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Susumu Omoto1990 Volume 40 Issue 4 Pages 360-374
Published: March 31, 1990
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JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThis paper aims at clarifying some traits in Kurauchi's sociological theory and pointing out its uniqueness or high theoretical level. To do so I take up a problem of society as a whole in contrasting with Luhmann's societal theory. And then, I choose the following three topics, the definition of concept of society as a whole, social differentiation and social change.
Though it is the most difficult task to bring out a general proposition, we cannot avoid this problem. The investigation of the problem is carried out in which destiny, stream, rule, and norm constitute.
The social differentiation is characterized by forms of segmentation, stratification, and functional differentiation. Using this triadic typology and three grouptypes that is befor group, neal-group, and after-group as factor of structural change give explanation to the change of societal system.View full abstractDownload PDF (1870K) -
Shoji Yonemura1990 Volume 40 Issue 4 Pages 375-396
Published: March 31, 1990
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JOURNAL FREE ACCESSAfter the publication of Sociology in 1953 Kurauchi concentrated his time and energy into the theory building of the comprehensive and complex society and its structural change. This article traces the theoretical development of the comprehensive and complex society, which is to some degrees similar to société glabale by G. Gurvitch or Gesamtgefüge by T. Geiger, and characterizes it in comparison with Y. Takata's theory about it and T. Parsons' social system. As for its structural change, Kurauchi set up both 4 variables and 3 groups in connection with the comprehensive and complex society ; the former are law (Gesetz) and fate (Geschick), norm (Norm) and trend (Strom), and the latter, the past-oriented group (Vorgruppe), the present-oriented role group (Jetzt-gruppe) and the future-oriented group (Nachgruppe). It is attempted here to make clear the significance and relevancy of these variables and groups to the comprehensive society.
Along with the theory formation, Kurauchi analyzed sociologically two paintings in indian ink by Sesshu, the Eightlobed mirror with Iching letters, landscape and a poem owned by Shosoin which was estimated to be made by Makibi Kibi in the T'ang dynasty, and the religious thought by Miki Nakayama, the founder of Tenrism. They are the works to adorn the last phase of his life. An attempt is also made to evidence through the analysis of his analystic procedures that Kurauchi is a researcher at the highest level as well as one of the most excellent theorists. In addition to this, this article makes clear that his sociological thinking of religion and his attitude toward it is deepened in the evening of his life.View full abstractDownload PDF (3207K) -
Hisa Akiyama1990 Volume 40 Issue 4 Pages 397-413
Published: March 31, 1990
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JOURNAL FREE ACCESSDr. Kazuta Kurauchi established his theory of the sociology of culture under the influence of German sociology of 1920s, especially Max Scheler's sociology of knowledge and forms of sympathy. Dr. Kurauchi insisted upon the importance of the idea that sociology of culture forms a part of general sociology and social culture (institutional culture) should be excluded from the objects of the study of culture. He distinguished “sociology of culture” from “sociology of society” by the difference of the character of culture treated in the respective fields. Since social culture means patterns of social action and ways of life among people, we should treat it in sociology of society. This view is different from that of American sociology of culture, which, closely cooperating with anthropology, chooses the ways of human life as its main subject.
Dr. Kurauchi was the first Japanese scholar who studied Japanese art from the sociological viewpoint. According to Dr. Kurauchi, the characteristic way of expression in Japanese art is a symbolic mode, which is realized by the similarity between artists' and appreciators' experience in human community and in their attitude towards nature. Dr. Kurauchi reached the conclusion that Japanese art is gemeinschaftlich in its essence.View full abstractDownload PDF (2406K) -
Hiroshi Suzuki1990 Volume 40 Issue 4 Pages 414-430
Published: March 31, 1990
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JOURNAL FREE ACCESSIkutarii Shimizu graduated Tokyo Imperial University writing a masterpiece “Three Stages Law of Auguste Comte”, and 57 years after, he published a little book Auguste Comte again to escape from sociologist. There exists a conspicuous contrast between the two images of A. Comte. This great amplitude of vibration in the direction of thought is a recurrent pattern peculiar to his life course. Between the two contrasting images of Comte lies all of his achievement in the history of sociology and the theoretical analysis of mass society.
