TAROHMARU Hiroshi

Associate Professor, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University

 
Principal Academic Contributions

Hiroshi TAROHMARU, 2005, Introduction to Categorical Data Analysis for Socio-Human Sciences, Nakanisiya publishing house.

Hiroshi TAROHMARU, 2006, Sociology of Freeters and Neets, Sekaishisousha publishing house.

Hiroshi TAROHMARU, 2009, Sociology of Young Non-Standard Employees, Osaka University publishing house.

Hiroshi TAROHMARU, 2005, “Rational Choice Theory: Action and Rationality”, in Knowledge about ’Society, The Theory and Methods of Modern Sociology, Book I: Theoretical Knowledge Today, Kazuo Seiyama, Manabu Tsuchiba, Daishiro Nomiya and Teruya Oda (eds.), Keisou Shobo publishing house, pp.121-138.

Hiroshi TAROHMARU, 2006, “Research on the Development of Sociological Theory: Using Laudan's Scientific Philosophy of Research Traditions”, in Japanese Sociological Review 57(1): pp.41-57.

Hiroshi TAROHMARU, 2007, “Rational Choice Theory on Class Differential in Educational Attainment: a Test of Relative Risk Aversion Hypothesis with 1995 SSM Survey Data”, Bulletin, Graduate School of Human Sciences of Osaka University 33, pp. 201-212.

Hiroshi TAROHMARU, 2007, “Youth underemployment and gender in Japan: does sex-role attitude make young women become "freeters"?”, in Soshioroji, 52(1): pp.37-51.

Hiroshi TAROHMARU and Takashi Yoshida, 2007, “Unemployment Spells and Consciousness of Japanese Youth: Does YARITAIKOTO Shorten Job-Seek Spells?”, in Sociological Theory and Methods 22(2): pp. 155-168.

Hiroshi TAROHMARU, 2008, “Theory of Social Class and Young Non-Standard Employment”, in Social Stratification (Sociology Lecture No. 13), Atsushi Naoi and Hidenori Fujita (eds.), Tokyo University Press, pp.201-220.

Hiroshi TAROHMARU, Namie Nagamatsu and Yusuke Sakaguchi, 2009, “Formulation of Job Complexity Score: Proposal for an Occupational Index That Reflects Job Content”, in “Sociological Theory and Methods 24(1): pp. 77-93.

 
GCOE Research Committee: RC Theory

 
Current Research Subject and Aspirations toward the GCOE
Currently my research subject can be roughly divided into two fields. The first one is about Non-Standard Employment and Social Class. The increase of Non-standard Employment, particularly among young people, has been socially noticed but, I am trying to find out what position it has within the social structure of Japan. I am researching why there is a gap between the incomes of Standard and Non-standard employees, why women that work as non-standard employees delay their marriage age, and if non-standard employees are becoming standard employees or not.
My second research field is Sociology of Sociology and Social Epistemology. Although the problem of how sociology should be has been widely treated by Japanese historians and/or theoreticians of Sociology, I am trying at present to approach it by a different way. In other words, the ‘Sociology of Sociology’. I am thinking what way the Japanese Sociology should follow by making clear what the actual achievements of Sociology are. In this year I have analyzed the methods of the papers and thesis published in “Japanese Sociological Review” and “Soshioroji” magazines. I would like to contribute to the GCOE through theory.

 
Activities within the GCOE
1) Committee/ Roles, etc.
Not yet defined
2) Research Project
No.
3) Academic Presentations within the activities of this GCOE (since July 2008 on), etc.
No.

|3,955 閲覧件数