Sociology Departments In Japan

Sociology Index, Sociology Books 2012

Ryukoku University/Department of Sociology
Educational Activities - Faculty of Sociology - Department of Sociology, Ryukoku ryukoku.ac.jp
Discovering Problems in Society
The Department offers the following four courses which focus on issues including social consciousness, industry, politics, environment, family, culture to approach a broad range of study in sociology.
Social Consciousness Course
Evaluates current level of social consciousness and investigates ways of increasing it.
Media Course
Examines the people and their culture through communication and society.
Clinical Sociological Course
Examines actual situations, causes, and solutions of problems in society.
Environmental Sociological Course
Surveys the relationship between environmental and social issues and its social

Shukutoku University
http://www.shukutoku.ac.jp/english/
Having the Mahayana Buddhist ideal of "coexistence" as its founding spirit, Shukutoku University aims to nurture human resources through providing practical education that places value on human empathy and relationships with people in modern settings.
Education
The College of Integrated Human and Social Welfare Studies
* School of Social Welfare
* School of Psychology Practices
* School of Human and Sociel Sciences
The College of Cross-cultural Communication and Business
* School of Welfare and Environment
* School of Business and Communication
* School of Cross-cultural Communication
The Graduate School of Integrated Human and Social Welfare Studies
The Graduate School of International Business and Culture

Edogawa University College of Sociology. Department of Sociology and Human Studies - http://www.edogawa-u.ac.jp

Kyoto University
http://www.socio.kyoto-u.ac.jp/english/index.php?SOCIO
Department of Sociology, Graduate School of Letters

School of Human Sciences, Osaka University
http://www.hus.osaka-u.ac.jp/english/
The School of Human Sciences offers interdisciplinary courses in the human sciences, with the aim of fostering a better understanding of human beings and creating of a more humane society.
The Graduate School of Human Sciences conducts research on humans by analyzing and evaluating human behavior, psychology and society, for the better comprehension of human beings and the creation of mechanisms to enable humanity to live humanely.

Toyo University
http://www.soc.toyo.ac.jp/
Faculty of Sociology

Nihon University - http://www.chs.nihon-u.ac.jp/html_en/departments/index.html

Shizuoka University - http://www.hss.shizuoka.ac.jp/shakai/shakai-e.html

Institutions and Agencies

• Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo / Social Science Japan | SSJ Data Archive
• Institute of Socio-Information and Communication Studies, University of Tokyo
• Ohara Institute for Social Research, Hosei University / Links to Labor and Social Websites in Japan
• * Institute of Sociology and Social Work, Meijigakuin University
• Akita Prefecture / * List of statistical reports in Japan
• Institute of Statistical Mathematics
• Statistics Bureau, Management and Coordination Agency / WWW Servers on Statistics and Social Research
• * National Institute of Population and Social Security Research
• * National Women's Education Centre
• Japan Institute of Labour / Links
• Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology
• Japan Aging Research Center / *Links
• International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken) / Database / Institution Research for Japanese
• Institute of Social and Economic Research: Osaka University
• International Labour Organization
• Prime Minister's Office / Office for Gender Equality / Links
• * Institute for Household Economy / * Japanese Panel Survey on Consumers
• NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute / Surveys and Studies
• Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan / Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) / ICPSR Data Archive

