Japanese Sociological Review
Online ISSN : 1884-2755
Print ISSN : 0021-5414
ISSN-L : 0021-5414
Volume 36, Issue 3
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  • -An approach to “social planning” by systems theory-
    Yoshimichi Sato
    1985 Volume 36 Issue 3 Pages 286-300,403
    Published: December 31, 1985
    Released on J-STAGE: November 11, 2009
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    Most of the discussions on social planning have been either demands for rational social planning or empirical generalization about social planning. We avoid these approaches. The aim of this paper is to build an analytical framework which can analyze the social phenomenon of “social planning” as the object of empirical science and can pursue the logical possibility of social planning.
    We make some preliminaries for this aim. First, we examine the concept of “social structure” from the viewpoint of control. Second, we classify structure-controlling informations and analyze their control hierarchy. Third, we analyze the inner structure of enlarged decision-making layer which carries out social planning.
    Then we analyze “social planning” from the viewpoint of control and information processing. Especially we examine the cause which makes social planning start and analyze the mechanism which achieves the goal of social planning. As a result of this analysis, it is made clear that the goal of social planning is not necessarily set by societal value and that the means to the goal is not necessarily selected by rationality.
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  • -truth, norm, power, influence-
    Toshiyuki Masamura
    1985 Volume 36 Issue 3 Pages 301-317,402
    Published: December 31, 1985
    Released on J-STAGE: November 11, 2009
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    The purpose of this paper is to explain truth, norm, power, influence as communication media which operate in the social information world. Firstly, I attempt to analyze the function of these media to the actor, using the framework of action theory. Secondly, I try to analyze the function of these media to social system, in relation to the evolution of social system and social information system.
    Consequently, the following things was concluded. That is; truth, norm, power, influence are communication media which solve the two problem about the social interaction and the social system's adaptation to the environment. And these communication media formed two kind of relation. Namely, the first relation is the undifferentiation/differentiation of the same type of media ((1) truth and norm, (2) power and influence), and the second relation is the interdependency of the different type of media (especially (1) truth and influence, (2) norm and power).
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  • -A case study at A-chiku in Kobe-shi-
    Hidehiro Takahashi
    1985 Volume 36 Issue 3 Pages 318-334,402
    Published: December 31, 1985
    Released on J-STAGE: November 11, 2009
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    An aim in this paper is to find out a subjective fact which basically makes the construction of communityness around the “collective means of consumption” possible. It willl be derived from a case study of “residential improvement undertaking” which has continued since 1969 at A-chiku in Kobe-shi.
    In conclusion through the case study at A-chiku, the possibility and the importance of re-understanding on communityness from a level of subjective-analysis into the residents can be pointed out. And based on this analytical viewpoint, the problem of generalization through many individual community-theories which forms an important issue in the latest Urban Sociology will be realized little by little.
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  • Tetsuo Mitani, Kazuo Seiyama
    1985 Volume 36 Issue 3 Pages 335-349,401
    Published: December 31, 1985
    Released on J-STAGE: November 11, 2009
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    The present paper concerns with changes of the comtemporary Japanese family in terms of asymmetrical aspects in the intergenerational ties. According to our research in Sapporo, Japan, based on interviews of 343 respondents including male and female aged 27 through 77, the following asymmetrical relations are observed.
    Twenty items of interaction are found asymmetrical in all : nine husband-emphasized and eleven wife-emphasized. These are related with various kinds of behavior, which cover visiting, communication, leisure activity, exchange of gift, economic assistance and exchange of service.
    Five hypotheses on asymmetrical relations are statistically examined. Hypothesis of near-residence is applicable to some husband's parents-emphasized items, but not to daughter's family-emphasized ones. Attachment-dependence hypothesis is partially applicable to limited items of interaction. Hypothesis for role differentiation by sex is, in some degree, supported. Most of wife's parents-emphasized items are associated with avoidance of conflict which might emerge from interaction with mother-in-law. This is related with Sweetser's “stranger and successor hypothesis”. Interaction with sons except the first is limited within such items as formal gift exchange and occasional visiting. This indicates existence of differential behavior by birth order and sex. It could be called hypothesis of 'ie' family norm.
    On the whole, our data show weakening of traditional norms and inclination to be closer to daughter's family as well. Asymmetrical relations in contemporary Japan can not be explained by a single hypothesis, but by multiple and complex ones.
