Research activity information

• Émile Boutmy et Sciences Po

  SHIRATORI Yoshihiko

  Nov. 2022, 社会学雑誌, 39, 133 - 140, Japanese

  [Invited]


• フランスの高等教育制度と大学の設置形態

  白鳥 義彦

  Sep. 2010, 『大学の設置形態に関する調査研究―国立大学財務・経営センター研究報告第13号』, 91-110頁, Japanese

  Scientific journal


• Summary of the chairperson of the conference of the annual congress: "Evaluation of universities and the politics of the contract in France"

  SHIRATORI YOSHIHIKO

  Mar. 2006, Annual of the French-Japanese society of the sciences of education, 第12号, Japanese

  International conference proceedings


• Chinese immigrants in France

  SHIRATORI YOSHIHIKO

  Nov. 2005, Intriguing ASIA, 81号、162-179頁, Japanese

  Scientific journal


• Espinas's discussion on education - with relation to Durkheim's discussion on education

  SHIRATORI YOSHIHIKO

  Mar. 2004, Annual of the French-Japanese society of the sciences of education, 第10号(通巻番号No.32)、111-121頁, Japanese

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Durkheim's Discussion on the University :in Relation to the Higher Education Reforms under the Third Republic

  Shiratori Yoshihiko

  France became a substantial modern nation-state during the Third Republic by making public elementary education, "secular, compulsory, and free of charge". In addition to this, the reforms in higher education were essential for the reconstruction of the country which had been defeated in Franco-Prussian war. Placed in this social background, this article focuses on Dukheim's descussion of the University in relation to the higher education reforms of that time. In fact, he represented the "New Sorbonne" in 1900 s with other professors.By examining his discussion, we can understand the ideas behind the reforms and the image of the Universtity at the time. The University differed from the "Grandes Écoles" which provided professional education. The University was considered the place for the "sciences", which had the role of enhancing social solidarity. In this context, Durkheim's sociology was institutionalized, introduced into the University system as one of these sciences. In this discussion, the nature of his sociology is made clearer.

  The Japan Sociological Society, Jun. 1995, Japanese sociological review, 46(1) (1), 46 - 61, Japanese


• Emile Durkheim at the Time of First World War : Theoretical Criticism of Treitschke's State Theory

  Shiratori Yoshihiko

  During the Third Republic, France finally became a veritable "nation-state". This was illustrated by a series of national education reformes founded on three principles : 'freedom from religion, free of charge, compulsory'.
  In the presence of these circumstances, Émile Durkheim, whose studies in sociology ultimately concerned the stability of French society, took an interest in State theory, particulary from the moral perspective.
  With the outbreak of the First World War, Durkheim returned to his reflections on State theory. In 1915, he wrote a pamphlet entitled "L' Allemagne au = dessus de tout (Germany above all)". In this text, he criticized Treitschke's idea of the State. According to Durkheim, his idea was embodied in the maxim, 'The State is Power', quite the opposite of Durkheim's interpretation of State. This criticism can be placed in the context of the development of Durkheim's State theory.
  From his discussion of the First World War, we can see the tight linkage between Durkheim' s theoretical interests and the practical problems of the times.

  The Japan Sociological Society, Mar. 1993, Japanese sociological review, 43(4) (4), 436 - 450,497, Japanese

• La naissance des sciences sociales dans l’empire colonial britannique

  Gildas SALMON, traduit par SHIRATORI Yoshihiko

  Dec. 2023, Sociological Review of Kobe University, (40), 172 - 182, Japanese


• Naissance de l’analyse structurale des mythes : Durkheim, Granet, Lévi-Strauss

  Gildas SALMON, traduit par SHIRATORI Yoshihiko

  Dec. 2023, Sociological Review of Kobe University, (40), 149 - 171, Japanese


• Solidarité mécanique et solidarité organique chez les modernes et les non-modernes : Bourdieu et la crise de l'évolutionnisme

  Gildas SALMON, traduit par SHIRATORI Yoshihiko

  Nov. 2023, Revue de la Société Japono-française de Sociologie, (34), 177 - 202, Japanese