In this paper I suggest to show some characteristic elements-failures and limitations of his mass society theory, that is in fact the very substance of his sociology itself, which stem from two factors in his personality formation, (1) being an extraordinary peculiarity of his upgrowing process and (2) a striking immaturity of his view on the locality-based life styles or the country-bred attitude patterns.
His anticipated concept of mass society happened to be gradually realised in Japan which also meant realization of his anticipated nihilism. He could not help transforming himself from a cosmopolitan democrat to a kind of patriotic nationalist, intending to overcome the unexpected situation of the anomic mass society.View full abstractDownload PDF (2162K) -
Nozomu Kawamura1990 Volume 40 Issue 4 Pages 431-445
Published: March 31, 1990
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JOURNAL FREE ACCESSIkutaro Shimizu was born in 1907 and died in 1988. He was a first sociologist who criticized bourgeois sociology based on historical materialism in 1930 s. But the Marxism he understood was not Marx's social theories but Soviet version which turned out the abstract general theory on history and society. During World War II, he abandoned Marxism and was converted to bourgeois sociology. It was said that because of his acceptance of American pragmatism he could be converted to sociology.
In the War time he read works of John Dewey and George Herbert Mead. After the War he published many books on sociology and social psychology and acknowledged himself to be a scholar who introduced pragmatism to Japan. But he could not understand the basic idea of pragmatism. For example, when he cited a part of Mead's The Philosophy of the Act in Japanese, he made a serious misunderstanding about what Mead said. Mead said “in so far……the tendency of scientific procedure is to analyse it into the ultimate physical particles, the ultimate scientific objects, which are thought of as existing not only in independence of these values but also as independent of all conduct and as the reality of the world within which humann beings with the values with which they endow these objects arise.” Shimizu could not understand the meaning of “particle” in this context and translated into Japanese “elememts.”
In his Movements of Thought in the Nineteenth Century, Mead said “one can……return the stolen goods to the universe, give it back its color, its form, its meaning and beauty……” Shimizu did not read this. But if he could read it, he could not understand what Mead said.View full abstractDownload PDF (1972K) -
Akira Fujitake1990 Volume 40 Issue 4 Pages 446-460
Published: March 31, 1990
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JOURNAL FREE ACCESSIkutaro Shimizu is a Japanese philosopher and sociologist who based his thought and actions on “experience”. In order to truly understand the life and works of Ikutaro Shimizu, it is vital to grasp what he exactly meant by the word “experience”.
This article concerns Shimizu's experiences in the early part of his life, including his time at age sixteen when he aspired to be a sociologist, and his early 30's, when he formed the essential parts of his unique theory on man and his environment. First I classify various personal and social events Shimizu came across during his early period to decide how these experiences affected him in forming a basis for his philosophy. Next I consider Shimizu's spiritual encounters with various philosophies of the world starting from the German “formal school” of sociology to which he was strongly attracted. However, he did not satisfy the unrealistic nature of the German “formal school” of sociology, then he took up the study of Auguste Comte and later American sociology, psychology and philosophy, while Marxism was a leading trend. I will mainly discuss the process by which Shimizu established his philosophy of “experience” by closely following his encounter with Comte's idea of mankind which he adapted into his own thinking to develop his own sociological theory on human beings.
I hope the discussion will help clarify the attitude of Ikutaro Shimizu toward life and society as a philosopher and sociologist.View full abstractDownload PDF (1932K) -
[in Japanese]1990 Volume 40 Issue 4 Pages 461-462
Published: March 31, 1990
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[in Japanese]1990 Volume 40 Issue 4 Pages 463-464
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[in Japanese]1990 Volume 40 Issue 4 Pages 464-466
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[in Japanese]1990 Volume 40 Issue 4 Pages 466-467
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[in Japanese]1990 Volume 40 Issue 4 Pages 467-469
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[in Japanese]1990 Volume 40 Issue 4 Pages 469-470
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[in Japanese]1990 Volume 40 Issue 4 Pages 471-472
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