on the magico-religious character existing commonly in the two religions, which includes two elements, namely a concept of earthly blessing and ancestorworship.
    The conversion process consists of the conversion action and the subsequent institutionalization process on the cultic level and the organization level. In terms of the social relations in the conversion, “soil relation and implicit” pattern in another were analysed. Furthermore, the significant difference of these two patterns seems to regulate the subsequent institutionalization process. From my observation, the contrast of such conversion processes in these two villages was quite clear.
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  • A monographic study of “Oinomaki” in miyagi prefecture
    Kazunori Matsumura
    1979 Volume 30 Issue 3 Pages 61-84
    Published: December 31, 1979
    Released on J-STAGE: October 19, 2009
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    This article describes the relations between the inner conditions of the farm household that has side jobs other than farming and its working system which relates closely to the degree of its side jobs.
    In order to analyse them, I applied a method of the family life cycle, analysis. Focusing on the inner factors of the household is important for understanding of the rapid changes having been exerted on the farm family. The family life cycle approach is the most appropriate one for shaping out the relations between inner conditions and the working system.
    Up until today, there has been little concern about these inner factors when analysing the changes of farm family. Most of the studies dealing with changes of farm family have been constructed on the following model : the increase of a degree of side business in the farm household → a deviation from the stem family in the farm household (→ the trend of increase of the abandonment of agriculture).
    Against this model, in this paper, I firstly prove the process of continuity of the stem family under the circumstances of the expansion of side business, by using the empirical data.
    Then I analyse the influence of inner conditions of the farm household (the inner logic of 'ie') upon the working system.
    In short, the form family under sever circumstances, whose principle is the individual pursue of farming, could control their side-job-farms, as far as it observes the principles of 'ie'. The stem family of farming seeks its own “guarantee of life” with having not only lineal but collateral members engaged in side business. This guaranteed life is possible only on the basis of both family's cognition of land as precious means and highly mechanized rice cultivation.
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  • [in Japanese]
    1979 Volume 30 Issue 3 Pages 85-87
    Published: December 31, 1979
    Released on J-STAGE: October 19, 2009
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    1979 Volume 30 Issue 3 Pages 88-93
    Published: December 31, 1979
    Released on J-STAGE: October 19, 2009
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  • [in Japanese]
    1979 Volume 30 Issue 3 Pages 93-96
    Published: December 31, 1979
    Released on J-STAGE: October 19, 2009
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  • [in Japanese]
    1979 Volume 30 Issue 3 Pages 96-101
    Published: December 31, 1979
    Released on J-STAGE: October 19, 2009
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