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An Examination of the Concept of the American NationTomochika OKAMOTO2003 Volume 54 Issue 2 Pages 144-158
Published: September 30, 2003
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JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThis paper examines the shifts in U.S. compensation policies for wartime internment of Japanese Americans since 1945 and aims to document the implicit changes in the concept of the American nation. By contrasting the Japanese American Evacuation Claims Act of 1948 with the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, this paper describes the reconstruction of the logic for national integration. Through the investigation of legal materials in the 1990s, this paper also reveals the implementation of the Civil Liberties Acts and aims to contribute to the field of Japanese American studies. The analytical framework is drawn from Anthony D. Smith's argument on the nation. This paper focuses on the extent to which the hierarchical relationship that Smith locates between a nation's core ethnie and subordinate ethnies remains valid in the postwar United States.
The findings can be summarized into two points : 1) the Act of 1948 verifies Smith's theory of hierarchical nation building, as seein in the clear segmentation of ethnies that placed Japanese Americans as a peripheral ethnie in a relatively lower social position; while 2) in the Act of 1988, which was passed following the social reformations of the 1960s and 1970s, some new concepts were explicitly stated to weave the memories and experiences of Japanese Americans into those of the American nation as a whole. The Act of 1988 actually intended to adopt the reconstructed concept of the nation, in which the asymmetrical relationship between ethnies was dissolved. This change can be perceived as a part of the universalization of the concept of the American nation. From these findings, this paper concludes that the primordialist tendency in the prevailing concept of the American nation had been transformed during the second half of the twentieth century.View full abstractDownload PDF (1893K) -
The Embeddedness Approach from the New Economic SociologyNaoki WAKABAYASHI2003 Volume 54 Issue 2 Pages 159-174
Published: September 30, 2003
Released on J-STAGE: October 19, 2009
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSMuch attention is drawn to an argument that social networks may influence development and performance of transactions and cooperation among firms, as many interfirm networks such as network organizations and strategic alliances recently show higher performance in market competition. Many scholars in economics, organizational theory and sociology argue that interorganizational trust is one of the critical conditions that can socially constrain opportunism in interfirm relations. The embeddedness approach from the new economic sociology reveals that social networks among organizations may facilitate the development of interorganizational trust with special relational and structural conditions such as high reciprocity and distributions of reputation. The aim of this paper is to review how the embeddedness approach explains the mechanism in which the special properties of social networks facilitate the development and the decline of interorganizational trust, by using the common concepts from the social exchange theory in, and to show that special relational and structural properties of social networks may facilitate its development.
The embeddedness approach focuses on the structural effects of social networks among organizations on interorganizational trust in relational and structural dimensions, which are also known as “relational” and “structural embeddedness.” First, if social networks among organizations exhibit strong cohesion, they also have high reciprocity which is likely to facilitate firms to make a long-term commitment to their cooperation and “relational trust.” Second, if social networks have high density or many third-party mediations, they enjoy a great distribution of reputation that may encourage firms to share similar expectations for other companies, thus developing a “system-level trust.” Therefore, the embeddedness approach can explain how social networks affect the governance of economic exchange among firms through the development and the decline of interorganizational trust.View full abstractDownload PDF (1930K) -
A Comparative Analysis of Reporting by Newspapers and Messages in BBS on the Defeat Campaign of KoreaSang-Jip KIM2003 Volume 54 Issue 2 Pages 175-191
Published: September 30, 2003
Released on J-STAGE: October 19, 2009
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSIn the changing world the methods of persuasion and social changes are as diverse as the media and information technology we are developing.
Computer-mediated communication is an exponentially growing and constantly evolving phenomenon. As a subject of inquiry it encompasses the individual, group, organizational, social, and cultural levels of analysis. The computer as a medium fosters new forms and supports established modes of social interaction. It enables novel forms of creativity, and is used to express intimate messages.
The computer-mediated communication network literally constitutes a new environment of the media.
The purpose of this paper is to describe and analyze the Korean press and the Internet activities of Citizen's Defeat Campaign for the general election held on April 13, 2000 in Korea.We discuss the interaction between the Internet as a medium and reporting by newspapers and its influence on the public sphere formed. Especially, I focus on a comparative analysis of the contents of newspaper reports and messages in BBS on the Citizen's Defeat Campaign of Korea.
As a result, the newspaper was using discussions on the Internet as a primary information source. On the contrary, discussions on the Internet had influenced the newspaper too. Moreover, such interaction between the Internet and reporting by newspapers influenced the reporting by newspapers about the Citizen's Defeat Campaign of Korea.
In this paper I point out the necessity of an approach for the interaction between the Internet and the mass media on the formation of the public sphere.View full abstractDownload PDF (1785K) -
[in Japanese]2003 Volume 54 Issue 2 Pages 192-199
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[in Japanese]2003 Volume 54 Issue 2 Pages 200-203
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[in Japanese]2003 Volume 54 Issue 2 Pages 204-206
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[in Japanese]2003 Volume 54 Issue 2 Pages 207-208
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[in Japanese]2003 Volume 54 Issue 2 Pages 209-211
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[in Japanese]2003 Volume 54 Issue 2 Pages 211-212
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[in Japanese]2003 Volume 54 Issue 2 Pages 212-214
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[in Japanese]2003 Volume 54 Issue 2 Pages 214-216
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[in Japanese]2003 Volume 54 Issue 2 Pages 216-218
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[in Japanese]2003 Volume 54 Issue 2 Pages 218-219
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[in Japanese]2003 Volume 54 Issue 2 Pages 220-221
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[in Japanese]2003 Volume 54 Issue 2 Pages 221-223
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[in Japanese]2003 Volume 54 Issue 2 Pages 223-225
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[in Japanese]2003 Volume 54 Issue 2 Pages 225-227
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[in Japanese]2003 Volume 54 Issue 2 Pages 227-228
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[in Japanese]2003 Volume 54 Issue 2 Pages 229-230
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