Tōru Kikkawa
Biographic Data
| ID | 5814464 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tōru Kikkawa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tōru |
| FAMILY NAME | Kikkawa |
| SIGNATURE | KIKKAWA T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Osaka University of Human Sciences |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Movement behind the Scenes
Since the economic boom of the 1970s, Japan was generally discussed as a mass middle-class society. This image was based less on objective status indicators and more on the fact that over 90% of Japanese self-identify as middle class. Even with an increase in income inequality and the onset of the discourse on Japan as a gap society since the mid-2000s, the distribution of self-identification has hardly changed. However, this does not mean that t…
Work made us what we are
Effect of Educational Expansion on Educational Inequality in Post‐industrialized Societies
This paper analyzes the relationship between educational expansion and educational inequality. I first reconsider the conceptual basis of educational expansion, noting that in post‐industrialized societies, people's educational attainment is no longer measurable in a simple temporal increase because of the recent leveling‐off in the younger generation. I then review the theoretical framework of educational inequality. After presenting a summary o…
Changes in the Determinants of Class Identification in Japan
Along with the high growth of the Japanese economy, there was a gradual shift in class identification from “the lower (class)” to “the middle (class).” About 75 percent of Japanese people identified themselves as middle class in 1975. However, because the distribution of identification has not changed dramatically since 1975, it should be reexamined.In this article, the same linear causal model is applied to the male samples of the Social Stratif…
School Education and Democratization of Social Consciousness in Postwar Japan
L'A. etudie le lien entre education scolaire et democratisation de la « conscience sociale » dans le Japon de l'apres-guerre. Il s'efforce de clarifier la notion de « conscience sociale ». Il analyse l'impact de la duree de la scolarite sur les attitudes liees au conservatisme autoritaire omnipresent dans la societe japonaise traditionnelle. Pour ce faire, il examine un certain nombre de donnees collectees en 1996 concernant les individus nes ent…
Guest Editor’s Introduction
This article introduces the contributions in this special issue of the International Journal of Sociology and demonstrates their usefulness for elUCidating a tabula-rasa hypothesis as it applies to public opinion in Eastern Europe. This hypothesis states that an unexpected revolution in communist societies caught people unprepared for a transition to democracy and a free market economy, and that this state of affairs is manifested in weakly inter…
Changes in the Determinants of Class Identification in Japan
Along with the high growth of the Japanese economy, there was a gradual shift in class identification from “the lower (class)” to “the middle (class).” About 75 percent of Japanese people identified themselves as middle class in 1975. However, because the distribution of identification has not changed dramatically since 1975, it should be reexamined.In this article, the same linear causal model is applied to the male samples of the Social Stratif…
Guest Editor’s Introduction
This article introduces the contributions in this special issue of the International Journal of Sociology and demonstrates their usefulness for elUCidating a tabula-rasa hypothesis as it applies to public opinion in Eastern Europe. This hypothesis states that an unexpected revolution in communist societies caught people unprepared for a transition to democracy and a free market economy, and that this state of affairs is manifested in weakly inter…
School Education and Democratization of Social Consciousness in Postwar Japan
L'A. etudie le lien entre education scolaire et democratisation de la « conscience sociale » dans le Japon de l'apres-guerre. Il s'efforce de clarifier la notion de « conscience sociale ». Il analyse l'impact de la duree de la scolarite sur les attitudes liees au conservatisme autoritaire omnipresent dans la societe japonaise traditionnelle. Pour ce faire, il examine un certain nombre de donnees collectees en 1996 concernant les individus nes ent…
Guest Editor’s Introduction
This article introduces the contributions in this special issue of the International Journal of Sociology and demonstrates their usefulness for elUCidating a tabula-rasa hypothesis as it applies to public opinion in Eastern Europe. This hypothesis states that an unexpected revolution in communist societies caught people unprepared for a transition to democracy and a free market economy, and that this state of affairs is manifested in weakly inter…
Changes in the Determinants of Class Identification in Japan
Along with the high growth of the Japanese economy, there was a gradual shift in class identification from “the lower (class)” to “the middle (class).” About 75 percent of Japanese people identified themselves as middle class in 1975. However, because the distribution of identification has not changed dramatically since 1975, it should be reexamined.In this article, the same linear causal model is applied to the male samples of the Social Stratif…
Effect of Educational Expansion on Educational Inequality in Post‐industrialized Societies
This paper analyzes the relationship between educational expansion and educational inequality. I first reconsider the conceptual basis of educational expansion, noting that in post‐industrialized societies, people's educational attainment is no longer measurable in a simple temporal increase because of the recent leveling‐off in the younger generation. I then review the theoretical framework of educational inequality. After presenting a summary o…
Work made us what we are
Movement behind the Scenes
Since the economic boom of the 1970s, Japan was generally discussed as a mass middle-class society. This image was based less on objective status indicators and more on the fact that over 90% of Japanese self-identify as middle class. Even with an increase in income inequality and the onset of the discourse on Japan as a gap society since the mid-2000s, the distribution of self-identification has hardly changed. However, this does not mean that t…
Economics (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Demographic economics (3 works) · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Democracy (2 works) · Demography (2 works) · Mathematics (2 works)