Japanese Sociological Review
Online ISSN : 1884-2755
Print ISSN : 0021-5414
ISSN-L : 0021-5414
Volume 42, Issue 3
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  • Yoshio Sakurai
    1991 Volume 42 Issue 3 Pages 229-242,329
    Published: December 31, 1991
    Released on J-STAGE: November 11, 2009
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    We have a try to develop the theory of “demands of identification and differenciation” that Simmel opened out. Here we apply this viewpoint to the topics of “Iki” and “Tsu” that have been seldom approached sociologically.
    If we quote former studies of “Iki” and “Tsu”, we can make three types, “I Torimono= Iki=Kioigumi”, “II Tsu”, and “III Sui=Iki”. We offer a suggestion to take them in an united viewpoint as “struggle for prestige”, “Mode through the medium of the manuals” and “unstable emanations of two demands in the form of games”. In conclusion, we give a suggestion to interrelation of three atributes of “Iki” and the consequence of “Iki”.
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  • A Monographic Study of “Kimazuka” in Miyagi Prefecture
    Ichizo Goto
    1991 Volume 42 Issue 3 Pages 243-262,329
    Published: December 31, 1991
    Released on J-STAGE: November 11, 2009
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    Today the society of Rurban-village is a new type of regional society which is widely spread, and it differs from the villages of the past. Many studies have taken a serious view of the process of the high accumulation of capital ; therefore, this approach to the correspondence between native dwellers and new corners has been quite inadequate.
    Therefore, in this report, my principal aim is to define and clarify functioning of the Rurban-village society, by describing the relationship between the leaders in the Rural Community and new corners as an example of a certain regional area which remains comparatively rural.
    Furthermore, I intend to articulate “Burakukai” in terms of the substructural, administrative function and to emphasize the changes in the method of “Kuhi”, which provides the main financial source for the management of “Burakukai”. Since this method of collecting “Kuhi” was introduced in 1959, it has been changed three times.
    Notwithstanding, the logic of the maintenance of the prestige by the leaders in the Rural Community permeates these processes and “Kuhi's Classes” remain still fixed.
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  • A Study from the Perspective of Durkheim's Sociology
    Takayoshi Doi
    1991 Volume 42 Issue 3 Pages 263-277,328
    Published: December 31, 1991
    Released on J-STAGE: November 11, 2009
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    This paper applies Durkheim's social theory to a consideration of how the principle of juvenile court law, i.e. the respect for the criminals' individual rights, has been established and of to what extent the principle survives in the modern society. Contrary to our expectations, the idea of “children's rights”, currently of great concern, is increasingly undermining the principle of juvenile court law. The author concludes that the present respect for the criminals' individual rights has the latent function to strengthen rather than to weaken sanctions against juvenile offenders. The paradox of rehabilitation and punishment inherent in modern criminal theories will be sublated only by relativizing the myth of humanism which has been believed to be a priori for modernism.
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  • 1991 Volume 42 Issue 3 Pages 277
    Published: 1991
    Released on J-STAGE: November 11, 2009
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  • Keiko Nakae
    1991 Volume 42 Issue 3 Pages 278-292,328
    Published: December 31, 1991
    Released on J-STAGE: May 07, 2010
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    Peter L. Berger once wrote an article, discussing the obsolescence of the concept of “honor” as the result of the rise of the modern consciousness. This article could be seen as an eloquent witness asserting “honor” to be the core of values, and the most important principle of constructing a society in the long duration of pre-modern societies. And the concept still is among the significant values after the considerable modification in the modern age.
    In sociological theories, “honor” is referred as a goal of value-oriented action within the action theory : as a moment of integration to fortify the cohesiveness of groups.
    However, the relations of power to man (types of power-relationships) should not be ignored, in analysing the value “honor”. On what basis of integration is a particular power formed ? And in what relationship is man engaged in it ? These questions are important in order to define the social implications and characteristics of “honor”. I deal with this problem by adopting the concept of “value-basis of power” and determine the sociological significance of “honor” as value. For the purpose of this analysis, I examine the European thoughts and literatures all the way from the Classical Antiquity through the Christianity and up to the Early Modernity. Thus I discuss the theoretical elements of the transformation of the concept of “honor”.
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  • Consideration of the Interpretations of Weber's Sociology by Schutz andParsons, in Connection with 'the Category ofObjective Possibility'
    Kyoko Utsunomiya
    1991 Volume 42 Issue 3 Pages 293-306,327
    Published: December 31, 1991
    Released on J-STAGE: November 11, 2009
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    Both Schutz and Parsons attached importance to Weber's “Soziologische Grundbegriffe” in which Weber eliminated the reference to 'the category of objective possibility', that was found in “Die einige Kategorien der Verstehendensoziologie”. When Weber referred to this category, he presumed that there was a subject who composed the causal correlation. In this case he distinguished in principle between the position of an actor whose action was observed by a student, and the position of the student. After that he considered how the student could properly approach the motive which caused the actor's action. Weber also mentioned this category indirectly had relation to the works of Husserl and Lask. That is, Weber used phenomenology as the grounds to distinguish the actor's position from the student's one. Neither Schutz nor Parsons recognized the direct relation between Weber and phenomenology. However, Schutz criticized Weber for not distinguishing between the two positions mentioned above, while Parsons agreed that the two positions should not be distinguished. If they had payed more attention to “Die einige Kategorien der Verstehendensoziologie”, and had recognized the relation between Weber and phenomenology, their correspondence could have born more useful results.
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    1991 Volume 42 Issue 3 Pages 307-315
    Published: December 31, 1991
    Released on J-STAGE: November 11, 2009
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    1991 Volume 42 Issue 3 Pages 316-318
    Published: December 31, 1991
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    1991 Volume 42 Issue 3 Pages 319-320
    Published: December 31, 1991
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    1991 Volume 42 Issue 3 Pages 320-322
    Published: December 31, 1991
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    1991 Volume 42 Issue 3 Pages 322-324
    Published: December 31, 1991
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    1991 Volume 42 Issue 3 Pages 324-325
    Published: December 31, 1991
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