2007 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Comprehensive Study on Structure and Change of Social Stratification System in Contemporary Japan
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16001001
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Specially Promoted Research
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Review Section |
Humanities and Social Sciences
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| Research Institution | Tohoku University |
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Principal Investigator |
SATO Yoshimichi Tohoku University, Graduate School of Arts and Letters, Professor (90196288)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
KONDO Hiroyuki Osaka University, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Professor (60135647)
SAITO Yuriko Hosei University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Professor (80278879)
MISUMI Kazuo Kyushu University, Graduate School of Social and Cultural Studies, Professor (80190627)
ISHIDA Hiroshi The University of Tokyo, Institute of Social Science, Professor (40272504)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2004 – 2007
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| Keywords | Social stratification / Social mobility / Labor market / Fluidity / Disparity / Immobilization of social stratification |
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| Research Abstract |
The purpose of this research project is to develop new theories on social stratification and social mobility that explain two social phenomena that seem to be contradictory to each other : The fluidization and the immobilization of social stratification. For this purpose we conducted five social surveys for data collection as well as developing theories with which to analyze the data. Surveys in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan were conducted in 2005 with similar questionnaires. A mail survey and a website survey targeting the youth, who have been strongly influenced by the fluidization in the labor market, were conducted in 2007. The results of the analyses of the data collected in these surveys are published in fifteen volumes of the report to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. In addition to publication in the report, project members presented papers at academic conferences and published papers and books.
We studied social stratification and social mobility from various perspectives because this project is an integrated project on this topic. Thus not all the results of the project can be presented in this abstract, but the following findings are representative of the results. 1) The increasing closure of intergenerational mobility of upper white-collar employees, which was argued by Toshiki Sato, is not the case in 2005. 2) Less-educated people and women are more likely to become non-regular workers than well-educated people and men. 3) Income disparity between regular and non-regular workers is large, but we need more detailed analysis to judge whether the disparity has become larger or not.
It is particularly worth noting that this project is the first full-blown comparative study of social stratification and social mobility in East Asia. Some of the results of this comparative study are published in the thirteenth volume of the report titled Dynamics of Social Stratification in East Asia.
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Research Products
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[Journal Article] Cluster Analysis2006
Author(s)
Genji, Keiko
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Journal Title
Arinori Yosano et al. (eds. ), Sociometrics : An Introduction to Sociometrics, Keiso-Shobo
Pages: 303-309
Description
「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
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[Presentation] Social Mobility and Education in Postwar Japan2005
Author(s)
Ishida, Hiroshi, Miwa, Satoshi.
Organizer
International Sociological Association, Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobili-ty (RC28) at UCLA
Place of Presentation
UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, U. S. A
Year and Date
2005-08-19
Description
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