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  SHIRATORI Yoshihiko

  Nov. 2022, 科研費基盤研究B（22H00904）2022年度～2025年度「『集合意識』から『情動の社会学」』へ―デュルケーム社会学の現代的展開―」ホームページ、https://avecdurkheim.com/reading.html, Japanese


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  SHIRATORI Yoshihiko

  Nov. 2022, 社会学雑誌, (39) (39), 3 - 5, Japanese

  [Invited]


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  SHIRATORI Yoshihiko

  09 Jul. 2022, 図書新聞, (3550) (3550), 5 - 5, Japanese

  [Invited]


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  SHIRATORI Yoshihiko

  Jun. 2022, 社会学評論, 73(1) (1), 74 - 75, Japanese

  [Invited]


• Some characteristics of the evaluation of unversities in France-with a special regard on the CNE

  SHIRATORI YOSHIHIKO

  Nov. 2006, ARESER JP Newsletter, 第6号、3-6頁, Japanese

  Report scientific journal


• On the Institut universitaire de France

  SHIRATORI YOSHIHIKO

  Mar. 2006, Annual of the French-Japanese society of the sciences of education, 第12号, Japanese

  Introduction scientific journal

• 共生の人文学―グローバル時代と多様な文化―

  KUGE Masafumi, 羽地 亮, 大坪 庸介, 長坂 一郎, 茶谷 直人, 河島 真, 濱田 麻矢, 樋口 大祐, YOKOTA TAKASHI, 真下 裕之, KOYAMA KEIKO, 白鳥 義彦

  Others, 神戸大学, Mar. 2008, Japanese, 共生倫理研究会編集。総頁数262頁。第6章「『国民的共生』と天皇制―美濃部憲法学における絶対君主と立憲君主の『和解』―」(107-125頁)を執筆。美濃部達吉の憲法学説がなぜ大日本帝国憲法の正統な解釈として承認されるに至ったか、その論理を考察した。

  Scholarly book


• Naissance of the "Intellectuals" 1880-1900

  SHIRATORI YOSHIHIKO

  Single translation, Fujiwara Shoten, Jun. 2006, Japanese

  Scholarly book


• Invitation to the French Studies, Chapter 2, Education in France

  SHIRATORI YOSHIHIKO

  Single work, Kwansei Gakuin University Press, Oct. 2004, Japanese

  Scholarly book


• The contemporary sociologies

  SHIRATORI YOSHIHIKO

  Joint translation, Fujiwara Shoten, Apr. 2004, Japanese

  Scholarly book

• Is emotion a culture?

  SHIRATORI Yoshihiko

  The Seventh Global Creative Industries Conference, Nov. 2023

  Oral presentation


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  SHIRATORI Yoshihiko

  第９５回日本社会学会, Nov. 2022


• Institutional evolutions on the higher education and research in France

  SHIRATORI YOSHIHIKO

  2006 Annual Congress of the French-Japanese society of the sciences of education, Oct. 2006, Japanese, 日仏教育学会, Kobe University, Domestic conference

  Oral presentation


• The evaluation system of the higher education in France

  SHIRATORI YOSHIHIKO

  58th Annual Congress of the Japan Society of Educational Sociology, Sep. 2006, Japanese, 日本教育社会学会, Osaka Kyoiku University, Domestic conference

  Oral presentation


• Manga : A media of sub-culture or counter-culture ?

  SHIRATORI YOSHIHIKO

  First Gathering of the « MANGA NETWORK », May 2006, English, Center for international study and research(CERI), Sciences Po, Paris, Center for international study and research(CERI), Sciences Po, Paris, International conference

  Oral presentation


• Evaluation of universities in France

  SHIRATORI YOSHIHIKO

  The 3rd symposium of the ARESER Japan, Mar. 2006, Japanese, ARESER Japan, Maison franco-japonaise, Domestic conference

  Invited oral presentation


• Epistemological social recognition in "The rules of sociological method"

  SHIRATORI YOSHIHIKO

  78th Annual Congress of the Japan Sociological Society, Oct. 2005, Japanese, The Japan Sociological Society, Hosei University, Domestic conference

  Oral presentation


• Some aspects on contemporary higher education in France

  SHIRATORI YOSHIHIKO

  57th Annual Congress of the Japan Society of Educational Sociology, Sep. 2005, Japanese, The Japan Society of Educational Sociology, The University of the Air, Domestic conference

