Japanese Sociological Review
Online ISSN : 1884-2755
Print ISSN : 0021-5414
ISSN-L : 0021-5414
Volume 41, Issue 4
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  • Ikuya Sato
    1991 Volume 41 Issue 4 Pages 346-359
    Published: March 31, 1991
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    “The definition of the situation, ” one of the legacies of the “monumental” The Polish Peasant in Europe and America by Thomas and Znaniecki, has been often taken as a concept which primarily refers to voluntaristic aspect of social action. Even a cursory review of the literature reveals, however, that “definition of the situation” has been frequently employed to denote influences of sociocultural “structure” on human actor and his actions.
    This paper, through examination of the texts by Thomas and Znaniecki, shows that the seemingly nebulous usage of the concept indicates its potential as a “sensitizing concept.” Thomas, by assuming various definers and various situations to be defined, explored the complex relationship between “totality of influences” of the situations and human action. It seems that the concept can provide a foothold for bridging the gap between micro- and macro-sociologies. In attempting to do so, we should always keep in mind the cross-fertilization between theoretical as well as conceptual refinement and empirical research coupled with wholistic description.
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  • A Case Study of K-District in Kobe-City
    Hidehiro Takahashi
    1991 Volume 41 Issue 4 Pages 360-377
    Published: March 31, 1991
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    This paper is a monograph which treats of sociological reality lies around the Social Collective Means of Consumption nowdays. At least the followings can be said from the social research I got into the investigation area k-district in Kobe-city.
    (1) Only that Collective Means are there in a certain community never links to the formation of residents' several subjective abilities which contribute the slow but steady construction toward the newly communal society.
    (2) Those realy important are the relations which residents have with the Collective Means in there, daily their activities through which the relations could come into existence or by which and residents' subjective abilities through and by which those relations and activities mentioned above could be reproduced.
    (3) These three each now analyzed is composed of another each themselves as the factor for others' being and reproduction. In this paper, I generalized the concrete realities concerned with those threes' mutuality into a expression “Collective Means of Consumption-Triad”.
    (4) In very this “Triad”, we can find real grounds based on fact which objectively guarantee the probability or potentiality of formation of residents' subjective abilities toward the newly communal society.
    (5) The content and direction toward the construction of newly communal society would be grasped from the viewpoint of clarify the each realities nowdays around the “Triad” itself under each communities we try to locate as the objects for our social research concerned above.
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  • Using Data on Japanese Families' Adaptation to Job-induced Separation (Tanshin-Funin)
    Akihide Inaba
    1991 Volume 41 Issue 4 Pages 378-391
    Published: March 31, 1991
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    This study examines the empirical validity and the applicability of the family stress model, which was reconstructed from examination of family stress theory, by using data on Japanese families' adaptation to crisis of job-induced separation (Tanshin-Funin). By introducing the works of the social system theory, definition of concepts and a distinction between family stress and individual stress are made. The results of empirical test showed usefulness of the operationalized model, but it also revealed that the model is not useful in accounting for the adaptation to general daily life events, only useful for the adaptation to job-induced separation. And differences were shown in predictor variables between adaptation of family system and adaptation of individual, so it can also say there is empilical validity to distinguish two level. Those differences were thought to be the results from the differences of the problems occured in each level and the differences of the nature of each level's adaptation. Through the analysis, it underscored the significant influence of the value, which was assumed to regulate tasks of the family, individual needs, and permissible standards of evaluation to the family and individual.
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  • Ethnic Groups in a Borderless World
    Katsunori Nariya
    1991 Volume 41 Issue 4 Pages 392-405
    Published: March 31, 1991
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    This article will attempt to define the basic framework of international labor migration in the modern world capitalist system.
    Criticizing the conventional assumption (i.e. the push-pull theory), I shall support the globalist's theory that today's international labor migration is caused by the emergence of a borderless economy. Direct foreign investment by advanced countries accounts not only for export-oriented industrialization in the Third World, but also the conditions for the formation of potential emigrants to the post-industrial economies of advanced countries.
    However, the globalist's framework fails to explain the autonomous dynamism of the 'peripheral' and the 'semi-peripheral' regions and peoples. That is why I would also like todiscuss the active role played by (semi-) peripheral ethnic groups and states in the process of international labor migration. In particular, special attention should be paid to ethnic groups as 'transnational' actors of labor migration within the borderless world.
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  • Mahito Tsuda
    1991 Volume 41 Issue 4 Pages 406-420
    Published: March 31, 1991
    Released on J-STAGE: April 23, 2010
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    Cet article a pour but de tirer des oeuvres de Durkheim le concept d'«aspiration», pas suffisamment abordé jusqu'ici, et par là d'examiner la portée de sa théorie sociale sous un nouveau aspect.
    D'abord, dans le chapitre premier, en jetant un regard sur les idées d'égorsme et d'anomie dans le Suicide, nous confirmons que Durkheim les considérait comme expressions intensives de la crise de ses époques.
    D'ailleurs, dans le chapitre second, en suivant les traces développement théorique de Durkheim jusqu'à ses derniers âges, nous voyons que ces idées sont toutes deux celles de la théorie du besoin ou désir et que is théorie de l'égoisme se complète dans celle de l'aspiration.
    Les deux chapitres suivants illustrent la facon dont cette dernière est appliquée à l'analyse concrète de la réalité : d'une part, au problème de l'effervescence collective au sein des rites religieux (le chapitre troisième), et d'autre part, au problème de la création des valeurs aux époques transformatives (le chapitre quatrième). II résulte de celui-là que Durkheim pose la théorie de la religion comme du besoin ou du désir, sui generis, et, de celui-ci, qu'il tient la théorie du changement social, pour ainsi dire le«volontarisme collectif».
    Mais enfin, dans le chapitre dernier, nous retenons aussi le côté négatif de cet optique caractéristique de Durkheim, et qui synthétise la théorie de la religion et celle du changement social.
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    1991 Volume 41 Issue 4 Pages 421-422
    Published: March 31, 1991
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    1991 Volume 41 Issue 4 Pages 422-424
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    1991 Volume 41 Issue 4 Pages 424-426
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    1991 Volume 41 Issue 4 Pages 426-427
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    1991 Volume 41 Issue 4 Pages 428-429
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    1991 Volume 41 Issue 4 Pages 429-432
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    1991 Volume 41 Issue 4 Pages 432-433
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    1991 Volume 41 Issue 4 Pages 434-436
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    1991 Volume 41 Issue 4 Pages 436-438
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    1991 Volume 41 Issue 4 Pages 438-440
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    1991 Volume 41 Issue 4 Pages 440-442
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    1991 Volume 41 Issue 4 Pages 442-444
    Published: March 31, 1991
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    1991 Volume 41 Issue 4 Pages 445-446
    Published: March 31, 1991
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