著者

藤竹 暁

出版者

日本マス・コミュニケーション学会

雑誌

新聞学評論 (ISSN:04886550)

巻号頁・発行日

no.35, pp.62-73, 293-292, 1986-04-30

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There has been a new trend in the study of Japanese society. It is to analyze the characteristics of society from the viewpoint of the "mass society." Taking into consideration the findings of such studies, the author attempts in this article to examine some new features which have not been discussed in the conventional theories of the mass society. In doing so, major transformations in two aspects will be examined ; the masses on the one hand, and the influence of mass media on the other hand. The twenty years during the 1960s and 1970s, when Japan was rapidly moving into an age of affluence driven by its high economic growth, are often characterized as the age of mass-production and uniformity. In every field of media, nation-wide newspapers, magazines, television and radio have focused on particular issues which were thought to be of interest to everybody and to which people have reached in a similar way. For the first time in history, the lifestyles of people from different regions and classes have become very much alike through exposure to standardized and widespread media. As a consequence, the image of a unified mass society, as if everybody were the same, was created among scholars and researchers. In the 1980s, however, it is no longer possible for the media to exercise their power of influence by holding such an image of the Japanese. Evidence was found in every part of society that the mass society had suddenly fractionalized into many different groups of people, with different values and tastes. "Decomposition of the mass" has become a topic of discussion and some have even argued that Japanese society was not a mass society. Nevertheless, it should be pointed out that the images of the Japanese people, both old and new, are the result of oversimplification caused by the careless usage of the "mass." What has been made clear through the author's observation is that what has been taking place in this society is not the "decomposition of the mass." Instead this society is beginning to show strong signs of the "mass society." It should also be pointed out that inadequate images of the people have then led to an oversimplification of the influence of the media and the environment they create. For further continuation of the study it remains to be proved how the mass media has structuralized the information environment, and how man-media-relations, characteristic of modern society, have been formed. These are the keys to understanding how and why the new "mass society" has been formulated.

著者

石川弘義 藤竹暁 小野耕世監修

出版者

三省堂

巻号頁・発行日

1981

著者

藤竹暁編著

出版者

日本放送出版協会

巻号頁・発行日

2005

著者

藤竹 暁

出版者

The Japan Sociological Society

雑誌

社会学評論 (ISSN:00215414)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.40, no.4, pp.446-460, 1990-03-31 (Released:2010-02-19)

参考文献数

62

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清水幾太郎は、「経験」を基礎にして考え、行動した思想家であり、社会学者であった。清水幾太郎の人生とその業績を明らかにするためには、清水にとって経験とは何であったのかを、探らなければならない。本稿では、清水が社会学を志望するにいたり、そして三〇歳代前半に、環境と人間に関する清水独自の理論の骨子を形成するまでの、清水の初期の経験を考察する。まず、清水が成長過程で遭遇した個人的、社会的事件を整理し、これらの事件が、清水の思想形成において、どのような経験となったかを考える。次いでマルクス主義が支配する時代状況の下で、ドイツ形式社会学に没頭し、その非現実性に飽き足らず、オーギュスト・コントの研究へたどりつき、さらにアメリカの社会学、心理学、哲学を知るにいたって、コントの人類に関する観念を、清水独自の社会学的な人間の理論へと発展させた過程をたどりながら、清水が経験の概念を確立してゆく経緯を論ずる。それはまた、思想家そして社会学者としての清水幾太郎が、人生と社会に対して示した姿勢を明らかにすることでもある。

著者

藤竹 暁

出版者

日本社会学会

雑誌

社会学評論 (ISSN:00215414)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.64, no.3, pp.519-521, 2013 (Released:2014-12-31)