  Oral presentation


• Some Perspectives for Research on Immigration

  SHIRATORI YOSHIHIKO

  37th World Congress, International Institute of Sociology, Jul. 2005, English, International Institute of Sociology/The Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden, International conference

  Oral presentation


• Sociology and Geography

  SHIRATORI YOSHIHIKO

  77th Annual Congress of the Japan Sociological Society, Nov. 2004, Japanese, 日本社会学会, Kumamoto University, Domestic conference

  Oral presentation


• Recent Reforms on French Higher Education

  SHIRATORI YOSHIHIKO

  56th Annual Congress of the Japan Society of Educational Sociology, Sep. 2004, Japanese, 日本教育社会学会, Tohoku University, Domestic conference

  Oral presentation


• The Multiformity of Identity: Cases of the Chinese in France

  SHIRATORI YOSHIHIKO

  36th World Congress, International Institute of Sociology, Jul. 2004, Japanese, International Institute of Sociology, Institute of Sociology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China, International conference

  Oral presentation


• Ethnicity and Identity: From a Research on the Chinese in France

  SHIRATORI YOSHIHIKO

  COE International Conference, "The possibility of emergency theory on comparative normes", Jul. 2004, English, 「市場化社会の法動態学」研究センター, Kobe University, International conference

  Oral presentation

• 日本高等教育学会


• 日仏教育学会


• 日本教育社会学会


• 日本社会学会

• 東アジアにおける外国ルーツの子どもの「育ち」の総合的研究：国際結婚調査の10年後

  白鳥 義彦

  日本学術振興会, 科学研究費助成事業, 基盤研究(A), 神戸大学, 01 Apr. 2025 - 31 Mar. 2030


• 「集合意識」から「情動の社会学」へ－デュルケーム社会学の現代的展開

  小川 伸彦, 白鳥 義彦, 山田 陽子, 横山 寿世理, 梅村 麦生

  日本学術振興会, 科学研究費助成事業 基盤研究(B), 基盤研究(B), 奈良女子大学, Apr. 2022 - Mar. 2026


• Comparative History of the Relationship on the Interpenetration between Universities and Cities in Japan and France

  大前 敦巳, 岡山 茂, 田川 千尋, 白鳥 義彦, 山崎 晶子, 木方 十根, 隠岐 さや香, 上垣 豊, 中村 征樹

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Joetsu University of Education, Apr. 2022 - Mar. 2025


• 福祉国家以前と以後の政治テクノロジー：仏19世紀以降の刑罰・公教育・社会的保護

  前川 真行, 北垣 徹, 白鳥 義彦, 中村 征樹, 村澤 真保呂

  日本学術振興会, 科学研究費助成事業 基盤研究(C), 基盤研究(C), 大阪府立大学, Apr. 2020 - Mar. 2023

  本科研共同研究の二年目にあたる本年度は、一年目の基礎研究を受けて、つごう７回の研究会を開催し、各研究分担者による担当部分についての研究の深化、その報告が行われた。新型肺炎の流行により、研究会としては共同研究者以外にも範囲を広げつつも、やむを得ず、遠隔のみでの開催となった。 ただし個別研究の進展はそれぞれに順調に進み、研究成果の中間報告として、共同で成果報告を行うこととし、年度の半ばからは、それぞれの研究の報告会を行うこととなった。 中村はCh. Dupin によるいわゆる職人層への社会教育としての科学／工学教育の実践を、また白鳥はCNAM, Science-Poなど、いわゆるGrands ecoles についての報告を行った。また本年より研究協力者として定藤博子（阪南大学）、渡邊拓也（大谷大学）の参加を得て、それぞれ前者によりポーランド労働移民についての、後者にはダルマーニュを中心に人格概念の形成について報告を行った。さらに北垣はFustel de Coulange を取り上げ19世紀の家族概念について、前川は前年度に引き続きFoucault を中心に刑事政策について理論的検討を行った。以上の成果の一部は、神戸大学社会学研究会『社会学雑誌』no. 39（印刷中）で公表される予定である。 共同研究全体としては、19世紀における社会概念の多様性により注目が向けられ、いわゆる非国家的側面、すなわち人格、家族（家）、そして宗教の果たした役割に関心が集まり、これらは引き続き次年度の課題となるった。


