Inovation of life history method: UML description

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K13069
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Sociology
• Research Institution: Osaka University
• Principal Investigator: Kawabata Akira 大阪大学, 人間科学研究科, 教授 (00214677)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 渡邉 光一 関東学院大学, 経営学部, 教授 (30329205) ; 猪瀬 優理 龍谷大学, 社会学部, 准教授 (60455607)
• Research Collaborator: Yumiyama Tatsuya 東京工業大学, リベラルアーツ研究教育院, 教授 (40311998) ; KONO Masahiro 関東学院大学, 経営学部, 非常勤講師
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: ライフヒストリー法 / 宗教的体験談 / UML / クラス図 / ステートマシンズ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In our study, our group developed a method to show religious experience stories diagrammatically using UML. Using the UML software called Enterprise Architect 13, we showed testimonies that were already published in the magazines and that we have interviewed so far through class diagrams and state machine diagrams.
At the annual meeting of the Japan Sociological Society, we reported the results of our study titled "An attempt to put life history into the form of diagrams." In addition, an academic paper was published. Based on the diagrams of the experience stories by UML, we examined the question items to hear religious experience stories and organized an interview guide. Following that guide, we conducted an interview survey.

Free Research Field

社会学