{"title":"Theoretische und Praktische Aspekte der Eliteforschung","authors":"C. Schmidt","doi":"10.15057/8281","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15057/8281","url":null,"abstract":"Die Untersuchung von Führungsgruppen einer Gesellschaft ist aus verschiedenen Gründen problematisch. So besteht eine unüberschaubare Zahl von Begriffen zur Bezeichnung derselben, über deren Verwendung kein Konsens besteht. Vertreter aus Politik, Wirtschaft oder Bürokratie werden als ” politische Elite“ bezeichnet oder auch als ” politische Klasse“, wobei diese Bezeichnungen synonym auch im Sinne von ” Spitzenpolitiker“ gebraucht werden. Daneben existiert noch eine ganze Anzahl weiterer Bezeichnungen wie ” herrschende Klasse“,","PeriodicalId":335834,"journal":{"name":"Hitotsubashi journal of social studies","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122764063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the Universality of Language Education : What Jan Amos Komensky (Comenius) Has Taught to a Japanese Language Teacher","authors":"H. Matsuoka","doi":"10.15057/8279","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15057/8279","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":335834,"journal":{"name":"Hitotsubashi journal of social studies","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128509241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Zeitlichkeit und Raumlichkeit im Hinblick auf die Traditionelle Japanische Zeitmessung","authors":"Tomonaga Tairako","doi":"10.15057/8283","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15057/8283","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":335834,"journal":{"name":"Hitotsubashi journal of social studies","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128020058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K. Seki, Reiko Mihara, Miyuki Ohta, W. Araki, Sumiko Kamitani
{"title":"Beyond Silence : Social and Historical Reflections upon Educational Projects for Minority Groups","authors":"K. Seki, Reiko Mihara, Miyuki Ohta, W. Araki, Sumiko Kamitani","doi":"10.15057/8282","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15057/8282","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":335834,"journal":{"name":"Hitotsubashi journal of social studies","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121274847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social Cleavages, Voter Alignment, and Dealignment in Japan","authors":"C. Schmidt","doi":"10.15057/8284","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15057/8284","url":null,"abstract":"Starting from an interpretation of the cleavage-theory as a dynamic model of “freezing” and “unfreezing” of party systems and voter alignments, this paper tries to ascertain the major cleavage structures that have conditioned the development of the Japanese party system. After its formation in 1955, the post-war party system was mainly based on two cleavages — one economic and the other a cultural cleavage — but we have seen a growing tendency towards “unfreezing” since the early 70s. Neither the LDP nor the SDPJ, the two most important post-war parties, were able to transform themselves into catch-all parties, which led to a dramatic increase in the number of non-party supporters and floating voters. This dealignment brought about an instability of the system and a great fluidity in party labels in the 90s. The current system seems to be based on conflicts within the established elite rather than on social cleavages. The “unfreezing” of the system, and its further untying from the social structure, could cause a further weakening of its acceptance among the electorate.","PeriodicalId":335834,"journal":{"name":"Hitotsubashi journal of social studies","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123878119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Two Logics of Network and Three Models of Network Society","authors":"Shujiro Yazawa","doi":"10.15057/8285","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15057/8285","url":null,"abstract":"century: From Friction to Coexistence” held in Tokyo in autumn of 2000,Professor Sang-Jin Han raised the following very interesting points of argument (HanSang-Jin, 2001, pp.194-214).He examines the relationship between the Internet and culture. He thinks “we need toopenly examine how East Asian cultures might respond to the coming age of an informationsociety.” He begins “by asking why Japan lags behind the U.S. in the area of informationtechnology and the IT related industries.” He “can wonder if the Japanese became intoxicated,at least, to some extent. They might tacitly have assumed that what they need to do in anysituation is just to follow their own model of development with some, when needed, revisions.”“In addition to this lack of political will, Japan has also made some technical misjudgment”like huge investment in ISDN. But he paid much more attentions to “the relationship betweenthe Internet as open networks and social changes.” In order “to deal with the e#ect of the ITrevolution on the changing pattern of organization,” he uses Masahiko Aoki’s “distinction ofthree modes of organization, namely the ‘water-fall’ model, horizontal hierarchy, and theSilicon Valley phenomena.” According to Aoki, thanks to horizontal hierarchy that “refers toa specific innovation aimed at overcoming the di$culties associated with” the hierarchicallyintegrated mode of organization, Japanese firms have been able to maintain a “fine-coordination of their internal activities”, because this innovation makes possible “informationfeed-back from lower levels to upper levels, as well as horizontal information sharing acrossdi#erent tasks unit.” But Internet-based open unlimited competition has made “an onceadvantageous characteristic of the Japanese firms into somewhat disadvantageous.” “Informa-tion sharing within an organization and emphasis on firm-specific expertise are becomingrelatively more costly.” Professor Han does not stop here. With Mr. Kokuryo, he has “takenup this perspective further to thematize a structural conflicts between a lean production systemand modularity.” “Integral design requires a high degree of communication among thoseinvolved.” “By contrast, modular structure allows engineers to work autonomously bydesigning in redundant capacities.” Here he finds “a di#erent grammar of work between","PeriodicalId":335834,"journal":{"name":"Hitotsubashi journal of social studies","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128131224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Globalization, Culture and Technology : The Case of Korean Machine Translation","authors":"Jonathan Lewis","doi":"10.15057/8287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15057/8287","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":335834,"journal":{"name":"Hitotsubashi journal of social studies","volume":"62 6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128237399","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Marx on Capitalist Globalization","authors":"Tomonaga Tairako","doi":"10.15057/8286","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15057/8286","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":335834,"journal":{"name":"Hitotsubashi journal of social studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115491188","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Japanese Regulation and Governance in Restructuring: Ten Years after the ‘Post-Fordist Japan’ Debate","authors":"Tetsuro Kato","doi":"10.15057/8292","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15057/8292","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":335834,"journal":{"name":"Hitotsubashi journal of social studies","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126694089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Demystifying the Service Economy","authors":"Masao Watanabe","doi":"10.15057/8294","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15057/8294","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":335834,"journal":{"name":"Hitotsubashi journal of social studies","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116846881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}