Social Mentality in Contemporary Japan－Quantitative Social Consciousness Studies(Osaka University Humanities and Social Sciences Series) [単行本]

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• 目次

  About the Author
  Translator’s Note
  
  INTRODUCTION: Quantifying Social Mentality
  A Crucial Thing Invisible to the Eye
  Survey Data Analysis as Brake
  The Structure of This Book
  
  PART I REBUILDING SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS STUDIES
  
  CHAPTER 1
  Approaches to Apprehending Social Consciousness
  
  Positioning the Field within the Social Sciences
  General Concepts of Social Consciousness
  Stratification, Education, and the Formation of Social Consciousness
  Social Consciousness Studies in the Postwar Period
  Establishing Contemporary Social Consciousness Studies
  Unexpectedly Idled
  Stratification Consciousness Studies
  The Pedigree of Social Consciousness Studies
  
  CHAPTER 2
  The Conduct of Quantitative Social Consciousness Studies
  
  The Social Structure Sets Social Consciousness in Motion
  Observing Contemporary Japanese Society
  The Horizons Set by Trends and Status-Relatedness
  Focusing on Society’s Middle Ranges
  Public Opinion Statistics and Quantitative Social Consciousness Studies
  Analytical Monographs
  “The Angels’ Share”
  
  
  PART II THE TRAJECTORY OF IDENTIFICATION
  
  CHAPTER 3
  Japan in 1985
  
  An Age of Subtle Changes
  Capturing the Eve of Reflexive Modernity
  The Pinnacle for Sh.wa Japan
  Generational Change and the Human Life-Cycle
  Positive Reevaluations of the Uniqueness of Japan’s Culture: The Age of “Exotic Japan”
  Social Mentality in the First Modernity
  Homologies between Nihonjinron and the Mass-Middle-Class Phenomenon
  
  CHAPTER 4
  The Real Nature of the Mass-Middle-Class Phenomenon
  
  The Catalyst that Changed the Debate about Stratification into One about Eras
  Curious Consequences
  A Point of Debate Consigned to “Galapagos”
  The “Phony” Rise of the Mass Middle Class: The Case of the SSM Survey
  The “Phony” Rise of the Mass Middle Class: The Case of the Life of the People Survey
  The Fiction and Reality of the Mass Middle Class
  
  CHAPTER 5
  From Mass-Middle-Class Society to Mass-Inequality Society 81
  
  Redefining Mass Middle Class
  Enhancing Causal Explanatory Power
  The Quiet Transformation of Status Identification
  The Mechanism behind Era Change
  What Is the Era of the Mass-Inequality Society Like?
  
  
  PART III WHAT HAPPENED TO ORIENTATION?
  
  CHAPTER 6
  The Quiet Retirement of Traditionalism.Modernism
  
  Modern Society and Traditionalism
  What Is Authoritarianism?
  Self-Direction
  The Trajectory of the Authoritarian Attitude
  Post-Modernization in Attitudes toward Gender-Role Segregation
  Disappearance of the Gradient of Social Mentality
  
  CHAPTER 7
  The Doctrineless Age
  
  The “Misfire” of Equity Studies
  Perception of Inequality Driven by Personal Interest
  A Ubiquitous Prosocial Nature
  A Meltdown Caused by the Acceptance of Diversity
  Searching for a Gradient in the Frequency of Daily Activities
  The Consummatory Nature of the Doctrineless Age
  
  CHAPTER 8
  A Hidden Era-Change in Quality of Life Orientations
  
  Attitudes to Health and the Environment in Contemporary Japan
  The Influence of Social Consciousness on the QOL Orientation
  Comparative Survey Data from 18 Years Later
  An Era Change in the Determinant Structure
  From Modernity to Reflexive Modernity
  
  
  EPILOGUE
  Status Literacy, Consummatory, and Reflexivity
  
  The Described Shape of the Social Mentality
  Disembedding from the Collective Consciousness
  The Social Mentality of the 1980s
  The Social Mentality of Contemporary Japan
  The Frayed Influence of Social Attributes
  Disembedding from Occupation
  Re-embedding into Education
  Concluding Remarks
  
  
  Afterword
  Works Cited
  Index

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  現代日本社会を鋭く読み解いた好著『現代日本の「社会の心」－計量社会意識論』（有斐閣、2014年）の待望の英語翻訳版。

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  “Japanese have come to treasure the bonds among people.”
  “No, the connections among people have been lost and everyone feels alone.”
  “Today’s young people have lost hope.”
  “No, young people in fact seem to be pretty satisfied with their daily lives.”
  
  
  How do people see the world around them, and what feelings do the things they see arouse? In the broadest sense, the answers to these questions offer us a glimpse of what I call the “social mentality”. Social mentality constitutes the software, so to speak, that controls how the social system works. The idea that such a social mentality exists and can be apprehended is attracting renewed interest for its potential as a key to help us unlock the riddles of Japanese society today.
  . . .
  Metaphorically speaking the ship of Japanese society on which we are passengers is going to be steered solely by experience and gut reaction with no one checking the instrument panel. Social consciousness studies that are based on survey data analysis can establish the necessary “oppositional complementarity” to put forth sound arguments about the direction in which the social mentality is headed.
  
  
  日本人の心のあり方、社会意識を計量的に分析し、現代日本社会を鋭く読み解いた好著『現代日本の「社会の心」－計量社会意識論』（有斐閣、2014年）の英語…

• 著者について

  ToruKikkawa（吉川徹） (キッカワトオル)
  About the Author
  Toru Kikkawa (Ph.D., Osaka University, 1994) is a professor of sociology in the Graduate School of Human Sciences at Osaka University. He leads the Stratification and Social Psychology (SSP) Project based also at Osaka University.
  He is the author of Kaisō kyōiku to shakai ishiki no keisei: Shakai ishiki ron no jikai [Stratification, education, and the formation of social consciousness: The magnetic field in social consciousness studies] (1998) and Gakureki bund…

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