- 著者
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宮﨑 悠二
- 出版者
- 関東社会学会
- 雑誌
- 年報社会学論集 (ISSN:09194363)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.2022, no.35, pp.69-79, 2022-08-26 (Released:2023-08-30)
- 参考文献数
- 35
“Turning the Japanese people into a 100 million idiots (ichioku-sō-hakuchi-ka),” as insisted by Soichi Oya, is the most famous phrase critical of TV at the earliest stage of TV broadcasting in Japan. Thus far, little attention has been given to the logic of this theory. In this paper, we analyze Oya’s texts and try to reveal what kind of logic is used in the theory. As a result, we reveal that Oya’s texts are organized according to the following methods: (1) To place people, culture, and media technologies in a ranking order, (2) To assume a positive correlation between these ranks, and (3) To interpret a certain vulgar TV program as an actual appearance of the underlying pattern of problems facing Japanese society.