Japanese Sociological Review
Online ISSN : 1884-2755
Print ISSN : 0021-5414
ISSN-L : 0021-5414
Volume 35, Issue 3
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  • [in Japanese]
    1984 Volume 35 Issue 3 Pages 248-259
    Published: December 31, 1984
    Released on J-STAGE: November 11, 2009
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  • Akira Fujitake
    1984 Volume 35 Issue 3 Pages 260-269,387
    Published: December 31, 1984
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  • Mutsundo Atarashi
    1984 Volume 35 Issue 3 Pages 270-283,386
    Published: December 31, 1984
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  • Takatoshi Imada
    1984 Volume 35 Issue 3 Pages 284-295,385
    Published: December 31, 1984
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    Since the mid 70's, the advanced industrial societies have been suffering, in spite of their affluence, from the socioeconomic stagnation caused by the limits of growth. The coexistence of affluence and limits of growth indicates that they have reached at the ceiling of social evolution. Under this situation, the new technological revolution represented by microelectronics and the idea of advanced information. society have promptly been highlighted since the beginning of the 80's and now become a social movement. This movement evokes the social concern on a technologically centered paradigm for the breakthrough of the stagnation and the problems which the industrial society holds now are likely to be gone behind that. Rejecting this standpoint, I discuss, in this paper, how the three factors of the affluence, limits of growth and new technological revolution relate to the reorganization of order in the industrial society.
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  • Yoshiya Soeda
    1984 Volume 35 Issue 3 Pages 296-307,384
    Published: December 31, 1984
    Released on J-STAGE: November 11, 2009
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    Since the later half of 1960's, in the sociology of Japan the theory of life structure or life system has been developed. Using this theory, I will make the frame of analysis for the influences of the increasing informations on life structure and study some facts of those influences.
    I. I will mention the information behaviors between individuals such as conversations, keeping household accounts, writing the diary, taking photographs and fixing them in the album, making the movie, making the schedule and the last will and the testament, and conversations by telephone.
    II. I will study the information behaviors between the individuals and enterprises. The information coefficient is the rate of the expense for informations in the total household expense. As the income of household becomes higher, it's information coefficient grows higher. Recently the informations for life offered in the catalogue style tend to increase, and people tend to want the full explanation from profession. These two tendencies are observed in using the data bank. The customers list is made from the informations offered by customers to enterprises.
    III. I will deal with the information behaviors between the individuals and the nation. In the family policies such as the family register policy, the resident registration policy and the final income tax return policy, people provide a great many informations about their lives for central and local governments. The governments accumulate those informations. There is the possibility that the governments use those to administrate the people effectively in their own covinience. The nation sends many informations for people, too. But, they tend to be negative to accumulate and to use these informations.
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  • Osamu Nakano
    1984 Volume 35 Issue 3 Pages 308-318,383
    Published: December 31, 1984
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    Generally the acculturation advances in every fields of culture with the progress of the information society. But the progress is not always the cause of the acculturation. The progress of the information society and the acculturation are two aspects of the industrialized society.
    Since '60's, the life-style of people has changed remarkably-from the form of food, clothing and shelter to the patterns of the social mobility. Several mass-media, espeically TV, have broken into the everyday life and, as a result, has changed the conditions of man in the society and the daily life. The man has been isolated. The medium has personified and the people has not asked the news, knowledge and information for the medium.
    These phenomena has been in parallel with the diversification of values. The social-norms have become loose and the social deviancy has been a normal state. Consequently, the code used for decoding the social fact and presentation has been unstable.
    Then, at present, how to create the new culture? The new life-style at '60's has been obviously the cultural creation. Undoubtedly the '60's was the fecund age. But at the present time the form of creation in music, painting, literature, movie and play is the quotation, imitation, plagiarism and parody. The true creation is nothing but done in minor fields.
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  • -An attempt toward the post-positivistic self-understanding of sociology-
    Noriyuki Imaeda
    1984 Volume 35 Issue 3 Pages 319-332,383
    Published: December 31, 1984
    Released on J-STAGE: November 11, 2009
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    Both 'the postulate of adequacy' (A. Schutz) and 'double hermeneutic' (A. Giddens) can be considered as critiques of positivism. I think positivism has two main components, the 'unity of science' and the 'rationality of science'. The 'rationality of science' is my coinage. It refers to the belief that scientific knowledge is rational and objective and much better than any other forms of knowledge epistimologically.