Universities

• Hokkaido University / * Faculty of Letters / * Department of Behavioral Science | Laboratory of Social Psychology
• Hokkaido University of Education Sapporo / Department of Social Sciences
• * Sapporo Gakuin University / * Fuculty of Humanities / * Department of Human Sciences
• Hokusei Gakuen University / School of Social Welfare / Department of Social Welfare Policy
• Hirosaki University / * Fuculty of Humanities
• * Aomori University / * Fuculty of Sociology
• Iwate University / Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences / * Behavioral Science Course
• Tohoku University / Faculty of Literature / Sociology | Behavioral Science
• * Tohoku Gakuin University / * Department of Liberal Arts/ Human Science Major
• * Miyagi Gakuin Women's University / * Department of Human Culture
• Fukushima University / Faculty of Administration and Social Sciences
• Ibaraki University / * Fuculty of Humanities / * Department of Social Sciences
• Tsukuba University / Social Sciences | Science and Engineering for Social Systems
• Tokiwa University / * Faculty of Human Science / * Department of Human Relations
• * Ryutsu Keizai University / * Department of Sociology
• Gunma University / Faculty of Social and Information Studies
• Saitama University / College of Liberal Arts / * Contemporary Sociology Course
• * Jumonzi Gakuen Women's University / * Department of Social Information
• * Tokyo International University / * School of Human and Social Sciences
• * Bunkyo University / * Faculty of Human Sciences
• Chiba University / Faculty of Letters / Division of Behavioral Sciences / Sociology
• Edogawa University / Department of Applied Sociology
• * University of The Air / * Fuculty of Arts and Sciences/Industry and Society Course/Society and Economy
• * Ochanomizu University / * Faculty of Education
• University of Tokyo / Department of Advanced Social and International StudiesSocial Relations Course | School of Education | Department of Social Psychology
• Tokyo Gakugei University / *Sociology
• Tokyo Institute of Technology / Graduate School of Decision Science and Technology / Social Engineering | Department of Value and Decision Science (VALDES) | Human Behavior System
• Hitotsubashi University / Faculty of Social Sciences / Institute for The Study of Global Issues
• Tokyo Metropolitan University / * Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities / * Sociology
• Keio University / Graduate School of Media and Governance
• Sophia University / * Faculty of Humanities / * Department of Sociology
• Chuo-University / Social Informatics / * Graduate Students
• Tokyo Keizai University / *People
• Toyo University / Faculty of Sociology
• Nihon University / * College of Humanities and Sciences / * Department of Sociology
• * Japan Women's University / * Faculty of Human Society
• Hosei University / * Tama Campus / Faculty of Social Sciences | *Professers
• Meiji University / Servers
• Meiji Gakuin University / * Faculty of Sociology and Social Work
• Rikkyo University / College of Social Relations / Department of Social Relations | Department of Industrial Relations | * InterSocioNet
• * Rissho University / * Faculty of Letters / * Department of Sociology
• Waseda University / * School of Literature / * Graduate students of sociology / * Sociological Papers
• Niigata University / Faculty of Humanity
• Toyama University / Faculty of Humanity / Sociology
• Kanazawa University / * Faculty of Letters / * Division of Sociology
• * Komatsu College / YOSHITANI Hiroya
• Shinshu University / Faculty of Arts / Department of Culture and Information
• Shizuoka University / Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences / *Sociology
• University of Shizuoka / * Faculty of International Relations
• Nagoya University / School of Letters, Sociology | School of Education / Sociology of Education
• Chukyo University / * Department of Sociology
• Kyoto University / Faculty of Letters / Department of Sociology | Faculty of Integrated Human Studies | Graduate School of Human and Environment Studies
• Koka Women University / Department of Human Relations | SPSS
• Doshisha University / Faculty of Letters / * Graduate School of Sociology
• Ritsumeikan University / * Industrial Sociology / *Links
• Osaka University / Faculty of Letters, Clinical Philosophy and Ethics | Faculty of Human Sciences / Sociology of Education | Social Psychology | * Behaviormetrics | Anthropology | Sociology
• Osaka Education University / * Graduate School of Education | * Takahasi Ichiro
• * Osaka Women's University / * Department of Human Relations
• Osaka City University / Faculty of Literature / Sociology / Links
• Otemon Gakuin University / * Sociology
• Kansai University / Department of Sociology | Department of Informatics
• St. Andrew's University (Momoyama Gakuin Univ.) / * Faculty of Sociology
• Kobe University / Faculty of Letters / Socilogy Department
• Kwansei Gakuin University / * Faculty of Sociology
• Konan University / Faculty of Letters / Department of Sociology
• Nara Women's University / Faculty of Letters | Faculty of Human Life and Environment | Graduate School of Human Culture
• Simane Univ. / Faculty of Social System
• Okayama University / * Faculty of Economics / *Staff
• Kibi International University / Faculty of International and Industrial Studies / * Department of International Comparative Sociology | * Department of Industrial Sociology
• Hiroshima Univ. / * Faculty of Education / Department of Education
• Yamaguchi University / Faculty of Humanities
• Kyushu University / Ropponmatsu Campus / Graduate School of Social and Cultural Studies
• Kyushu Institute of Technology / Division of Human Science
• Kumamoto University / Faculty of Literature / Depertment of Regional Science / *Sociology
• Kagoshima Woman's College / * Department of Human Studies / * Sociology Course
• University of the Ryukyus / * College of Law and Letters
• University of Surrey / Sociology
• University of Sydney / Faculty of Arts / Sociology
• Australian National University / CoombsWeb / Social Sciences WWW Virtual Library / Best of 1995
• Universiteit van Amsterdam / Faculteit der Politieke en Sociaal Culturele Wetenschappen / SocioSite
• Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison / Social Science / Center for Demography and Ecology

