Marketisation of Death and Gender

2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23651265
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Gender
• Research Institution: Nagoya City University
• Principal Investigator: ANDO KIWAMU 名古屋市立大学, 人文社会系研究科, 准教授 (80269133)
• Project Period (FY): 2011 – 2013
• Keywords: 経済・労働 / ジェンダー / 埋め込み / ライフコース / ネットワーク / 労働力の女性化

Research Abstract

This study tried to reinforce the hypothesis that the feminization of the agents of private life insurance companies was embedded into post-war Japanese society, by comparing private life insurance with Postal Life Insurance and Japan Agricultural Cooperatives life insurance having kept male as the main force of agents The results pointed out that the gender of life insurance agents was related to the different way of obtaining the reliance of their customers in selling life insurance policies. The comparative research between Japan and Turkey showed that the characteristics of Japanese life insurance industry were not necessarily expected to be found in the specific stage of rapid economic growth and family changes, and should be understood from the view point of their embeddedness in the gendered Japanese society after the Second World War.

Research Products

• [Presentation] ジェンダーと『死の商品化』について-家族変動・パーソナルネットワーク・信頼の観点から- (2013)
  • Author(s): 安藤 究
  • Organizer: 日本社会学会
  • Year and Date: 20131000
• [Presentation] 家族変動と『死の商品化』の国際比較に向けて-日本とトルコの場合- (2013)
  • Author(s): 安藤 究
  • Organizer: 東海社会学会
  • Place of Presentation: 日本福祉大学
  • Year and Date: 20130700
• [Presentation] Dealing with Death through the Market : The Development of Life Insurance Industry Embedded in Post-war Japanese Family and Life Course Changes (2012)
  • Author(s): Kiwamu ANDO
  • Organizer: paper presented at WORKSHOP ON EMBEDDEDNESS AND EMBEDDING
  • Place of Presentation: University of Gdańsk & Kashubian Institute
  • Year and Date: 20120500
• [Remarks] Андо К, Укорененность и развитие отрасли ст рахования жизни в пос левоенной Японии, Бюл летень 《ЭСФорум》, No. 5 (31), 5-9, 2012(=Embeddedness and the in Post-war Japan, Ando, K, <translated by Elena Konobeeva and supervised by Zoya Kotelnikova; National Research University "Higher School of Economics" -Moscow, Russia>, "ESForum, " No. 5 (31), 5-9, 2012.
• [Remarks] 2011年11月9日 名城大学ジェンダー研究所(『死の商品化』とジェンダー -「生命保険」と家族・ライフコース変動)