Mathematical and Quantitative Analysis in Effects of Social Changes on Social Identity

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24530599
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Sociology
• Research Institution: Gakushuin University
• Principal Investigator: SUDO NAOKI 学習院大学, 法学部, 教授 (60262680)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 階層意識 / 婚姻上の地位 / 未婚化・晩婚化 / 格差社会 / 階層イメージ / 一般的信頼 / 民主主義

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The project aimed to clarify effects of social changes on social identity by using mathematical and quantitative approaches. As a result, the project succeeded in indicating three findings based on analysis of some social survey data. First, with the tendency of delayed marriage, marital status has influenced social identity in a positive way. In previous studies, this effect of marital status was not found. Second, relationships between generalized trust and democratization tend to be curve-linear, and this fact suggests that generalized trust has two types. Last, it was found that emerging unequal society (Kakusa Shakai) had changed our image of social stratification dramatically.

Free Research Field

数理社会学