A Historical Sociological Study on "Social Inclusion" in Postwar Japan: Focusing on the "Right to Live"

• Project/Area Number: 25870085
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Sociology; Social welfare and social work studies
• Research Institution: Ibaraki University
• Principal Investigator: TOMIE Naoko 茨城大学, 人文学部, 准教授 (20451784)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
• Budget Amount: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥520,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥120,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥520,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥120,000); Fiscal Year 2013: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
• Keywords: 生存権 / 貧困 / 救貧 / 社会的包摂 / 歴史社会学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Social inclusion or citizenship has been the basic idea in the discourses and practices of public relief since the dawn of modern Japan. But that is not the only possible way to argue for the "right to live" of the needy people. Looking back into the past we can see different ways of thinking about public relief.
In this study I explored the notions of "right to live" in early-modern and modern Japan. And I found two ideas that provided the logical and ethical bases for the "right to live" besides the idea of citizenship: moral economy and human rights. Through the sociological and historical analysis of contending arguments concerning the "right to live", I depicted the logic and the politics of the modernization of relief system.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] 1918年米騒動における二つの「生存権」――モラル・エコノミーとシティズンシップ (2017)
  • Author(s): 冨江直子
  • Journal Title: 福祉社会学研究 Volume: 14
  • NAID: 130007665550
  • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] 書評：杉田菜穂著, 『<優生>・<優境>と社会政策 : 人口問題の日本的展開』, 法律文化社, 2013年 (2015)
  • Author(s): 冨江直子
  • Journal Title: 社会政策 Volume: 7(2) Pages: 135-139
• [Journal Article] 書評 大塩まゆみ著『「陰徳の豪商」の救貧思想』 (2014)
  • Author(s): 冨江直子
  • Journal Title: 社会政策 Volume: 6(1) Pages: 113-117
• [Journal Article] 戦後史のなかの朝日訴訟－朝日訴訟運動はなぜ「生存権」を語ることができたのか－ (2013)
  • Author(s): 冨江直子
  • Journal Title: 貧困研究 Volume: 11 Pages: 61-74
  • NAID: 40019928466
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] 貧困からの解放をもとめて (2015)
  • Author(s): 冨江直子
  • Organizer: 日本社会学会
  • Place of Presentation: 早稲田大学戸山キャンパス
  • Year and Date: 2015-09-20
• [Presentation] 書評分科会 杉田菜穂著 『〈優生〉・〈優境〉と社会政策―人口問題の日本的展開―』 (2014)
  • Author(s): 冨江直子
  • Organizer: 社会政策学会
  • Place of Presentation: 岡山大学
  • Year and Date: 2014-10-12
• [Presentation] 書評分科会「社会政策の思想・歴史 」：大塩まゆみ『「陰徳の豪商」の救貧思想』
  • Author(s): 冨江直子
  • Organizer: 社会政策学会
  • Place of Presentation: 大阪経済大学
• [Book] 福祉プラスアルファ 貧困 (2017)
  • Author(s): 駒村康平（編）
  • Publisher: ミネルヴァ書房