1998 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Minoru Kida : Intellectuals and Sociology in the Postwar Period in Japan
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09610181
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
社会学(含社会福祉関係)
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| Research Institution | Nara Women's University |
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Principal Investigator |
NAKAJIMA Michio Nara Women's University, Faculty of Letters, Professor, 文学部, 教授 (10144635)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1997 – 1998
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| Keywords | intellectuals / social criticism / internal social criticism / Minoru Kida / external social criticism / Japanese modernism |
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| Research Abstract |
Intellectuals and Social Criticism : Minoru Kida Revisited
Chapter 1 : I try to examine various interpretations on the position of Japanese intellectuals in order to get a vivid image of attractive social criticism of our own society. Those who are referred to are intellectuals such as Itsuo Kohama, Takaaki Yoshimoto, Shunsuke Tsurumi and Keishi Saeki. This chapter maintains that attractive social criticism ought to be one which M.Walzer has called internal social criticism.
Chapter 2 : My concern in this chapter is to consider how Japanese intellectuals in the postwar period treated, in relation to the problem of modernization, a small village called "mura" in Japanese. In this connection, Tsuneichi Miyamoto, a famous folklorist, is worth reconsidering. He has been considered as a conservative who wants to maintain the status-quo. The point at issue is why he has been treated like this. In my opinion that is because critics have not been able to understand the position of internal social criticism. They have only had the option of external social criticism or conservatism.
Chapter 3 : Minoru Kida, a sociologist and writer, has not been fully paid attention to, and he also has been regarded as a conservative. But I think that he is a very interesting intellectual from the viewpoint of internal social criticism. I try to make an effort to maintain in this chapter that Minoru Kida was an internal social critic who opposed intensely such social criticism as Japanese modernists did. Far from being out of date in thought, Minoru Kida is an intellectual who is well worth reconsideration in this age of globalism.
Appendix : Works of Minoru Kida (including articles)
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