2023 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
Understanding Attitudes Towards Wealth Inequality: The Role of Normative Ideas of Justice and Fairness
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22KF0338
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Institution | Sophia University |
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Principal Investigator |
ホメリヒ カローラ 上智大学, 総合人間科学部, 教授 (60770302)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
KITSNIK JOANNA 上智大学, 総合人間科学部, 外国人特別研究員
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| Project Period (FY) |
2023-03-08 – 2025-03-31
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| Keywords | Inequality analysis / Acceptance of inequality / Environmental sociology / Environmental attitudes |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
During FY2023, Kitsnik placed a focus on presenting and publishing her research.
She presented her research on attitudes towards wealth and income inequality at the XX ISA World Congress of Sociology in Melbourne and in an invited talk at Tallinn University in Estonia at the School of Governance, Law, and Society, and published a peer-reviewed single-author paper in international journal Comparative Sociology. She also submitted a chapter (invited) to a volume on acceptance of economic inequality which will be published by Oxford University Press.
She presented research on environmental attitudes at the 96th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Sociological Society at Rissho University and at the 2nd ISSP User Conference (online) and published a chapter on the topic in an edited volume published by Sophia University Press.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
1: Research has progressed more than it was originally planned.
Reason
During FY2023 Kitsnik made significant progress in her research on inequality and environmental attitudes. She successfully presented her findings at various international and local conferences. In addition to her presentations and talks, Kitsnik published a single authored article in an international peer-reviewed journal and submitted a first-authored book chapter (invited) for publication with Oxford University Press. Furthermore, she has contributed to an edited volume published by Sophia University Press. These accomplishments reflect Kitsnik’s ongoing commitment to sharing her insights with a broad audience: Her work sheds light on important societal issues and contributes to the academic discourse on inequality and environmental attitudes.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
For FY2024, Kitsnik has planned several presentations and publications. First is an invited talk with her host researcher at the German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ) Tokyo on “Who Drives the Green Shift? Environmental Attitudes in Japan from 1993 to 2020”. Following this, she will present her individual research findings on wealth gap sentiments at the RC28 Spring Meeting in Shanghai. In addition to this, she will continue to work on several articles, the publication of which is likely to happen only after the conclusion of her JSPS fellowship at the end of June.
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| Causes of Carryover |
An international workshop that the fellow had intended to participate in Italy in March 2023 did not work out. For this reason, this sum had to be transferred into FY2024, where it will be used for conference participation and publication purposes.
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