著者
田中 大介
出版者
社会学研究会
雑誌
ソシオロジ (ISSN:05841380)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.51, no.2, pp.57-73,147, 2006

This paper will use Kunio Yanagita's discourse with regard to modem transportation to consider how he formulated his folklore methodology. Because the transportation environment Yanagita addressed was in the pre-war period, this then is an historical sociological study with regard to modern transportation through Yanagita's discourse.<br> Yanagita placed a great emphasis on travel, as have the Japanese folklorists who have succeeded him. However, they have tended to underestimate modern transportation and to palace greater value on pedestrian travel. Yanagita also shared this tendency, believing that travel by railway the old folk stratum as an object of analysis and that rail travel would invalidate his analysis as well.<br> Yanagita distinguished between pedestrian travel (travail) in the early period and sightseeing, mainly using modern transportation, is seen as the golden age of travel for Yanagita and it can be said that modern/pedestrian traffic is not a choice between alternative s.<br> Then what was modern transportation, especially railway transportation, for Yanagita?<br> He regarded transportation by rail as an opportunity to travel widely and to see scenery from the "windows of trains." In this mode of travel, landscape was not "scenery as sign" (as might be found in a guidebook), but "scenery as a trace" (offering an interpretation of people's lives and history).<br> That is, Yanagita's folklore method was to collect, classify and systematize "scenery as traces" encountered during the course of his travels. Finally this paper suggests that his transportation theory and his approach to travel share a common meaning from a sociological perspective.
著者
俵 希實
出版者
社会学研究会
雑誌
ソシオロジ (ISSN:05841380)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.51, no.1, pp.69-85,210, 2006-05-31 (Released:2016-03-23)
参考文献数
29

Since the mid-1980s, the number of Japanese-Brazilian immigrants to Japan has continued to increase. Various urban and regional studies have been conducted in certain residential areas where these Japanese-Brazilian immigrants to Japan are living. The issues discussed in these studies, specifically 1)the development of Japanese-Brazilian communities and networks, 2)interpersonal and inter-group relations between Japanese-Brazilian immigrants and local Japanese residents and 3)the length of residence in Japan have all been designated as "the development of lifestyle after immigration" for the purpose of this study. Previous studies have found that the development of lifestyle varied by residential area. However, these studies have been based almost exclusively on case studies from areas of Japan with high concentrations of Japanese-Brazilian immigrants, and have relied extensively on explanations from the perspective of community studies. Therefore, in order to study more specific factors contributing to the differential conditions of Japanese-Brazilian immigrants' lifestyle development in various residential areas in Japan, and to provide an analytical framework for more comprehensive discussion, this study collected data through case studies and questionnaires in Komatsu City, Ishikawa Prefecture, where relatively few Japanese-Brazilians reside. This study also compared Komatsu with other previously studied areas with regarding to a few specific factors, and found that the development of Japanese-Brazilian communities and networks in Komatsu was comparatively weak. In addition, relations with the local Japanese residents were limited, and the length of residence was generally shorter than in the areas previously studied. This study concludes that the differences in conditions found in various residential areas can be partially attributed to the following three factors; the local concentration of Japanese-Brazilian immigrants, local differences in the immigration process, and variations in local labor markets.

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著者
臼井 二尚
出版者
社会学研究会
雑誌
ソシオロジ (ISSN:05841380)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.9, no.4, pp.201-205, 1963-03-31 (Released:2017-12-28)
著者
野島 那津子
出版者
社会学研究会
雑誌
ソシオロジ (ISSN:05841380)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.59, no.3, pp.3-19, 2015

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the difficulties when suffering from an incompletely medicalized disease and the effects of its diagnosis using the narratives of spasmodic dysphonia sufferers. Spasmodic dysphonia (SD) is a chronic voice disorder. It leads to a characteristic strained and strangled voice (Gündel et al. 2007). Its etiology is unknown and there is no fundamental treatment. In Japan, SD is a rare disease and most physicians have little experience treating it. Few physicians can diagnose SD. In addition, as SD is virtually unknown among the public, its characteristic voice is not perceived as a symptom of a disease, neither by others nor by sufferers themselves. Considering this situation, we can say that SD is an incompletely medicalized disease. While medicalization has been criticized for its aspect of social control and its tendency to individualize social problems, incomplete medicalization has been relatively less discussed and few empirical studies of those diseases have been conducted. In this paper, I focus on SD as an example of incomplete medicalization and examine the problems of incomplete medicalization from sufferer's point of view.Based on interviews with fifteen people suffering from SD, the three main difficulties identified are: an inability to explain their condition and loneliness, inappropriate definition of a SD's unique voice by others, and a visible negative reaction. One common underlying cause for these difficulties is the lack of a definitive diagnosis. Receiving a diagnosis could be an opportunity to reduce those difficulties. Obtaining a diagnosis opens possibilities of refusing incorrect interpretations, providing plausible explanations and disclosing their suffering to others. In the case of SD, I suggest that simply suffering does not constitute a "disease" in our society. Adequate medical diagnosis is a requisite condition for the social existence of the "disease."
著者
大前 敦巳
出版者
社会学研究会
雑誌
ソシオロジ (ISSN:05841380)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.36, no.3, pp.37-52,146, 1992-02-29 (Released:2017-02-15)

The purpose of this paper is to find a homology and differences of research frameworks between Pierre Bourdieu and Paul Willis, in order to turn them to practical use in Japan. Willis propounded a notion of cultural production which stresses the activities of "lads" who exercise "partial penetration". I think the reason is that, against the criticism (after the publication of Learning to Labour) which regards his model as determinism similar to Bourdieu's system, Willis wanted to declare the differences between them. However, in my view, Bourdieu's system is also far from deterministic model, because he starts with a notion of practice which explains the activities of social agents in "temporal" time as opposed to "chronologic" time. From this view point one may say that the conceputual frameworks of practice and cultural production have a homology as non-deterministic model. Then, it is important to consider one of the critical differences. It's about praxis. Bourdieu never talks about praxis, but Willis develops his analysis toward paxis which is linked with "resistance". But his argument has a contradiction, because his theoretical framework does not consider the paradox of dominated people. To avoid falling into this paradox, Bourdieu demands a preparatory analysis in order to objectify the relation between the researcher and the inguired people. Bourdieu's "counter culture" is to create the culture which can analyse the alternative opposition between "resistance" and "submission". Therefore, with regard to "counter culture", I think Bourdieu's theory of practice is more available for my purpose in spite of his difficult methodology.
著者
中 久郎
出版者
社会学研究会
雑誌
ソシオロジ (ISSN:05841380)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.38, no.1, pp.113-116, 1993