Kiyomi Sakai
Biographic Data
| ID | 630552 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kiyomi Sakai |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kiyomi |
| FAMILY NAME | Sakai |
| SIGNATURE | SAKAI K |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Tokyo |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4492-3715 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Functional differentiation in operation: Latent violence and colonial labor governance
Background This article develops a Luhmannian historical-sociological approach to functional differentiation by examining colonial labor governance in German South West Africa after the Herero and Nama War. It asks how the possibility of physical coercion was reconnected to everyday governance through labor regulation, police supervision, and vocabularies of protection and proper treatment. Methods The article uses a historical-sociological and c…
Potentializing physical violenceHistorical Sociology of Polizei and Sozialstaat from a system theoretical perspective
Violence as a means of threatening the life and health of others is the foundation of power structures. According to a system theoretical understanding, however, physical violence becomes the basis for the power medium only when it is potentialized as a possibility for the political system. This potential threat contributes to the exodus of the political system through the formation of political organizations. This paper examines this hypothesis …
Transforming Familialistic Youth Welfare Policies in East Asia: A Comparative Analysis of Changes in Higher Education Support Policies in Korea and Japan
In East Asia, higher education support policies (HESPs), as the core of the social policies targeting young people, have undergone a significant transformation since the 2000s. The aim of this article is to articulate the reformation process of HESPs by focusing on the National Student Loan system and to investigate whether support for youth is still considered a family responsibility in the post-2000s environment. The findings offer a crucial cl…
Realizing the existence of blind spots in the 'West: A systems-theoretical perspective
The aim of this paper is to define transcendental relativization, by using the binary in some anthropological works, and to give a description of it along with Niklas Luhmann's sociology. We examine how the binary [the West/non-West] has been used in some anthropological works and how it has contributed not only to understanding 'them' as a research object but also to realizing 'our' conceptual limitations. This paper is an attempt to deal with p…
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Realizing the existence of blind spots in the 'West: A systems-theoretical perspective
The aim of this paper is to define transcendental relativization, by using the binary in some anthropological works, and to give a description of it along with Niklas Luhmann's sociology. We examine how the binary [the West/non-West] has been used in some anthropological works and how it has contributed not only to understanding 'them' as a research object but also to realizing 'our' conceptual limitations. This paper is an attempt to deal with p…
Potentializing physical violenceHistorical Sociology of Polizei and Sozialstaat from a system theoretical perspective
Violence as a means of threatening the life and health of others is the foundation of power structures. According to a system theoretical understanding, however, physical violence becomes the basis for the power medium only when it is potentialized as a possibility for the political system. This potential threat contributes to the exodus of the political system through the formation of political organizations. This paper examines this hypothesis …
Transforming Familialistic Youth Welfare Policies in East Asia: A Comparative Analysis of Changes in Higher Education Support Policies in Korea and Japan
In East Asia, higher education support policies (HESPs), as the core of the social policies targeting young people, have undergone a significant transformation since the 2000s. The aim of this article is to articulate the reformation process of HESPs by focusing on the National Student Loan system and to investigate whether support for youth is still considered a family responsibility in the post-2000s environment. The findings offer a crucial cl…
Functional differentiation in operation: Latent violence and colonial labor governance
Background This article develops a Luhmannian historical-sociological approach to functional differentiation by examining colonial labor governance in German South West Africa after the Herero and Nama War. It asks how the possibility of physical coercion was reconnected to everyday governance through labor regulation, police supervision, and vocabularies of protection and proper treatment. Methods The article uses a historical-sociological and c…
Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (3 works) · Economics (2 works) · German (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Sociology and Norbert Elias (2 works) · Welfare (2 works) · Anthropology (1 works) · Artificial Intelligence (1 works) · Business (1 works)