Personal Pages

• Kan'ichi Abe Home Page (Kan'ichi ABE: Univ. of Tokyo) Socio-Economics,Cultural Studies,Reserches about Information Society and Comsumption
• Kabe on the net! (Koya ABE: Shizukoka Univ.) Conversation Analysis
• AKAGAWA's HomePage (Akagawa Manabu: Okayama Univ.) Historiccal Sociology, Gender/Sexuality
• AkamacHomePage (Akama Michio: Ehime Univ.) Economic and Social Thought
• * Osyaberi na Heya [Room of the Talkative] (Aoki Sigenobu: Gunma University) Statistics and Text Processing
• * Mienai Daigaku Honpo: Dennou Bunkou [Invisible Univ.: WWW Branch] (Ashihara Gaikichi?) Lectures by Asaba Mitiaki, Principal
• routes (AWATANI, Yoshiji: Doshisha Univ.) Cultural Studies
• Kazuo Fujimoto HomePage (Fujimoto Kazuo: Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.) Communication and Network
• Internet Survey Watching / Links (Hagiwara Masayuki: Recruit) Internet Resources on Marketing and Social Survey
• * Philosophia (Hamada Hirosi: Kwansei Gakuin Univ.) Mathematical Sociology
• * Online magazin[sic] USAGIYA (Haneko) Mass Media, Social Problem, and Male/Female
• * Kenkyu-situ No.203 [Room No.203] (Tohru HARADA: Otemon Gakuin Univ.) Sociology of Knowledge and Study of Contemporary Culture
• Hashizume Lab (Hashizume Daisaburo: Tokyo Institute of Technology) Sociological Theory, Sociology of Religion and Study of Contemporary Culture
• DUCE h.p. (Akihiko Hiyoshi: Seizyou Univ.) Theory of Mass Communication and Media
• Prof. HIRANO Hideaki's Site (HIRANO Hideaki: Hosei Univ.)
• * Inaba Shin-ichiro no Home Page [Shin-ichiro Inaba's Pages] (Shin-ichiro Inaba: Okayama Univ.) Socialphilosophy, Cultural Studies
• * Inoue Akira no Oheya ni Youkoso [Welcome to Akira Inoue's Room!] (Akira Inoue: Univ. of Tokyo) Socialphilosophy
• * Ishitobi Honnin ni yoru Go-aisatu [Ishitobi's Greeting] (Ishitobi Kazuhiko: Tenri Univ.) Sociology of Education
• * Riverside Town (Hideo Itagaki: Tsuru Univ.) Sociology of Japanese Cultural System
• * Kagaku to Syakai wo Kangaeru Do-you Kouza [Saturday School on Science and Social Problems]
• * Daisuke Kanda's perspective (Daisuke Kanda: Hitotsubashi Univ.) Watching Everyday Life with a Sociological View
• Shiro Kashimura's Home Page (Shiro Kashimura: Kobe Univ.) Sociology of Law and Ethnomethodology
• Theories of Gender and Sexuality (KATO Shuichi: Meizi Gakuin Univ.) Gender and Sexuality
• Tetsuro KATO's Homepage (Tetsuro KATO: Hitotsubashi Univ.) Politics
• The Han World (Kim MyungSoo) Statistical Analysis of Ethnicity
• * KISI's Socio-Log Book / * Links (KISI Masahiko: Osaka City Univ.) Cultural Studies
• Tetsuo Kogawa's Polymorphous Space (Tetsuo Kogawa) Media and Network
• * Masuda (Masuda Satoshi: Osaka Univ.) Study of Popular Music
• * Keiryou Syakai-kagaku Workshop [Quantitative Methods of Social Sciencies Workshop] (Nozomu MATSUBARA et al.: University of Tokyo)
• * Men's Center Japan
• * Men's Lib. Tokyo
• Taisuke Miyauchi's Home Page (Taisuke Miyauchi: Hokkaido Univ.) Aria Studies
• unOfficial Ethnomethodology homepage (Mizukawa, Yoshifumi)
• KR (Kyoshinken Review) (Kazuo MORI: Shinshu Univ.) Though Mori-san is a cognitive psychologist, he looks at science activities from somewhat sociological angle.