• Higher Education Reform and Humanities-Comparative study on Japan and France

  白鳥 義彦, 岡山 茂, 大前 敦巳, 上垣 豊, 隠岐 さや香, 中村 征樹

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Kobe University, Apr. 2019 - Mar. 2023, Principal investigator

  本年度も、本科研費の研究課題として設定している、2010年代後半以降の今日における日本とフランスの高等教育改革それ自体についての研究という第一の水準（具体的な論点として、①「大衆化」と「卓越化」との二律背反への対処、②大学と教養教育／職業教育、③高大接続の新たな展開、④「大学界」という視点、⑤全般的背景としての高等教育改革の歴史的展開過程、を設定している）、日仏両国における高等教育改革の、人文学に対する影響についての比較考察という第二の水準、さらに、より抽象的なレベルで「モデルの伝播」という概念を両国の高等教育改革から引き出し、人文学研究への普遍的な応用を考えるという第三の水準について、着実に研究を進めていった。またそれらを、具体的な形での研究成果として、論文、学会発表等という形で積極的に公表することができた。とりわけ日仏教育学会2021年度研究大会では本科研メンバーが中心となってシンポジウムを企画し、報告者、指定討論者となるとともに、フランスからの研究者のオンラインでの参加を実現した。またこれまでに引き続いて、「人文学」のあり方そのものを考察の対象とするという本科研費研究の基本的な問題関心に沿いながら、科学史や社会学や歴史学をはじめとする諸学問そのものについてや、社会における学問の位置等についての論究も、複数公刊することができた。さらに、書評、新刊紹介や古典再訪といった形で、研究状況のレビューも複数公刊している。


• Empirical Research on Demographic Family Sociology in Japan between 1720 and the Present

  HIRAI Shoko

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Kobe University, Apr. 2017 - Mar. 2020

  This research has sought to identify a new theory of family change by combining early modern and modern theories of family demography, which previously have been discussed under a different framework. New insight has been gained on a wide range issues relating to long term demographic change, including the particularly striking increase in population and birth rate in the Tohoku region, even before the Meiji Restoration from the middle of the 19th century; the increase through these demographic conditions before the modern period of families forming ie and its subsequent standardisation; from the modern period onward the decrease in the death and divorce rate as part of an increase in the realisation of ie as a desirable outcome and the increasingly fixed nature of ie membership; and, with the stability brought about by modern ie as part of this change, the shift toward the existence of the restricted individual.

  Competitive research funding


• How can Sociology be Regenerated as a Discipline--Quest through Durkheimian Case

  NAKAJIMA MICHIO, AKABA yu, ADACHI satoshi, IKEDA yoshifusa, UMEZAWA sei, UMEMURA mugio, OGINO masahiro, KASAGI jo, KAWAMOTO ayaka, KIN ei, SUGITANI takenobu, HAYAMI nanako, MIZOGUCHI daisuke, MURATA kayoko, YOKOI toshihide, YOSHIMOTO soichi

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Nara Women's University, Apr. 2015 - Mar. 2019

  Today, sociology is facing a crisis. Crisis in which its uniqueness as a discipline becoming vague, power to appeal itself to the outer world getting weak and the number of sociology students turns out be less and less. To cope with this crisis on a fundamental level, it is necessary to deepen a "self-reflexive sociology" which elucidates the construction process and deployment of sociology. For this purpose, the sociology we focused on was that of Emile DURKHEIM with the following perspectives: 1) how he succeeded in establishing the discipline in France, 2) how his sociology was interpreted and transmitted by the subsequent generations, 3) how his sociology was accepted outside France, and 4) what kind of sociology education has been and should be done. During four years of study, we succeeded to produce 25 article and three books. On top of that, we are now getting ready to publish two books, one is an academic research work and the other a textbook on E. Durkheim.


