Kenji Kosaka
Biographic Data
| ID | 121441 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kenji Kosaka |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kenji |
| FAMILY NAME | Kosaka |
| SIGNATURE | KOSAKA K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kwansei Gakuin University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Kurauchi, Kazuta (1896–1988)
Kazuta Kurauchi was born in Okayama Prefecture in Japan. His father was the head of Chinese classics at Kojokan, a local private school specializing in Chinese literature studies. From his early days, Kurauchi was greatly influenced both by Keiken Sakata, the famous scholar who owned and managed the school he attended, and by his father
A Paradox of Economic Growth and Relative Deprivation
Rapid economic growth sometimes intensifies people's frustration. In this article, we attempt to formulate this kind of paradox of economic growth, and to explain theoretically how economic growth increases people's dissatisfaction by way of the notion of relative deprivation by employing the theoretical framework of Yitzhaki's relative deprivation index. We introduce the problem of the China puzzle as the latest case of the paradox. Then, we int…
A Sociology for Happiness
The present paper presents a theoretical and empirical perspective of sociology for happiness -which goes beyond western versus non western perspective. Two basic views of happiness, active and passive, are derived speculatively; from each of which two further types, modest and expansionistic, are elaborated. Empirical analysis of the data suggests that the Japanese people have different types of views of happiness. A Boolean approach is also use…
Theory Construction in Sociology
There is an urgent need for sociological inspiration and intellect to construct original sociological theories. However, even more pressing is the need for scientific “formulae” or norms to be followed. The author pointed out in an earlier study that there are three types of theories in sociology: general theory, historical theory, and normative theory. The present paper claims the necessity of the following aspects that are common to the aboveme…
Determinants of Linguistic Human Rights Movements
This paper applies a Boolean approach to examine the social background of movements for linguistic human rights. Predictive determinants to explain the occurrence of LHRs movements in this study included linguistic diversity within a country literacy rate, population size, national income as an index of affluence, and the existence of a constitution supporting those rights. Data for 159 countries were collected and analyzed using a Boolean analys…
Generating Images of Stratification
Predictions for Social Research on Line
Review of: Josselson, Ruthellen and Amia Lieblich (1999) Making Meaning of Narratives. Sage Publications: London
Social Stratification in Contemporary Japan
Advances in E-state structuralism
Towards a further analysis of narratives
The present paper attempts to extend the comparative method of narratives by Peter Abell by incorporating Robert E Bale's idea of interaction process analysis. Thereby, descriptions and analysis of syntax of social life would be elaborated further by retaining the information on who interacts with whom and on the nature of interaction with respect to Bales’ categories
Generating images of the shape of a class system
This paper builds on a formal theory of how certain observable properties of images of stratification and self‐location within an image are generated in ordinary social interactioa The new element is the attention to shape, involving the transformation of an actual distribution of actors in class locations into some distribution image. Such an image may resemble a simple form, such as a diamond or pyramid. As in all our work, such images depend u…
IKI no Kozo Revisited (reply to Everett)
An algebraic reinterpretation of Iki No Kozo (Structure of Iki)
IKI NO KOZO (The Structure of IKI), authored by Shuzo Kuki in 1930, has been an influential piece of work on Japanese culture with its emphasis on IKI as an aesthetical cultural entity. The present paper attempts to reformulate the structure of IKI depicted by Kuki in terms of a group theory in mathematics. By deriving various implications from a group‐theoretic model of IKI, I want to show the significance of mathematical approaches to culture
Mathematical sociology in Japan
A model of relative deprivation
(1986). A model of relative deprivation. The Journal of Mathematical Sociology: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 35-48
Power and Control
A mathematical analysis of Boudon's IEO model
A model of relative deprivation
(1986). A model of relative deprivation. The Journal of Mathematical Sociology: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 35-48
Power and Control
A Paradox of Economic Growth and Relative Deprivation
Rapid economic growth sometimes intensifies people's frustration. In this article, we attempt to formulate this kind of paradox of economic growth, and to explain theoretically how economic growth increases people's dissatisfaction by way of the notion of relative deprivation by employing the theoretical framework of Yitzhaki's relative deprivation index. We introduce the problem of the China puzzle as the latest case of the paradox. Then, we int…
A Sociology for Happiness
The present paper presents a theoretical and empirical perspective of sociology for happiness -which goes beyond western versus non western perspective. Two basic views of happiness, active and passive, are derived speculatively; from each of which two further types, modest and expansionistic, are elaborated. Empirical analysis of the data suggests that the Japanese people have different types of views of happiness. A Boolean approach is also use…
A mathematical analysis of Boudon's IEO model
Determinants of Linguistic Human Rights Movements
