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The expansion of non-regular employment and the changes of masculinity

Research Project

Project/Area Number 16K04046
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Sociology
Research InstitutionSophia University (2018-2019)
Hokkaido University (2016-2017)

Principal Investigator

Imai Jun  上智大学, 総合人間科学部, 教授 (30545653)

Project Period (FY) 2016-04-01 – 2020-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2019)
Budget Amount *help
¥2,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥600,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Keywords男性性 / 非正規雇用 / 産業的シティズンシップ / 標準的雇用中心主義 / 象徴的暴力 / 限定正社員 / 企業別シティズンシップ
Outline of Final Research Achievements

The foundational ability to be an employee at Japanese companies has been the ability to be flexible to the requirements of work assignment, regional transfer, and working time. This was/is not clearly recognized as "ability", rather existed almost as the obligations as an industrial citizen in this society. This sense of obligation is structurally equated to the obligation mandated to be matured man in Japan. The research of young men in non-regular employment revealed that they are hurt because they cannot obtain social recognition as matured/responsible men due to the lack of their intention/ability to fulfill the obligations. The analysis of the policy process that facilitated to establish and introduce the restricted regular employment tells that the norms and their relation to gender roles has been reproduced. Therefore the structure of employment/gender order that does not allow diversity of identity is still in place in Japan that is in the midst of work-style reform.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

正規・非正規格差の解消や働き方の多様性の実現が求められている。しかし、本研究の成果は、それらの改革努力が企業別シティズンシップの内包する平等・公正の観念と性別秩序の関連を理解しなければ、結果は常に不平等と排除の再生産につながってしまうことを示している。このシティズンシップの規範は人々の男らしさ(女らしさ)を、職場において期待される能力において強く規定していると同時に、政策過程において言わずもがなの前提となっているなど大きな影響力を持ち続けている。それを認識しなければ、劣位にある人ですら現状の社会構造を再生産してしまい、多様化は階層化として実現してしまうだろう。

Report

(5 results)
  • 2019 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2018 Research-status Report
  • 2017 Research-status Report
  • 2016 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (8 results)

All 2020 2018 2017 2016

All Presentation (5 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 2 results,  Invited: 3 results) Book (3 results)

  • [Presentation] Diversity as Stratification: Work-style Reform and its Consequences on Inequality in Japan2020

    • Author(s)
      Jun Imai
    • Organizer
      Japan Research Centre seminar, SOAS University of London (先方大学のストライキによりキャンセル)
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Diversity as Stratification: Work-style Reform and its Consequences on Inequality in Japan2020

    • Author(s)
      Jun Imai
    • Organizer
      Work and Inequality Institute workshop, University of Manchester (先方大学のストライキによりキャンセル)
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Struggling Men in Emasculated Life-course: Experiences of Non-regular Employment in Japan2017

    • Author(s)
      Jun Imai
    • Organizer
      European Association of Japan Studies Conference
    • Place of Presentation
      The Universidade NOVA (Portugal)
    • Year and Date
      2017-08-31
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Struggling in an Emasculated Life-Course: the experiences of men in non-regular employment in Japan2017

    • Author(s)
      Imai Jun
    • Organizer
      Gender, Equality and Employment in Japan: Reflections on three decades of equality, SOAS Japan Research Centre
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] The culture of lifetime employment in Japan: The prevalence of “company citizenship” in the practice of mobilities2016

    • Author(s)
      Jun Imai
    • Organizer
      Joint East Asian Studies Conference
    • Place of Presentation
      SOAS, University of London (UK)
    • Year and Date
      2016-09-08
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Book] 雇用関係と社会的不平等ー産業的シティズンシップへの着目2020

    • Author(s)
      今井 順
    • Total Pages
      370
    • Publisher
      有斐閣
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] Being Young in Super-Aging Japan: Formative Events and Cultural Reactions2018

    • Author(s)
      Patrick Heinrich and Christian Galan, eds. J. Imai, M. Ishii-Kuntz et.al.
    • Total Pages
      246
    • Publisher
      Routledge
    • ISBN
      9781138494978
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Book] Being Young in Super-Ageing Japan: Formative Events and Cultural Reactions2018

    • Author(s)
      Patrick Heinrich and Christian Galan
    • Total Pages
      272
    • Publisher
      Routledge
    • ISBN
      9781138494978
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report

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Published: 2016-04-21   Modified: 2021-02-19  

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