Nuclear Plant Accident and Affected Social Groups: A Sociological Study of How the Evacuated Family, Neighborhood and Business Respond to the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K17185
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Sociology
• Research Institution: Tokyo Metropolitan University
• Principal Investigator: Yoshida Kohei 首都大学東京, 人文科学研究科, 客員研究員 (90706748)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 災害社会学 / 集団社会学 / 福島原発事故 / 原発避難

Outline of Final Research Achievements

No sufficient empirical study has been conducted on how the social groups - families, neighborhoods, businesses - experience the devastating disaster in Japan. This project carried out a series of research on how these three types of groups are affected by the ongoing mass evacuation process, and on how they are responding to the situation. To that end, the study took a sociological approach so that the "group" change is explained not only in its actual membership but also in its symbolic representation. These processes were shown in the statistical and case study of the groups that were evacuated from the area surrounding Fukushima Nuclear Plant.

Free Research Field

社会学史研究、災害研究、移動研究