2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A Comparative Sociological Study of Examinations as Institutions of "Ability"
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23530690
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Sociology
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| Research Institution | Japan Women's University |
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Principal Investigator |
ONAKA Fumiya 日本女子大学, 人間社会学部, 教授 (90233569)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
OKAWA Kiyotake 帝京大学, 文学部, 准教授 (80299057)
SHIRATORI Yoshihiko 神戸大学, 人文学研究科, 教授 (20319213)
AIZAWA Shinichi 中京大学, 現代社会学部, 准教授 (00456196)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2013
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| Keywords | 試験 / 比較 / 能力 / ネットワーク / イギリス / フランス / タイ / 日本 |
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| Research Abstract |
The main purpose of this research is to investigate a sociological meaning of the new institutions of "ability" after the 1980s, under the understanding that examinations are institutions of "ability", by the method of "thick comparison" with historical perspective and socio-cultural network analysis using local daily newspapers and interviews with important persons of England, France, Thailand, and Japan. In conclusion, the remarkable characteristic of these new concepts of "ability" is that they are distant from the institutions of examination and that they have indirect connection to them through the concept of "education" and through the social actors including the government and schools, rather than universities.
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