• * Syakaigaku no Iroha [The ABC of Sociology] (Kanji Murakami: Osaka Univ.) Collection of Sociological Words
• * Asao Naito (Asao Naito: Univ. of Tokyo) Sociology of Izime [Sociology of Bullying]
• Socioanalysis Website (Masahiro Nakano: Oita Univ.)
• * Polylogos (Gen Nakayama and Mari Futaki) Philosophic Magazine Online
• * SOCIUS / * Links (Nomura Kazuo)
• Toshimaru Ogura HOME PAGE (Toshimaru Ogura: Toyama Univ.) Political Economy (Marxian Economics), Contemporary Capitalism, and Information Capitalism
• T. Oishi's Homepage (Takahisa Oishi: Takusyoku Univ.) History of Economic Thought
• * Syakaigaku-kagyou, Kazoku-tosei. [Sociology of Family is My Business] (OKAMOTO Asaya: Kansai Univ.) Archaeology of Family
• * Meisyou Mi-settei [Untitled] (OSHITA, Tsuyoshi: Univ. of Tokyo)
• * Niti-you Syakaigaku [Sunday Sociology] (SAKAI Taitoh) Writing about Niklas Luhmanns
• * Gendai Media Bunka-ron, Sakurai Yosio, Douzi-sinkou-gata Titeki-tankyuu Kozin-si [Theory of Contemporary Media Culture, Sakurai Yosio; Up-to-date Intellectual Search Magazine] (Sakurai Yosio: Kagosima Univ.)
• * FUMIKA's Homepage (Sato Fumika: Keio Univ.) Gender, Feminism and Nationarity
• * Sechiyama Kenkyu-situ [Sechiyama Lab] (Sechiyama Kaku: Univ. of Tokyo) Gender and Comparative Sociology
• * simizui (Manabu Simizu: Otemon Gakuin Univ.) Study of Contemporary Culture, Socioloy of Literature, and Sociology of Knowledge
• * Socio-kun no "Koukousei no tame no Syakaigaku Kouza" [Socio-kun's "Lecture to High School Students on Sociology"] (Socio-kun: Otemon Gakuin Univ.)
• * sugita-zemi (Atusi Sugita Seminar: Hosei Univ.) Politics
• Akeo TABATA (Akeo TABATA: Kobe Univ.) Information Society, Media Study
• * TAKADA Hirosi's Front Page (TAKADA Hirosi: Tokyo Metropolitan Univ,) Social stratification, lifestyles, and democracy
• * Myriel (Takahasi June: Fukushima Univ.) Women's Studies, Gender, and Feminism.
• * You are on the Mediaage (Norihiko TAKAHIRO) Study of Media Culture
• * Seimei, Ningen, Syakai [Life, Human and Society] (* Tateiwa Sinya, * Tamai Mariko, * Nagase Osamu) Information about Bioethics on WWW
• TANAKA Sigeto (Osaka Univ.) Qualitative studies on the sexual division of labor in Japan
• * K-taro's WebPage (Uchida Keitaro: Kwansei Gakuin Univ.) Internet and E-text
• Communication Amplifier (Harumichi YAMADA: Tokyo Keizai Univ.) Communication Media, Socio-economic Geography, and Theory of Populer Culture
• YAMANAKA HOMEPAGE (Yamanaka Hayato: Tokyo Keizai Univ.) Media theory and Area Study
• K. Yamasaki's Home Page (Yamasaki Kaworu: Tokyo Keizai Univ.) Latin America, e-text, etc.
• * Yasukawa's Office (Hajime Yasukawa: Hitotsubashi Univ.) Micro-Sociology
• * Yoshino-san no Eigyou [Sale of Yoshino-san's Sociological Works] (Yoshino Hiroko: Waseda Univ.) Sociology of Literature
• One More Cup of Coffee / Media and Popular Culture (Watanabe Jun: Tokyo Keizai Univ.)
• Norbert Elias and Process Sociology
• International Figurational Studies
• Literature and Process Sociology
• Bakhtin Centre
• Herbert Marshall McLuhan Foundation (Media Theory)

