Japanese Sociological Review
Online ISSN : 1884-2755
Print ISSN : 0021-5414
ISSN-L : 0021-5414
Volume 47, Issue 3
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  • In Comparison with G.H.Mead's Social Self Notion
    Ken FUJIKAWA
    1996 Volume 47 Issue 3 Pages 320-334
    Published: December 30, 1996
    Released on J-STAGE: October 13, 2009
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    The sociopolitical theories of communitarianism are criticised in that their linkage to community and common morality is apt to become conservatism or traditionalism. Yet, since the need for re-examining community and tradition is oftenly pointed in the debates on modernism, communitarianism could not be blamed in its community-oriented character so easily. As some communitarians suggest, the rights of individuals are not opposed to the social life of community.
    But communitarianism seems not to reject this opposition. Then in comparison with the notion of social self of G.H. Mead, this paper examines communitarianism on the distinction between emphasizing the importance of community and subordinating individuals to community. First, the communitarians' proposition that individuals are to be considered within the community life looks just like to impose common good on every independent person. So, it can hardly refer to the influence of individuals on social change whereas active participation in social life is emphasized. Second, since it seems to give common goods the precedence, it restricts the range of social reform within the given traditions or moralities.
    In these respects, Mead's social self takes the attitude of others and emploies that outer social world taken within herself/himself in order to carry on thought, however, on the other hand, self is constantly reacting to the social attitudes and changing in the co-operating process the community to which she/he belongs. Thus Mead argued on social reform that appeared as a problem how to use individuals' experiences to make society more universal. I propose these Mead's arguments are useful to rethink the relation of community and individual.
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  • Yoshikatsu SUITSU
    1996 Volume 47 Issue 3 Pages 335-349
    Published: December 30, 1996
    Released on J-STAGE: May 07, 2010
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    There are many “discrimination” and “exclusion” in many social aspects even now. We have to discuss this problem in the “Life World” level. For this sociological analysis, we need use the methods of microlevel. So We discuss in this paper “EXCLUSION” coming about in the setting in that social interaction is keeping, because in the modern society “EXCLUSION” s toward physically and psychologically handicapped people are liable to occur in ambiguous ways.
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  • From the Viewpoint of Gender Role
    Reiko YAMATO
    1996 Volume 47 Issue 3 Pages 350-365
    Published: December 30, 1996
    Released on J-STAGE: October 13, 2009
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    The purpose of the present study is to reveal the relationship between the support networks of late-middle-aged Japanese men, and the roles these men play in society.
    Past researches have shown that men tend to rely exclusively on their spouses for support, while women tend to have large and multiple support networks, including their spouses, children, other family members and friends. These findings suggest that the reason women have rich support networks is that they are typically assigned “connectedness -oriented” roles, which put more value on making ties with a broad range of people than on being independent.
    In our investigation we propose following hypothesis ; that those who play “connectedness oriented” roles will have more extensive support networks than those who don't, regardless of whether they are men or women. This hypothesis is supported with data from a survey of Japanese men, aged 45-59. The sample results show convincingly that, as predicted, the more these subjects pursue “connectedness -oriented” roles, the higher the likelihood of their having large, multiple support networks.
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  • Katsumi YASUMURA
    1996 Volume 47 Issue 3 Pages 366-377
    Published: December 30, 1996
    Released on J-STAGE: October 13, 2009
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    The purpose of this paper is to investigate issues of a sociology of tourism, and to discuss the sociological meanings of “tourism”. Tourism is a social phenomenon which has different sociocultural impacts in all sociological dimensions, and is now a sociological subject which cannot be ignored by sociologists. However, most sociologists have little interest in tourism, and Japanese sociologists in particular have never undertaken this theme. Taking these circumstances into consideration, the raison d'etre of a sociology of tourism will be clarified.
    This paper will then attempt to examine some significant results obtained empirical studies on tourism. Those results are classified into four subjects-i, e. 1) tourist typology, 2) host and guest relations, 3) sociocultural impacts, and 4) international mass tourism, corresponding to four levels of a sociological space, respectively-i.e. 1) actors, 2) social interactions, 3) social systems, and 4) the World System. Finally, future tasks for a sociology of tourism will be proposed.
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  • Yoshiki OTSUKA
    1996 Volume 47 Issue 3 Pages 378-394
    Published: December 30, 1996
    Released on J-STAGE: October 13, 2009
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    Commodification of the reproduction process of non-human lives in agriculture, which has progressed together with the modern biotechnology, can be considered as the subjection to the commodity-economic system by analogy with the intensive accumulation regime in the regulation theory. Some modes of regulation consisting of social relations mediate the technology to the economy. In this study, the modes of regulation are demonstrated as the marketing strategies of the biotechnology by the states and the relationship between the mass-consumption norms in the core-countries and the contract agricultural system in the third world, which are shown in the hybridization technology of silkworms in the early Japanese capitalism, the hybrid varieties of maize and broiler chickens which has now been transferred to Thailand, and recent debates on the intellectual property of life forms between the South and the North. Finally, it is suggested that the discourses on the biodiversity and the genetic resources will be incorporated into the post-fordist economy, in which the new commodification of life will take place.
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    1996 Volume 47 Issue 3 Pages 395-402
    Published: December 30, 1996
    Released on J-STAGE: October 13, 2009
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    1996 Volume 47 Issue 3 Pages 403-406
    Published: December 30, 1996
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    1996 Volume 47 Issue 3 Pages 407-408
    Published: December 30, 1996
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    1996 Volume 47 Issue 3 Pages 409-410
    Published: December 30, 1996
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    1996 Volume 47 Issue 3 Pages 410-412
    Published: December 30, 1996
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    1996 Volume 47 Issue 3 Pages 412-414
    Published: December 30, 1996
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    1996 Volume 47 Issue 3 Pages 414-415
    Published: December 30, 1996
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    1996 Volume 47 Issue 3 Pages 415-417
    Published: December 30, 1996
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    1996 Volume 47 Issue 3 Pages 417-419
    Published: December 30, 1996
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    1996 Volume 47 Issue 3 Pages 419-420
    Published: December 30, 1996
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    1996 Volume 47 Issue 3 Pages 421-422
    Published: December 30, 1996
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    1996 Volume 47 Issue 3 Pages 422-424
    Published: December 30, 1996
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