This paper applies a Boolean approach to examine the social background of movements for linguistic human rights. Predictive determinants to explain the occurrence of LHRs movements in this study included linguistic diversity within a country literacy rate, population size, national income as an index of affluence, and the existence of a constitution supporting those rights. Data for 159 countries were collected and analyzed using a Boolean analys…
Generating images of the shape of a class system
This paper builds on a formal theory of how certain observable properties of images of stratification and self‐location within an image are generated in ordinary social interactioa The new element is the attention to shape, involving the transformation of an actual distribution of actors in class locations into some distribution image. Such an image may resemble a simple form, such as a diamond or pyramid. As in all our work, such images depend u…
An algebraic reinterpretation of Iki No Kozo (Structure of Iki)
IKI NO KOZO (The Structure of IKI), authored by Shuzo Kuki in 1930, has been an influential piece of work on Japanese culture with its emphasis on IKI as an aesthetical cultural entity. The present paper attempts to reformulate the structure of IKI depicted by Kuki in terms of a group theory in mathematics. By deriving various implications from a group‐theoretic model of IKI, I want to show the significance of mathematical approaches to culture
Mathematical sociology in Japan
A mathematical analysis of Boudon's IEO model
Power and Control
A model of relative deprivation
(1986). A model of relative deprivation. The Journal of Mathematical Sociology: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 35-48
An algebraic reinterpretation of Iki No Kozo (Structure of Iki)
IKI NO KOZO (The Structure of IKI), authored by Shuzo Kuki in 1930, has been an influential piece of work on Japanese culture with its emphasis on IKI as an aesthetical cultural entity. The present paper attempts to reformulate the structure of IKI depicted by Kuki in terms of a group theory in mathematics. By deriving various implications from a group‐theoretic model of IKI, I want to show the significance of mathematical approaches to culture
Mathematical sociology in Japan
IKI no Kozo Revisited (reply to Everett)
Generating images of the shape of a class system
This paper builds on a formal theory of how certain observable properties of images of stratification and self‐location within an image are generated in ordinary social interactioa The new element is the attention to shape, involving the transformation of an actual distribution of actors in class locations into some distribution image. Such an image may resemble a simple form, such as a diamond or pyramid. As in all our work, such images depend u…
Towards a further analysis of narratives
The present paper attempts to extend the comparative method of narratives by Peter Abell by incorporating Robert E Bale's idea of interaction process analysis. Thereby, descriptions and analysis of syntax of social life would be elaborated further by retaining the information on who interacts with whom and on the nature of interaction with respect to Bales’ categories
Advances in E-state structuralism
Social Stratification in Contemporary Japan
Predictions for Social Research on Line
Review of: Josselson, Ruthellen and Amia Lieblich (1999) Making Meaning of Narratives. Sage Publications: London
Generating Images of Stratification
Theory Construction in Sociology
There is an urgent need for sociological inspiration and intellect to construct original sociological theories. However, even more pressing is the need for scientific “formulae” or norms to be followed. The author pointed out in an earlier study that there are three types of theories in sociology: general theory, historical theory, and normative theory. The present paper claims the necessity of the following aspects that are common to the aboveme…
Determinants of Linguistic Human Rights Movements
This paper applies a Boolean approach to examine the social background of movements for linguistic human rights. Predictive determinants to explain the occurrence of LHRs movements in this study included linguistic diversity within a country literacy rate, population size, national income as an index of affluence, and the existence of a constitution supporting those rights. Data for 159 countries were collected and analyzed using a Boolean analys…
A Sociology for Happiness
The present paper presents a theoretical and empirical perspective of sociology for happiness -which goes beyond western versus non western perspective. Two basic views of happiness, active and passive, are derived speculatively; from each of which two further types, modest and expansionistic, are elaborated. Empirical analysis of the data suggests that the Japanese people have different types of views of happiness. A Boolean approach is also use…
A Paradox of Economic Growth and Relative Deprivation
Rapid economic growth sometimes intensifies people's frustration. In this article, we attempt to formulate this kind of paradox of economic growth, and to explain theoretically how economic growth increases people's dissatisfaction by way of the notion of relative deprivation by employing the theoretical framework of Yitzhaki's relative deprivation index. We introduce the problem of the China puzzle as the latest case of the paradox. Then, we int…
Kurauchi, Kazuta (1896–1988)
Kazuta Kurauchi was born in Okayama Prefecture in Japan. His father was the head of Chinese classics at Kojokan, a local private school specializing in Chinese literature studies. From his early days, Kurauchi was greatly influenced both by Keiken Sakata, the famous scholar who owned and managed the school he attended, and by his father
Sociology (12 works) · Social science (8 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Mathematics (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Biology (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Mathematical economics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Critical Realism in Sociology (3 works)