• Comparative Study on Higher Education Reform in Japan and France

  SHIRATORI Yoshihiko, CHARLE Christophe, SOULIÉ Charles, NEYRAT Frédéric

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Kobe University, Apr. 2014 - Mar. 2017, Principal investigator

  We have conducted our comparative research on higher education reform in Japan and France focusing on the five themes we have set: (1) conflict of trade-off between "popularization" and "excellence", (2) "liberalization" policy of higher education and the question of governance, (3) aspects of university evaluation, (4) relation between liberal arts education and career education, (5) the process of historical development of higher education reform as a general background of those. We were able to obtain research results, in particular, on the common points and differences of higher education in these two countries which are considered centralized state; on the common points and differences of the way of higher education reform in Japan and France at the end of the 19th century, after the World War II, at the end of the 1960s and especially in recent years.

  Competitive research funding


• Transnational Marriage and Reformation of 'Local World' in Contemporary East Asia

  FUJII MASARU, NAGASAKA Itaru, SHUTO Toshikazu, FUKUDA Satoshi, OKUI Asako, SASAKI Tasaku, SASAKI Mamoru, REN Kyohin, KO Gengen

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Kobe University, Apr. 2013 - Mar. 2017

  Based on questionnaire surveys and interviews on 'North-South' transnational marriage at local societies in Japan, Korea and Taiwan, transformation in 'reproductive sphere', commonality and diversity among three societies, different characteristics between Chinese and Southeast Asian wives have been clarified. And, based on interviews with parents and close relatives of female marriage emigrants at local societies in Northeast China, Philippines, and Thailand, the following has been disclosed: unique development of transnational marriage in each local society, strong tie between a marriage emigrant and her family of orientation, and importance of her influence on a local society she was grown up especially in cases of Southeast Asian women. Furthermore, 'North' and 'South' in East Asia are not connected in a simple way by transnational marriage, because female marriage emigrants from Thailand and some countries in Southeast Asia often migrate globally beyond East Asia.

  Competitive research funding


• Comparative Study on the Interaction between Academic Managers and Administrative Managers

  KAWASHIMA Tatsuo, HIRATA Mitsuko, OGATA Naoyuki, SHIRATORI Yoshihiko, MOROZUMI Akiko, YAMAMOTO Kiyoshi, YONEZAWA Akiyoshi, FUKUDOME Hideto, MARUYAMA Fumihiro, SATO Ikuya, WATANABE Yoshie, TOSHIKAWA Yumiko

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Oct. 2012 - Mar. 2016

  In the rapid changing environments, universities are facing the challenges to reform both of governance and management. This study focused on the aspect of management and tried to analyze the interaction between "academic managers" such as president, vice president and deans and "administrative managers" such as the secretary general, registrar,and the financial director through the international comparison. As a result, we found as follows. First at the foreign universities, managerial positions are more differentiated functionally than Japanese universities. Second, however, the functional areas in which both managers may affect their authority and power are compatible between Japanese universities and foreign universities. Finally, the most striking difference is the way to acquire their capabilities to perform. While managers at foreign universities acquired through education and training, Japanese counterparts mostly did through experiences.

  Competitive research funding


• A Comparative Sociological Study of Examinations as Institutions of "Ability"

  ONAKA Fumiya, OKAWA Kiyotake, SHIRATORI Yoshihiko, AIZAWA Shinichi

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Japan Women's University, 2011 - 2013

  The main purpose of this research is to investigate a sociological meaning of the new institutions of "ability" after the 1980s, under the understanding that examinations are institutions of "ability", by the method of "thick comparison" with historical perspective and socio-cultural network analysis using local daily newspapers and interviews with important persons of England, France, Thailand, and Japan. In conclusion, the remarkable characteristic of these new concepts of "ability" is that they are distant from the institutions of examination and that they have indirect connection to them through the concept of "education" and through the social actors including the government and schools, rather than universities.


• Interdisciplinary comparative study on higher education reform in Japan and France

  SHIRATORI Yoshihiko, OKAYAMA Shigeru, OMAE Atsumi, NAKAMURA Masaki, FUJIMOTO Kazuisa, OKI Sayaka, UEGAKI Yutaka

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Kobe University, 2011 - 2013, Principal investigator

  We have been doing comparative research between Japan and France on three main themes which we have posed as our point of study: 1)resolution of dichotomy between "tendency to mass" and "pursuit of excellence" of higher education, 2)impacts of the "liberalization" policy of higher education, 3)significance of liberal arts and general education. We have found that the essential and principal questions on the higher education reform -- what kind of higher education, or more generally, what kind of society is aimed for by the reform -- have not been discussed and reflected enough in both countries. We have inquired into actual research themes by setting this fundamental problem as the common basis for our study.

