Nobuhiko Nibe
Professor, Sociology Department at School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University. Prior to this, he completed his B.A. and M.A. at Tokyo University and worked as an assistant professor. After coordinating efforts to establish the Tokai Sociological Society in Chubu (Central) Area with other founders, he is also serving as director of the Japan Sociological Society. His books include Transformation of Social Stratification and Group Formation (2006) and Toyota City and Toyota Motor (2014).
Having completed Ph D on theoretical relationship of group formation to class structure at Nagoya University (2004), his main concern has shifted toward urban study and community study, to apply and examine the ideas of earlier research. Funded by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), he has been continuously engaged in empirical research in industrial cities such as Toyota City, Kariya City and Yokkaichi City (well known for its past environmental pollution). In recent years, he was invited to Hongkong City University, Fu Jen Catholic University, Jiling University, Nanjing University, Seoul National University, etc. as a guest speaker or visiting scholar.
Mari Nakamura
Professor of Sociology at the Nagoya Bunri University. The author of Dynamics of Symbol Structure and Collective Action(2012). Her current research interests include dietary habits and collective actions in rural communities.
Hiroshi Yamaguchi Associate Professor at the Faculty of letters in Tsuru University. His primary research interest is the linguistic conflict between French and Dutch speakers in the periphery of Brussels (Belgium) from an organizational structure perspective. Now he expands his research interest to the national minority issues and border studies. Yamaguchi examines the situation of Japanese South American immigrants and the organizational networks for theirsocial integration in Japanese industrial cities. In addition, he keeps engaging intranational migration as his research interests in Japan. In last domain, he won an academic paper award of Japan Association for Regional and Community Studies on 2019.
1 Ebooks bởi Nobuhiko Nibe
Nobuhiko Nibe & Mari Nakamura: Toyota City in Transition
This informative monograph focuses on the city of Toyota, located in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. Aside from the fact that most Toyota passenger vehicles are produced there, generally little is known abo …
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