Social reproduction and the limitations: inclusion and exclusion of social movements in Japan

2021 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K13929
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: Basic Section 08010:Sociology-related
• Research Institution: Ritsumeikan University
• Principal Investigator: Tominaga Kyoko 立命館大学, 産業社会学部, 准教授 (70750008)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-04-01 – 2022-03-31
• Keywords: 社会運動 / 排除 / アクティビスト・アイデンティティ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study makes clear the processes that generate exclusion and discrimination are generated and reproduced in social movements which are supposed to include minorities. This study analyses the norms and practices of social movements in Japan as the dual process of both everyday routine and collective action like demonstrations. The research revealed that norms of social movements are generated in not only the daily lives of activists and collective actions they engaged but also in the transportation processes to the site of the movement and the media appearances of themselves.

Free Research Field

社会運動論

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

日本におけるデモ参加率はおよそ5%と、先進国内でもかなり低いことが知られている。また、警察による規制も厳しい。しかし、日本は組織的な社会運動が困難な一方で、生協運動や消費者運動に代表される、日常を通じた活動が非常に盛んであるという珍しい社会である。日本の事例を検討しながら「日常」を「社会運動」と対比させ、両者の往還を検討しながら「規範」「作法」を検討する申請者の試みは、現代に至るまで「社会運動に厳しい社会」と言われてきた日本の社会運動参加・政治参加の有り様を解き明かす上で重要な意義を持つ。