著者

金井 啓子

出版者

近畿大学総合社会学部

雑誌

近畿大学総合社会学部紀要 = Applied Sociology Research Review KINDAI UNIVERSITY (ISSN:21866260)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.5, no.1, pp.35-44, 2016-09-30

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On May 17, 2015, Osaka City held a referendum to decide whether it should abolish the 23 administrative wards and restructure the city into several wards. Following the referendum, the author's college junior seminar students interviewed 20 members of the municipal assembly in Osaka City who belong to the Liberal Democratic Party. The author wrote a report based on the interviews and submitted it to the Osaka City branch of the LDP on September 23. The referendum was quite important because it could be used as a simulation for a possible referendum in the future by the whole nation to decide whether Japan should revise the Constitution. In this paper, the author examines how the students prepared for the interviews, how the interviews were conducted, what the interviewers and interviewees perceived the whole project, and what lessons the author learned during the process.

著者

辻 竜平

出版者

近畿大学総合社会学部

雑誌

近畿大学総合社会学部紀要 = Applied Sociology Research Review KINDAI UNIVERSITY (ISSN:21866260)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.8, no.2, pp.29-38, 2020-03-31

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[Abstract]This paper examined the following hypothesis such that when the father’s social status is higher than the child’s, the child evaluates his/her social position higher than his/her own; however, if the gap is too large, the child lowers his/her evaluation. Using SSM 2015 data, fractional polynomial regression analysis was conducted. The results supported the hypothesis. Therefore, if the child is able to utilize more economic affluence, social capital, and/or cultural capital of the father, he/she may enjoy the benefits and regards his/her social status higher. However, if the gap between the father and the child is too large, the child feels embarrassed and lowers his/her evaluation of social status.

著者

石井 隆之

出版者

近畿大学総合社会学部

雑誌

近畿大学総合社会学部紀要 = Applied Sociology Research Review KINDAI UNIVERSITY (ISSN:21866260)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.6, no.1, pp.41-52, 2017-10-30

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[Abstract] The notion of religious barriers plays a significant role in dividing many physical areas into sacred and secular spaces. This paper explores a possibility of establishing a new notion of time-related religious barriers formed by language in contrast to the ordinary space-related barriers, by focusing on a popular Japanese expression “Itadakimasu,” which is uttered by most Japanese before they eat. Moreover, I will seek for the logical descriptions of the impacts of words uttered by speakers on individuals’ psychological barriers, which I regard as a form of religious barriers in this paper. Furthermore, the paper also aims at giving principled explanation to grammatical mechanisms found in the Japanese language under the religious barrier-based framework.

著者

本岡 寛子 植田 恵未 大対 香奈子 堀田 美保 直井 愛里

出版者

近畿大学総合社会学部

雑誌

近畿大学総合社会学部紀要 = Applied Sociology Research Review KINDAI UNIVERSITY (ISSN:21866260)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.8, no.1, pp.1-11, 2019-09-30

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[Abstract]In recent years, while the number of students entering to universities has continuously increased, 20 to 30% of those have dropped out before graduation (Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, 2014). Unwilling admission tends to cause maladaptation to university life. Nevertheless, some of those with unwillingness seem to improve their expectations and images about their own universities, leading to complete their courses and feeling high satisfaction. The purpose of this study was to examine the changes in the students, concerning their images and expectations about their universities, their group identity, and their adaptation levels to university life, and to clarify the relationships among these factors. We conducted a series of survey for the first-year students at three times during their first semester. Results shows that the students with high willingness to enter the university were likely to have positive images and high expectations about their university, and to show high group identity and good adaptation to university life. By the end of the semester, their enlarged social network had strong influences on their adaptations to university life through their attachment to the other university members.