  Competitive research funding


• Study on Basic Structure, Dynamics, and Sustainable Development of 'Local World' in East Asia

  FUJII Masaru, SASAKI Mamoru, SHUTO Toshikazu, KOBAYASHI Kazumi, NO Zewon, OKUI Asako, TAKAI Yasuhiro, FUKUDA Satoshi, TAKEUCHI Takao, HASHIMOTO Hiroko, KASHINAGA Masao, NAGASAKA Itaru, KUSAKA Wataru, KUROYAGI Haru, KITAHARA Atsushi, HASHIMOTO Takashi, YUI Kiyomitsu, SHIRATORI Yoshihiko

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Kobe University, 2007 - 2010

  This research has investigated logics of formation, characteristics of contemporary change, and possibility and tasks of sustainable development of local societies in East Asia from the viewpoint of 'local world'. Villages and local cities (towns) in East Asia have never been opposed to each other, but organic relationships between them, standing upon historical and cultural traditions, in each local society, have been formed. And 'Local world' has been created on this basis. Therefore, not only prosperity and regeneration of villages, but also those of local cities (towns) and relationships between them, are indispensable for affluent development of local societies and East Asia itself.

  Competitive research funding


• Interdisciplinary academic research abroad on "associations"

  SHIRATORI Yoshihiko, YUI Kiyomitsu, SATO Hikari, MASHITA Hiroyuki, KOYAMA Keiko, HIGUCHI Daisuke

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Kobe University, 2007 - 2010, Principal investigator

  The aim of this research project is to shed light on the significance of "associations" in society on the interdisciplinary common base of the humanities-sociology, literature and history. Our main research fields are France, UK, India, USA and Japan. By applying a wider concept of "associations", we have brought to light the diversity of "associations" and the validity of the frame of "associations" for the research on human activities in society. Taking into consideration the context of the historical development as well as the comparative point of view of localities, we have clarified the importance of "associations" in society.

  Competitive research funding


• Comparative Historical Sociology of Discourses of "The Times" on Examinations

  ONAKA Fumiya, OKAWA Kiyotake, SHIRATORI Yoshihiko

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Japan Women's University, 2007 - 2009

  This research is an experimental study on comparative sociology based on historical method using newspapers as the main source of data. It revealed that ; (1) The Japanese students' negative attitude to the entrance examination competition has changed positive around 1980's. (2) The way of publishing examination result has been different between England and Wales since 1990's. (3) In the change of examination system during this ninety years, quantitative points of view has gradually been strengthened. (4) This change has relations to a gradual incorporation of the examination system into the whole education system in England, while it is related to a gradual separation in Japan. It suggested that the viewpoint of "articles" is more effective than that of "discourses" in this type of research. It also suggested "comparison with the Japan-case" and "socio-cultural network analysis" as methods of analysis.


• Reconstruction and practical development of Parsons's theory by applying unpublished / newly found materials

  YUI Kiyomitsu, HARIE Hironao, SHINDO Yuzo, SUZUKI Takeshi, NAKAMURA Bunya, SHIRATORI Yoshihiko, VICTOR Lidz, BRYAN Turner

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Kobe University, 2005 - 2008

  パーソンズ理論を、未公刊・新資料を活用する近年の水準において再構成し、その現代社会分析に対する実践的応用可能性をいくつかの領域において示すという課題を、一定程度達成した。医療・生命研究、グローバル化と宗教、知の生産様式と大学、社会学的公共性論の構築という夫々の課題領域において一定の成果を得、とくにそれら全体の統一的基礎理論をなす、規範生成論において前進した。

  Competitive research funding


• Comparative Sociological Study on Higher Education and Research System

  SHIRATORI Yoshihiko, YUI Kiyomitsu

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Kobe University, 2005 - 2007, Principal investigator

