A Sociological Approach to the Circulation of Community Currency and its Effects on the Normal and Disaster-Affected Areas

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26780287
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Sociology
• Research Institution: Meiji University
• Principal Investigator: NAKAZATO HIROMI 明治大学, 情報コミュニケーション学部, 専任准教授 (20555586)
• Research Collaborator: LIM Seunghoo
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 地域通貨 / 地域コミュニティ / 社会ネットワーク分析

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research focused on community currency activities in the normal as well as the disaster-affected areas and investigated their circulations (the processes of tie formations among members) and its effects on their local communities. Using multi-analytical methods including social network analysis, this study could identify that community currency has contributed to the formation and restoration of the personal networks among local residents in both research areas. This research also examined the formations of specific types of network structures (e.g., the existence of local hierarchies within transactional networks) and the distinct evolutionary processes or the outcomes of transactional network creations between the two groups of participants: individual members and organizational members.

Free Research Field

社会科学