From Accumulation of Time Series Data to the Creation of Social Change Model: Challenges of Third Wave of Four City Survey in China

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25243001
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Area studies
• Research Institution: The University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: Sonoda Shigeto 東京大学, 大学院情報学環, 教授 (10206683)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): TAKAHARA Akio 東京大学, 大学院法学政治学研究科, 教授 (80240993) ; KAMO Tomoki 慶應義塾大学, 総合政策学部, 教授 (30365499) ; NAKAOKA Mari 常磐大学, 国際学部, 准教授 (80364488)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 第三次四都市調査 / 時系列調査 / 社会変動モデル / 中国 / グランデッド・セオリー

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The third wave of Four City (Tianjin, Shanghai, Chongqing, and Guangzhou) was conducted in 2014 after eight year interval from 1998 and 2006. Sample size in each city was roughly 1,000. The survey included questions about targeted citizen’s (1) social life, (2) evaluation toward inequality and social problems, (3) perception toward foreign influence, and so on.
Chronological analysis of the survey data reveals the fact that former pattern in which respondent’s sense of betterment of his standard of living is contributing to high evaluation toward government’s performance has not changed while some interesting changes, including intensifying local identities in each city, have been identified. Some of these findings were reported in nine international meetings.

Free Research Field

社会学