2005 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Sociological Studies on Citizens' Consciousness and Activities in Globalizing Societies : an international comparison of Japan, Asia, USA and Europe
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14201019
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
社会学(含社会福祉関係)
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| Research Institution | Seisen University (2003-2005)
The University of Tokyo (2002) |
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Principal Investigator |
SHOJI Kokichi Seisen University, Faculty of Letters, Professor, 文学部, 教授 (30061203)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
FURUKI Toshiaki Chuo University, Faculty of Law, Professor, 法学部, 教授 (70055185)
YAZAWA Shujiro Hitotsubashi University, Graduate School of Sociology, Professor, 大学院・社会学研究科, 教授 (20055320)
TAKEGAWA Shogo University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, Associate Professor, 大学院・人文社会系研究科, 助教授 (40197281)
NIBE Nobuhiko Nagoya University, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Associate Professor, 大学院・環境学研究科, 助教授 (90212125)
OKUMURA Takashi Rikkyo University, Faculty of Sociology, Professor, 社会学部, 教授 (30211816)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2002 – 2005
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| Keywords | globalization / global society / expansion of disparities / population imbalance / NGO activities / ‘Empire' debates / ‘Empire'-like world ruling system / total process to a global civil society |
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| Research Abstract |
Trying to grasp major phenomena of globalization as formation of a global society, this study has yielded six major results. (1)After the end of the Cold War between USA and USSR regional and ethnic conflicts and wars have been increasing some of which accompanied by terrorism against the Advanced Superpowers while possibilities of wars between Superpowers seem to have almost entirely disappeared. (2)In the backgrounds there have been growing disparities not only between advanced and developing but in the internal structures of both sides of nations. (3)Because of these conditions environmental problems have been left behind to be even deteriorated. (4)On the other hand low-birth-rate aging problems of advanced nations have been intermingled with population explosion of developing ones so that some global population imbalance has been becoming drastically serious. (5)The UN reform has not been successfully done while the summit of major countries or meetings of WTO and others have been
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facing more and more activating citizens' protests in the global scale although organization and reorganization of the international and global society has been deadly needed. (6)On the other side NGOs' and other activities of global citizens are far from enough to reach some necessary level to take leadership in forming a global civil society.
This study has created a new theory based on discussions about ‘Empire' and others. And this has opened a road to build a new comprehensive theory with which we can analyze the "Empire"-like world ruling system and explain citizenization, decitizenaization and recitizenization of societies in our contemporary world. We should say that our global society is now on the way to be totally democratized to become a global civil society and that since the ‘Empire'-like world ruling system has been framed up by advanced Superpowers utilizing this totally democratizing processes awakened citizens have been trying hard to citizenize uncitizenized societies and recitizenize decitizenized societies. To citizenize means to make people citizens in a society so that they be its sovereigns and to make this society a civil society in the correct sense of this word in the whole human history. Less
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Research Products
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[Journal Article] Sociology2004
Author(s)
SHOJI Kokichi
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Journal Title
Introductory Bibliography for Japanese Studies : Social Sciences 2000-2001 XIV-1
Pages: 133-173
Description
「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
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[Journal Article] Sociology2002
Author(s)
SHOJI Kokichi
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Journal Title
Introductory Bibliography for Japanese Studies : Social Sciences 1998-1999 XIII-1
Pages: 131-165
Description
「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
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