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  • Zentaro Sawada
    1985 Volume 36 Issue 3 Pages 350-368,401
    Published: December 31, 1985
    Released on J-STAGE: February 19, 2010
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    This paper aims to construct a model of mobility in organization such as promotion or lateral transfer. We distinguish two types of mobility. One is “relational mobility” : mobility along “mobility cluster”. Internal labor market theory of Doeringer and Piore is the theory of this type mobility. The other is “compulsive mobility” : mobility caused by scrap-and-build of jobs with the introduction of new technology or to save labor cost. Labor economists in Japan suggest that this type of mobility is one of distinct features of Japanese Labor-Management relations.
    To measure these two types of mobility, we re-examine the studies of mobility on the level of total society. Especially, we take notice of Yasuda's argument about compulsive mobility and pure mobility. We will show that “mobility table” analysis is not adequate to analyse mobility in organizations by three reasons :
    (1) ambiguity of times to be compared; (2) closed-system assumption; (3) confusion of moves and movers. Then, we propose open system “mobility accumulation table” analysis, which allowes people to enter and/or leave the organization in question. The frequency of moves from strutum i to strutum j is written in the (i, j) cells. From this table, we measure compulsive mobility to compare marginals of rows and columns, and measure relational mobility to standardize marginals. These two and the method of mostellerzing enable us to build a model to predict mobility in organizations. This model is applicable to the system where vacancies and superfluous members take place at the same time, which vacancy-chains model is not applicable to.
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  • Aug Nishizaka
    1985 Volume 36 Issue 3 Pages 369-383,400
    Published: December 31, 1985
    Released on J-STAGE: November 11, 2009
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    In der 1971 eröffneten Diskussion mochten Habermas und Luhmann ihre Au sgangspunkte darin gemein haben : 1) Sinn sei Grundbegriff der Soziologie, und 2) Sinnbegriff setze Nicht-Identitat der erlebenden Sub jekteh voraus. Die sich daraus ergebenden Fragen sind, ob und wie Sinn ohne Verkürzung, d.h. ohne ihm irgendein schon Sinnhaftes zugrunde zu legen, vollends begriffen werden kann, während es vorausgesetzt ist, daß er nichtidentische Subjekte immer schon impliziert, und auch wie aufgrund eines solchen Sinnbegriffs die Konstitution der einheitlichen Handlung, besonders die Ausformung der aus Handlungen gewebten Konstellation der Welt, zu denken ist.
    Wie aus der Korrektion und Ergänzung der Habermassichen Lösung klar gemacht wird, bedeutet jene Nichtidentität der Subjekten nichts anderes, als daß Handeln, welches als Praxis öffentlich ausgesetzt ist, jedem andern gegenüber Anspruch erhebt auf das Bestehen von sich selbst und der Welt, in der es etwaige Handlung sein soll, und, insofern dies so ist, bedarf es Subjektsbezugs nicht mehr. Wenn das Handeln an ein anderes Handeln anschließen kann, bedeutet es nichts anderes als die Anerkennung dieses Anspruchs, und dann wird das Handeln zur Handlung und so entsteht die Welt als solche mit einer bestimmten Konstellation.
    Während Habermas die Universalität des Anspruchs behauptet, gibt Luhmann der Besonderheit der entstandenen Weltkonstellation den Vorzug. Aber aus dem Gesichtspunkte von oben erwähntem können die beiden die gleiche Sache in Sicht haben. Die entstandene Welt ist zwar immer besondere, aber damit ist das folgende nicht bestritten, daß gleichwohl jedem andern gegenüber, also universell darauf Anspruch gemacht wird, das Bestehen der ganzen Welt als solcher besonderen als gültig anerkannt zu werden. Doch, um Hndeln vollständig zu begreifen, muß man beide einseitigen Meinugen zurückweisen nud vielmehr jene Universalität und diese Besonderheit zusammen denken.
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  • [in Japanese]
    1985 Volume 36 Issue 3 Pages 387-388
    Published: December 31, 1985
    Released on J-STAGE: November 11, 2009
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    1985 Volume 36 Issue 3 Pages 388-390
    Published: December 31, 1985
    Released on J-STAGE: November 11, 2009
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    1985 Volume 36 Issue 3 Pages 390-392
    Published: December 31, 1985
    Released on J-STAGE: November 11, 2009
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    1985 Volume 36 Issue 3 Pages 393-395
    Published: December 31, 1985
    Released on J-STAGE: November 11, 2009
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