    Traditionally some social theorists have critisized solely the idea of the “unity of science”. That has depended on the dichotomy of 'Geisteswissenschaften' and 'Naturwissenschaften'. Schutz and Giddens refute the “unity of science”, too. Their views can be seen as up-to-date styles of criticism on positivism. But I argue that their critiques do not necessarily succeed. So I will suggest that to gain the post-positivistic self-understanding of sociology, sociologists must criticize not only the 'unity of science' but also the 'rationality of science' by reference to Feuerabend.
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  • -Zur Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns-
    Moto Mori
    1984 Volume 35 Issue 3 Pages 333-348,382
    Published: December 31, 1984
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    Jürgen Habermas hat schon etwa 30 Jahre lang die Praxis in der wissenschaftlich zivilisierte Gesellschaft problematisiert. Im Jahre 1981 hat Habermas die zwei Bände, zur Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns veröffentlicht. Er versucht in diesem monumentalen Werk, einen besseren Zusammenhang zwischen der modernen Wissenschaft and menschlichem Handeln zu finden. In diesem Sinne ist die Habermassche Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns nicht nur eine der vielen soziologischen Handlungstheorien seit M. Weber, sondern auch eine kritishche Wissenschaftstheorie, die in der heutigen Bundesrepublik Deutschland diskutiert wird.
    Habermas formulierte die sogenannte Konsensustheorie der Wahrheit von einem neuen wissenschaftstheoretishen Gesichtspunkt aus. Diese Wahrheitstheorie bringt eine neue Logik des sozialen Handelns, die Logik des Diskurses gennant wird. Mir er scheint, diese Logik des Diskurses geeignet, bestehende soziologische Handlungstheorien in einem anderen Licht zu betrachten. In dieser Abhandlung möchte ich anhand dieser speziellen Wahrheitstheorie die Parsonssche allgemeine Handlungstheorie analysieren. Dadurch kann der Stellenwert der Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns als neu soziologische Handlungstheorie and als kritische Gesellschaftstheorie bestimmt werden.
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  • -towards a dialogue between the theory of reification and role theory-
    Shigeru Tanaka
    1984 Volume 35 Issue 3 Pages 349-365,381
    Published: December 31, 1984
    Released on J-STAGE: November 11, 2009
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    Role theory, whether based on symbolic interactionism or structural-function-alism, has been basing its analysis mainly on relations between “self” and social roles. “The other” has been considered as a mediator between “self” and social roles. But, so long as role theory has the task of linking individuals to society, it is required to recognize not “the other” which has only a secondary importance as a mediator, but “the othr” on which is bestowed a unique theoretical importance.
    Marx's theory of reification and his theory of “value-form”, which constitutes a logical basis of the former, provide a logical structure suitable to fullfil the requirement of recognizing a unique theoretical importance of “the other”. Certainly, there have been attempts to induce the theory of reification to role theory. But they are confined to a level where perverted relations between individuals and social roles are, from the point of view of philosophical anthropology, merely described and criticized by borrowing terms from the theory of reification. They may be said to have failed to make the logical strucuture of the theory of reification correspond strictly to role theory.
    This paper adopts G.H. Mead's arguments on “meaning” (which constitute a basis of hisarguments on role) to induce this logical structure to role theory. Since meanings and “value” as an economic category are both deeply connected with interactional aspects of social relationships, it is possible to set an analogy between Marx's theory of “value-form” and Mead's arguments on meaning. This paper, based on this analogy, makes it clear that the relation between “the other” and meaning/role has a uniqueness against that between “self” and meaning/role, and then attempts to reconstruct role theory. In other words, as this attempt is to link Mead's theory not to Marx's macro analysis of social structure, but to his micro analysis of commodity-exchange, it can be regarded as making it possible to radically unite Marx's theory with sociology.
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  • [in Japanese]
    1984 Volume 35 Issue 3 Pages 370-371
    Published: December 31, 1984
    Released on J-STAGE: November 11, 2009
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    1984 Volume 35 Issue 3 Pages 372-374
    Published: December 31, 1984
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  • [in Japanese]
    1984 Volume 35 Issue 3 Pages 374-375
    Published: December 31, 1984
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  • [in Japanese]
    1984 Volume 35 Issue 3 Pages 376-378
    Published: December 31, 1984
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  • [in Japanese]
    1984 Volume 35 Issue 3 Pages 378-379
    Published: December 31, 1984
    Released on J-STAGE: November 11, 2009
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