  An overall analysis was being deepened aiming at doing a comparative study on the contemporary higher education of France, Japan and United States, with a point of view based on historical development in each countries. we have also carried out necessary field researches in Japan and in abroad. Recent days' higher education and research system in each country are universally pursuing to correspond contradictory directions as open-door-to-all policy (rise of the number of students and expansion of student layer)and pursuit of excellence (becoming an internationally excellent research institute which can accomplish internationally recognized research achievement). We can find a common direction in France and in Japan, such as concentration of power in the hands of university president, participation of outside persons in university operation, and rise of the importance of evaluation in higher education. With confirming such universal flow, we also have to reflect the essential meaning of the higher education and the research. We could grasp the importance of the point of view which makes the trend of the recent years clear as well as is asking those essential ideas concerning the higher education and the research system through this research. Our research achievement was published and presented by books, articles and academic meeting presentations, etc. during study duration concerned, and we can mention the publications of "Naissance of "intellectuals" 1880-1900" (Christoph Charle work, Yoshihiko Shiratori translation, Fujiwara Shoten, 2006) and of Sociological Review of Kobe University, No.25 (2008), edited by Shiratori, which features "Questions on Higher Education Reform" through international comparative research on the higher education and the research system in France, United Kingdom and Japan, etc. as important outcome in particular of our research.

  Competitive research funding


• Comparative sociological research on trans-national migration, ethnicity and reconstruction of communities.

  SASAKI Mamoru, IWASAKI Nobuhiko, YUI Kiyomitu, FUJII Masaru, SHIRATORI Yoshihiko, TAKAI Yasuhiro

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Kobe University, 2003 - 2006

  1, Outline of the subjects We have carried researches on the dynamic changes of ethnic identities and reconstruction of communities, which were brought about by the movement and migration of two areas in Asia. The main regions of the study were: Eastern Asian region, specifically China and the Korean Peninsula, and the region that includes Thailand and its neighboring areas. We also conducted a study on the Asian immigrants to France and Canada, in order to compare with the two regions of interest. 2, Outline of the research findings (1)The importation of foreign workers to Eastern countries has been steadily expanding, which causes a delay in the institutional correspondence. Therefore, the conditions by which foreign workers are employed have large restrictions with respect to the social system or structure of the migrated country. Moreover, upon entering the country, they have no other choices but to depend upon the arrangements of brokers in many cases. (2)The foreign workers have not only expanded their network into the society where they migrated, but also continued to maintain a close relationship with their hometown. When the access to their native country turned into their cultural capital in the migrated country, they may display the "authenticity" of their native culture at the migrated place, as the case of the ethnic businesses of South Korean immigrants in China shows. (3)Immigrants form their community isolated from society of the migrated place in many cases. When they are placed in the inferior environment, they tend to have a strong desire to turn over their marginalized position in the society by whipping up their ethnic feeling. The case of the Korean Chinese immigrants in South Korea trying to draw a line from the main society by expressing themselves as "Chinese" who have "Korean" roots is a typical example. (4)Some research findings also revealed the different tendencies of emigrants: the emigrants from Moon tribe in Myanmar have a strong tendency to settle down in Thai society, and the Vietnamese emigrants in Northeastern Thailand have weakened their ethnic identity as a group. This research also clearly showed that even if immigrants to Thailand are under the severe conditions, they are not necessarily crushed by the misfortune. The cities where many immigrants live are developing a polygamy-like and post-authoritarian structure, and they are expanding the space in them, where immigrants can gain new life chances.

  Competitive research funding


• What were the Sixties?

  TOMINAGA Shigeki, YAMAMURO Shin'ichi, KAGOTANI Naoto, TANAKA Yuriko, FUJIHARA Tatsushi, SAITOH Hikaru

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Kyoto University, 2003 - 2004

  In this research project the head investigator and investors explored the uniqueness of the 1960's mostly in terms of people's experience of everyday life, which apparently seems then newly re-constructed deeply in relation to the changes that occurred in the systems of mass production and consumption, as well as to the outcomes of the development of technology. These close examination of factors that influence people's life style during that period led investigators to reach their research interest to the contemporary analysis on those fundamental alteration in people's life done in the 60s by various scholars with different approaches, that gave this research project another key characteristic ; the deep concern about the evolution in social sciences themselves. In addition, this concern about the evolution in the fields of sciences went on to find, as the dynamism operating under visible changes or events around the decade, the subtle relations and resonance between the intellectual history and popular experience. The head investigator and investigators have written papers respectively on their studies ; "What was the 《McLuhan》?-the 1960s and the turns in the intellect." (Tominaga), "Toward the 60s of ‘the Two' (Saitoh), "The 60s and the future of the body" (Tanaka), "The 60s and schizophrenia" (Kitagaki), "The 60s of Silent Spring and cyborgs" (Endo), "The birth of the myth of milk" (Fujihara), "Education and the human in the 60s" (Maegawa), "What left of the ‘college conflicts' in the 1960s" (Shiratori), "The 60s of the 《words and things》" (Katsurayama), " Historical meanings of the fiber trade friction between Japan and U.S. in the 60s" (Kagotani), "The suicide of Mishima Yukio" (Ohsawa), "The 60s and the history of the Japan's consciousness" (Yamamuro).


