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¥2,700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,700,000)
Fiscal Year 1998: ¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000)
Fiscal Year 1997: ¥1,700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000)
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| Research Abstract |
As the first step of the study, I made a document research of doctoral theses submitted in these five years within the United States concerning the theoretical study of power. About 30 theses were collected by air cargo and investigated in detail. As a result, I found the recent direction of research in this field, namely, they are dealing with the empirical analysis of the function of power in administration organizations, ethnomethodoligical approach of micro-working of power, and the documental research of the historical development of the idea of power.
Next, I set forth the theoretical investigations on power which is the main part of this study. Pointing out the limits of the approaches such as expectation theory, social systems theory, game theory and so on, I formalized the concept of power as a special case of micro-macro link in a society. Thus, I successfully traced the logical steps which are experiences of power mechanism of reference to power→substancialzation of power→institutions of power. This attempt of reconstruction of the concept of power is a precise and strict one which retains the former achievements by Weber, Parsons, and Luhmann as its foundation.
This study is still developing, and I expect to publish some part of it as a forthcoming book to be titled The Foundation of Lingualistic Sociology.
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