2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Formulation of Social Category Analysis by Boolean Analysis

Research Project

Project/Area Number	23653141
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Research Field	Sociology
Research Institution	Osaka University of Economics (2012-2013) Kwansei Gakuin University (2011)
Principal Investigator	ISHIDA Atsushi 大阪経済大学, 人間科学部, 准教授 (40411772)
Project Period (FY)	2011 – 2013
Keywords	質的比較分析 / ブール代数分析 / エージェント・ベースド・シミュレーション / ナショナル・アイデンティティ
Research Abstract	I conducted an internet survey on image of "Japanese." I employed vignette questionnaires which describe typical combinations of conditions of Japanese. By using the survey data, I analyzed socially shared Japanese image by means of Boolean analysis. Furthermore, I analyzed individual images of Japanese. As a result of analysis, I found that a person who are male, higher educated and living a region with higher foreigner rate tends to have a Japanese image mainly composed by nationality, while, a person who are aged and living a region with lower foreigner rate tends to have that mainly composed by ethnicity.