• 国境を超える移住・エスニシティ・地域社会の再構築に関する社会学的研究

  佐々木 衞, 藤井 勝, 油井 清光, 岩崎 信彦, 高井 康弘, 白鳥 義彦

  日本学術振興会, 科学研究費助成事業 基盤研究(C), 基盤研究(C), 神戸大学, 2002 - 2002

  本研究の目的は、国境を越える移住・移動を経験する人たちのエスニシティの再構成に関する研究と、移動する多様な人々が共住する地域社会の再構築に関する研究を、国際共同研究として発展させるための可能性を検討し、実現するための条件を整えるところにあった。定期的な研究会とシンポジウムを8回開催した。海外から、李路路教授(中国:中国人民大学)、マニーマイ・トンユウ教授(タイ:コーンケーン大学)、イヴ・デロア教授(フランス:ローベル・シューマン大学)が参加した。 李路路報告、マニマーイ報告、デロア報告がともに指摘した事実は、人々が就業のために国境を越えて移動する趨勢はもはや不可逆的ともいえるもので、特に、冷戦体制が崩壊した後は、一気に加速していることであった。人の移動が生み出している新たな格差や差別の問題、異質な人々が共に住む社会空間として再構築していく課題、あるいはリージョンという概念の必要性が具体的な事実から明らかにされた。また、現地調査を実施するために、調査地域を選定し研究テーマを絞り込むという本研究目的も検討することができた。 以上の研究成果をふまえて、アジアにおける対照的な2つの地域の移動・移住とエスニシティの交錯、相互認知と対抗、トランスナショナルな移動が創り出す「リージョン」に関する実証的な研究を計画している。第1の地域は、中国と朝鮮半島とが接触する中国吉林省、青島、および韓国ソウルである。第2の地域は、タイと近隣諸国の国境地域(バンコクと周辺地区、ビエンチャン・ノンカイ地区)である。当地域は、地域社会が再構築されていくダイナミックな構造をみることができるフィールドでもある。移動・移住の具体的な事例をとおして、社会変動のダイナミックな構造をも考察する。


• A Comparative Study on Relations between Universities and Non-university Institutions in Japan, the USA and European Countries

  YOSHIKAWA Yumiko, ONO Yoshio, KAMIYA Takeshi, TACHI Akira, KOBAYASHI Masayuki, HAMANAKA Yoshitaka

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), National Institution for Academic Degrees and University Evaluation, 2000 - 2002

  Non-university institutions offer more practice-oriented shorter courses and foster more specific skills than traditional universities. The graduates of these higher education institutions, however, increasingly need to continue studying and to be qualified further because knowledge and skills required in the labor market rapidly change. The demands for higher qualifications/degrees will increase in the knowledge-based society in the 21st century. Therefore it is important to arrange some devices in the education system which facilitate transfers between non-university institutions and universities. Such devices are e.g. courses of study based on credits and modules, ways of measuring and assuring the quality of courses, and last not but least system for credit transfer and accumulation as well as mutual recognition of degrees. They are well prepared in the United States where reverse transfers are also not rare cases, while students who want to transfer across states sometimes face difficulties. In Europe, the Bologna Declaration in 1999 by ministers of education had a great impact on the European countries. Many countries are now carrying out reforms in higher education to introduce credits and two-tier system with bachelor's and master's degrees. According to our survey of all four-year universities in Japan, demands for transfers are increasing, and private universities are especially positive to accept transfer students. Their behavior reflects market mechanism. In this sense, quality assurance in higher education is the issue worldwide.