Japanese Sociological Review
Online ISSN : 1884-2755
Print ISSN : 0021-5414
ISSN-L : 0021-5414
Volume 37, Issue 4
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  • [in Japanese]
    1987 Volume 37 Issue 4 Pages 392-407,505
    Published: March 31, 1987
    Released on J-STAGE: November 11, 2009
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  • Masayuki Fujimura
    1987 Volume 37 Issue 4 Pages 408-425,504
    Published: March 31, 1987
    Released on J-STAGE: November 11, 2009
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    This article attemps to study interorganizational relations in the policy making system for public assistance (Seikatsu Hogo) in Japan, using organizational theory.
    1. Public assistance policy is regarded as the system model, which is composed of three action systems and one institutional system. Three action systems are policy making system, policy implementation system and appeal system. The output from policy making system is the institutional system. The institutional system has main program (Daily Life Security Law) and sub programs. Its system controls policy implementation system. People have the right to claim public assistance, so the recipients or the applicants can make a complaint through appeal system.
    2. I examine two cases to study interorganizational relations in the policy making system. One case is the standard of livelihood assistance (Seikatsu Fujo), the other case is the supplementary payments to elderly recipients (Rorei Kasan). In these case studies, I give attention to several viewpoints, that is, resource scarcity, similarities or differencies of values and norms on the interorganizational relations, and strategies of Ministry of Health and Welfare (Koseisyo).
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  • Oppositional interrelations of driving forces and resistance forces
    Toyoji Tanaka
    1987 Volume 37 Issue 4 Pages 426-442,503
    Published: March 31, 1987
    Released on J-STAGE: November 11, 2009
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    It is time for us to develop more and better theories of the process of changing, not simply of change itself. We must develop theories of organizational change. That is why the point of this paper is to analyze the problems of change in a bureaucratic system.
    Public administrative organizations of local governments mnst be concerned with various social conditions in contemporary society, where the environment is turbulent and uncertain. Societies, organizations and groups are continually shifting their structures as they adapt to internal or external conditions. Our considerations revolve around the fundamental insight that systems are inherently structure-elaborating and changing.
    We show that the organization has a planned methodology and explicit direction for its own evolution. There are many various problems concerning the adaptation process of management systems to conditions of change.
    We are especially careful to consider the process of change, ie., the mechanisms of organizational revolution which arise, persist and dissolve. Process, then, focuses on the actions and interactions of the components of an organization. And we have defined the dynamics of forces of change, which include the driving forces of growth and development, the resistance forces of interference and obstruction, and the stable forces of the status quo and equilibrium.
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  • A Changing Community in the Outskirts of Great Tokyo
    Toshiko Bunya
    1987 Volume 37 Issue 4 Pages 443-460,502
    Published: March 31, 1987
    Released on J-STAGE: November 11, 2009
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    Throughout the period of metropolitan expansion, a volume of the urban population had expanded outside the boundaries of larger cities. On the outskirts of the city, the traditional agricultural community is forced to transform into the urban way of life. First, population composition is utterly changed by the flow of urban movement. Then, the agricultural industry is disrupted as a result of a rapid built-up in these areas. In these trends, former dwellers (mostly farmers) have to experience occupational changes and newcomers also get no satisfaction from the residencial environment. These two groups of old dwellers and newcomers sometimes get into serious conflict over economical interests and residencial abodes as a result of rapid transformation making these issues into serious problems.
    The social process of this new community can be observed in the two groups by the size of population and the speed at which changes occur. And social network analysis can help to understand the structure of the community at present. This essay tends to deal with a “chokai” community in Ichihara, Chiba, from these two points of view.
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  • [in Japanese]
    1987 Volume 37 Issue 4 Pages 461-468
    Published: March 31, 1987
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  • [in Japanese]
    1987 Volume 37 Issue 4 Pages 469-473
    Published: March 31, 1987
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  • [in Japanese]
    1987 Volume 37 Issue 4 Pages 474-475
    Published: March 31, 1987
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  • [in Japanese]
    1987 Volume 37 Issue 4 Pages 476-477
    Published: March 31, 1987
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  • [in Japanese]
    1987 Volume 37 Issue 4 Pages 477-479
    Published: March 31, 1987
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  • [in Japanese]
    1987 Volume 37 Issue 4 Pages 479-481
    Published: March 31, 1987
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