AOKI, Hideo

 

 

     Affiliation and Position

 

       Ph.D., Sociology

      Chief-Director, Institute of Social Theory and Dynamics  
      Chief-Director, Institute of Hiroshima Buraku Liberation Research

 

   Feild of Study

 

        Research of urban bottom people; yoseba (day laborer's district),

      homelessness in Osaka and Tokyo in Japan, and informal settlement

      and homelessness in Metro Manila, Philippines

   

      Research of Japanese modernization; the buraku problem, the

      mental structure of soldier in Asia-Pacific War, and the life history

      of a craftsman of marquetry in Kanazawa City, Japan

 

    Research Theme

 

      Sociology of urban bottom people, which aims to study yoseba (day

     laborer's district), homelessness in modern Japan and vagrancy in

     the pre-war period, to study informal settlement and homelessness in

     Metro Manila from the standpoint of international comparison, and finally

     aim to construct a theory on the global city in the earlier developed and

     late-developing countries focusing on the bottom people.

 

     Key words: urban bottom people, vagrancy, globalization

   

     Sociology of Japanese modernization, which aims to study the buraku

     problem, the mental structure of soldier and the life history of a

     craftsman of marquetry in Kanazawa City focusing on the impact of

     modernization to the ordinary people and to consider its meaning in

     contemporary Japanese society.

 

     Key words: modernization, ordinary people, mental structure

   

   Achievement   

    

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