Sociological Theory and Methods
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Volume 22, Issue 2
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  • Special Section
    Hiroshi TAROHMARU
    2007 Volume 22 Issue 2 Pages 137-138
    Published: October 31, 2007
    Released on J-STAGE: January 08, 2008
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11218/ojjams.22.137
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  • “Freeter” Selection and a Social Network :
    From the Course Consideration Investigation of the Third Grade of High-School
    Ryushi UCHIDA
    2007 Volume 22 Issue 2 Pages 139-153
    Published: October 31, 2007
    Released on J-STAGE: January 08, 2008
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11218/ojjams.22.139
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      Recently, increase of “Freeter” becomes a social issue and studies on “Freeter” problems or Transition from school to work point out that female youths or young people whose academic background and the home background are relatively lower, so are placed in a socially disadvantageous situation becomes a “Freeter” easily. However, there are not so many studies examining factors that influence “Freeter” selection of young people.
      In this article, from the viewpoint of the relation between the “Freeter” selection and a “social network” paid attention to in recent years, I will examine whether the limited social network influences the “Freeter” selection through the questionnaire survey intended for the third grade of high-school. According to the result of this survey, network structures of students are differentiated into the “stable -- white-collar” networks and “instable -- blue-collar” ones, and relatively fewer students built into the former network select “Freeter”, and oppositely more Freeter selection occurred among the students built into “Instable and blue-collar” networks. It is quantitatively suggested that the existence of a social network into which the high school students are built greatly influenced the young people's course achievement.
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  • Unemployment Spells and Consciousness of Japanese Youth :
    Does YARITAIKOTO Shorten Job-Seek Spells?
    Hiroshi TAROHMARU, Takashi YOSHIDA
    2007 Volume 22 Issue 2 Pages 155-168
    Published: October 31, 2007
    Released on J-STAGE: January 08, 2008
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11218/ojjams.22.155
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      It is important for the support for job seekers to correctly recognize the relationship between job-seek spells and the consciouness of job seekers. It is generally difficult to correctly estimate the relationship between them, because of the limitation of data. We estimate their relationship through merging a questionaire-survey data and its follow-up survey, cooperating with Job Cafe Kyoto. The results of proportional hazard rate models (Cox regression) shows that job seekers' self confidence or their realization of what job they want to do (YARITAIKOTO) does not have any significant effects on job-seek spells, but the deadline of employment and concrete behaviors for job seek shorten job-seek spells.
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  • Views on Youth Job Satisfaction of Non-regular Employment :
    Focusing on Single Male Non-regular Employees
    Satoshi OKABE
    2007 Volume 22 Issue 2 Pages 169-187
    Published: October 31, 2007
    Released on J-STAGE: January 08, 2008
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11218/ojjams.22.169
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      Since 1990's in Japan, the increase of non-regular employment in youth has had a great impact on the way of getting their achievement of their social status. Ever since then, a lot of studies focusing on the differences among youth, such as income gap, have been provided, whereas studies about consciousness or sense of values of youth are relatively few. In this paper, I pay an attention to job satisfaction of Japanese youth and try to find determinant factors of their job satisfaction. As a result, job satisfaction of single male non-regular employees remains at the lowest level among young people. The youth belonging to this category has an affinity with a jobless youth on life awareness side, and would not have enough living or educational background. Focusing on one's past experience, I found that the experience to come in contact with adults is an essential factor of job satisfaction. To solve the issues of employment in youth, it is important not only to improve the work condition of youth, but also to promote the experience to come in contact with adults at a compulsory education stage.
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  • Trends in Educational Attainment Process in Japan :
    Application of Transitions Approach
    Sohei ARAMAKI
    2007 Volume 22 Issue 2 Pages 189-203
    Published: October 31, 2007
    Released on J-STAGE: January 08, 2008
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11218/ojjams.22.189
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      Applying Mare model, educational transitions researches indicate that the effect of social origins declines with successive transitions. This article examines whether this gradual decrease phenomenon has been observed in Japanese educational attainment process, using SSM survey data, and demonstrates the link between the trends in educational attainment process and educational expansion. Main results are as follows: 1. Gradual decrease phenomenon has only been seen during pre-war period. 2. According to the mass entry to secondary education, inequality in secondary education had been decreased during pre-war period, although previous research deduced such decrease might occur in response to post-war educational expansion. 3. These results suggest that the odds-ratios for a rare transition increase because of the preemption of rare goods by upper classes. 4. Although MMI hypothesis insists that saturation of a given level of education for the upper classes may cause the decrease the odds-ratios, it was not always true in the case of Japanese educational opportunity.
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  • Reducing Free-riders in Modern Organizations :
    How do Partner Change Costs Promote Cooperative Behavior?
    Masayuki KANAI, Jun KOBAYASHI, Hirokuni OURA
    2007 Volume 22 Issue 2 Pages 205-225
    Published: October 31, 2007
    Released on J-STAGE: January 08, 2008
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11218/ojjams.22.205
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      We examine the mechanism of reducing free-riders in “associations.” Associations are popular in modern societies, such as business firms or nonprofit organizations. We investigate conditions of reducing free-riders when there are enough such organizations and people can move between them if they want. Note that it costs to move.
      We show four theoretical findings. (1) Lower partner change costs are indispensable for the evolution of cooperation. (2) Interactions should be repeated sufficiently many times. (3) The more benefits individual cooperation provides to the organization, the more likely the cooperative behavior evolves. (4) With partner change costs, cooperative behavior can evolve even when the group size is large (theoretically infinitely large).
      To test these findings, we analyze survey data on job change in Japan. They are mostly supported.
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