Basic Research on a Political Sociological Approach to Sexuality

• Project/Area Number: 05801024
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: 社会学(含社会福祉関係)
• Research Institution: Tokyo Metropolitan University
• Principal Investigator: SHIINO Nobuo Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.The Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, assistatn, 人文学部, 助手 (50206041)
• Project Period (FY): 1993 – 1995
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 1995)
• Budget Amount: ¥1,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000); Fiscal Year 1995: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000); Fiscal Year 1994: ¥600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000); Fiscal Year 1993: ¥700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000)
• Keywords: Sex / Sexuality / Politics / Sociology / Modern Society / Discourse / Corpus / Archives / 性 / 権力 / 社会的構成 / 日本社会 / 政治社会学

Research Abstract

This study aimed at basic research on a political sociological approach to sexuality. What the political sociological approach means by sexuality is not `sex` as natural (sientific) fact to be discovered, but sexuality as social construct to be invented ; or not biological, physiological, and physical 'entity' , but the produst of social, cultural, and historical factors. This basic research prepares for social analysis of political and powerful states of sexual phenomena in Japanese modern society. Concretely put, this study collects, arranges and makes available research corpus.
Two years were spent to concretely establish the orientation of this study's purpose and design. This year, this study undertook to collect, arrange and make available research corpus. Finally, it made a report to avail itself of this corpus.