Study on Accumulative Mechanisms of Social Exclusion from the Viewpoint of Analytical Sociology

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 16K13406
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Sociology
• Research Institution: Tohoku University
• Principal Investigator: Sato Yoshimichi 東北大学, 文学研究科, 教授 (90196288)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 浜田 宏 東北大学, 文学研究科, 教授 (40388723) ; 永吉 希久子 東北大学, 文学研究科, 准教授 (50609782)
• Research Collaborator: TAKIKAWA Hiroki 東北大学, 学際科学フロンティア研究所, 助教 (60456340) ; HEDSTRÖM Peter リンショーピン大学, 分析社会学研究所, 所長 ; ITO Takafumi 東北大学, 大学院文学研究科, 大学院生
• Project Period (FY): 2016-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 社会的排除 / 分析社会学 / エージェント・ベースト・モデル / ビッグデータ / 計算社会科学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The concept of social exclusion captures the process in which exclusion from a social sphere leads to that from another sphere. For example, poverty, exclusion from economic life, is likely to lead to social isolation, exclusion from social life. This project studied this accumulative process using agent-based models that create artificial society on computer and big data analysis of discourses on the Internet. A main finding is that two factors contribute to the emergence of the accumulative process: Weak linkages between social institutions in various social spheres and polarization of discourses.

Free Research Field

社会学