Academic Societies and Research Groupes

• Japan Sociological Society / Links
• * Kantoh Sociological Society / *Links
• * Kansai Sociological Society (Unofficial page by Yoshida Jun)
• Japan Society of Educational Sociology
• * Japanese Association of Labor Sociology
• * Japan Society of Family Sociology (tentative site)
• Japanese Association for Mathematical Sociology
• Behaviormetric Society of Japan
• * Society for the Study of Social Policy
• * Japanese Society of Social Psychology
• Population Association of Japan / *Links
• Japan Society for Socio-Information Studies
• * Japan Association for Social Informatics
• Japanese Association for the Study of Popular Music
• * Japan Society of Sport Sociology
• * Japanese Association for the Study of Religion and Society
• * Nittyu Syakaigakkai [Japan Society of Japanese-Chinese Sociology]
• * Japan Academic Arcadia (Kansai Chapter Agent)
• Japanese Association of Sociological Criminology
• * International Society of Social Theory (Japan)
• * Japan Association for the Study on the History of Sociolgy
• European Sociological Association
• Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association
• American Sociological Association
• International Sociological Association
• National Council on Family Relations (USA)

• Society for the Study of Working Women
• * Gengo Kenkyuukai
• * Syakai Bunka Riron Kenkyuukai (Shabunken)
• * Gendai Huuzoku Kenkyuukai (Genpooken)
• * Kansai Kazoku Syakaigaku Kenkyuukai (KAFS)
• * Kansai Suuri Syakaigaku Kenkyuukai
• * Rinsyou Tetugaku Kenkyuukai | * Records
• * Gendai Syakai Riron Kenkyuukai (Osaka)
• * Gendai Syakai Riron Kenkyuukai (Tokyo) - Not found (2000-01-12)
• * Syakai Riron Kenkyuukai - Not found (2000-01-12)
• * Cultural Studies Forum
• * Hikaku Tyuukansou Kenkyuukai
• * Syakai Kagaku no Houhou Kenkyuukai
• * Idoutai Medhia Kenkyuukai
• * Seikatu Kankyou Kenkyuukai - Not found (2000-01-12)
• Analytical Marxism Research Group
• * Syakai Undou Kenkyuukai - Not found (2000-01-12)
• Women's Studies Society of Japan (VOWWW)
• * Tohoku Sociological Association
• * Syakaikagaku Kisoron Kenkyuukai

Companies

• Sociological Abstracts / InterLink
• Statistical lnformation Institute for Consulting and Analysis
• SPSS Inc. / Japan / Books
• SAS Institute / Japanese | Europe
• * Electronic Information Network for Citizens, Limited Inc. / * Jca-Net / * Information about Citizen Movements
• * Oya Bunko

Indexes

• GLOCOM / * Online Resource Locator / * by subjects | * by authors | *search
• VCOM / Women's Online Media / Database on Women
• Social Constractionism Bibliography (Nakagawa Nobutosi: Toyama University / Faculty of Humanity)
• Nara Women's University / Library / Women's Studies Bibliography
• Library OPAC List (in Japan) (Hayasi Tz.)
• Library (Hayasi Tz.)
• Governmental Statistics
• Government and Municipal Offices (Okabayasi Tetsuo)
• Public Organizations (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
• Humanity and Social Sciences WWW Servers List (GOTOO Hitosi @ Tohoku Univ.)
• Education Information on Research (Ito Itto: Tosa Women's College)
• Links on Philosophy, Ethics, Religion in Japan (Nagasaki: Tsukuba Univ.)
• Worldwide Sociology Resources
• WWW Virtual Library: Sociology
• Yahoo! / Social Science / Sociology
• * Yahoo! Japan / * Social Science / * Sociology
• * Lycos Japan / * Society and mass media / *Sociology
• Index of Japanese Universities (Harumichi YAMADA at Tokyo Keizai Univ.)
• Association of International Education, Japan / Universities by major fields / Sociology
• East Asian Library (UCLA)
• Humanities HUB
• A Sociological Tour Through Cyberspace
• The SocioWeb
• Documents Center, University of Michigan / Statistical Resources on the Web
• Social Sciences & Humanities INFOMINE (University of California)
• Search Japan Sociology Contents on the Web (Satoh Yutaka at Toyama Univ.).

SSM (Social Stratification and Social Mobility) project has collected personal histories, concerned with social status and inequality, with national representative samples in Japan. At 1955 the first survey was conducted by the Japanese Association of Sociology. http://www.nik.sal.tohoku.ac.jp/~tsigeto/ssm/e.html

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