SPECIAL SEMINAR IN SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION 2

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1. Introduction: Understanding Social Research and the Importance of the 'Sociological Imagination’ Readings: Ragin, Charles, Constructing Social Research, Pine Forge Press, 1994. Mills, C. Wright, The Sociological Imagination, Oxford University Press, 1959 (original), Chapters 1,3, and 8.
2. Meritocracy (1) What is meritocracy? Why is modern education seen as a tool for achieving meritocracy? Readings: Young, M., The Rise of Meritocracy, Routledge,1958 (original). Young, M., “Looking Back on Meritocracy,” The Political quarterly (London. 1930), 2006-06, Vol.77, p.73-77. Young, M., “Meritocracy Revisited”, Society, 1998-01, Vol.35 (2), p.377-379. Sandel, M., The Tyranny of Merit, Penguin Books, 2020, Chapters Introduction, 1-3.
3. Meritocracy (2) What is the Japanese version of meritocracy? How does it differ from the original one? Readings: Kariya, T., and Dore, R., “Japan at the meritocracy frontier: From here, where?”, The Political quarterly, 2006, Vol.77 (s1), p.134-156. Kariya, T and Rappleye J. (2020) Education, Equality, and Meritocracy in a Global Age, Teachers College Press (Free eBook is downloadable from the TCP website), Chapters 1, 2, 4, and 5.
4. Social mobility and education (1) How does modern education work and is it seen as an opportunity for social mobility? Readings: Kingsley Davis and Wilbert E. Moore, “Some Principles of Stratification”, American Sociological Review, 1945, Vol. 10, No. 2, 1944 Annual Meeting Papers, pp. 242-249. Hauhart, Robert C., “The Davis-Moore theory of stratification”, The American Sociologist, Winter 2003, Vol.34 (4), p.5-24. Stinchcombe, Arthur L.,”Some Empirical Consequences of the Davis-Moore Theory of Stratification”, The American Sociological Review , Oct., 1963, Vol. 28, No. 5, pp. 805-808. Bukodi E., and Goldthorpe, H. J., “Intergenerational class mobility in industrial and post-industrial societies: Towards a general theory”, Rationality and Society, 2022, Vol. 34(3) 271–301.
5. Social mobility and education (2) How does Japanese education work and is it seen as an opportunity for social mobility? Readings: Ishida Hiroshi, Social Mobility in Contemporary Japan, Stanford University Press, 1993, Chapter 1,3,4 and 5. Hannum, E., et.al., “Education in East Asian Societies: Postwar Expansion and the Evolution of Inequality”, Annual Review of Sociology, 2019, 45, 625-47. Fujiwara, S., and Ishida, H., “The absolute and relative values of education and the inequality of educational opportunity: Trends in access to education in postwar Japan”, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 2016, 25-37.
6. Credential Society and Credentialism (1) What is credentialism and how can we understand our society as a credential society? Readings: Collins, R., The Credential Society, Academic Press or Columbia University Press, 1979, Chapters 1,2,3 and 5. Khoo, S., “Reflection on Randall Collins’s sociology of credentialism”, Thesis Eleven, 154(1), 52-65, 2019. Araki, S., and Kariya, T., “Credential Inflation and Decredentialization: Re-examining the Mechanism of the Devaluation of Degrees”, European Sociological Review, Volume 38(6), pp.1-16, 2022.
7. Credential Society and Credentialism (2) To what extent has Japan been a credential society, and how and why? Readings: Dore, R., The Diploma Disease, George Aleen and Unwin, 1976, Chapters, 1-3. Amano, I., The Origins of Japanese Credentialism, Trans Pacific Press, 2011, Chapters, 1-3, 5-9, and 11. Ishida, H., Social Mobility in Contemporary Japan, (1993), Stanford University Press, Chapters 1 and 5. Kariya, T.,“Credential Inflation and Employment in ‘Universal’ Higher Education: Enrolment, Expansion, and (In)Equity via Privatization in Japan”, Journal of Education and Work, , 2010, Vol.24 No.1-2, pp.69-94, Routledge.
8. Mid-term discussion Mid-term papers are due. Students are expected to do presentation based on their paper. Essay questions will be given the week before.
9. Parenting and opportunity markets How important is ‘parenting’ for educational equality? How do ‘opportunity markets’ work in education and social mobility? Readings: Lareau, A., “Invisible Inequality: Social Class and Childrearing in Black Families and White Families” American sociological review, 2002-10, Vol.67 (5), 747-776. Lareau, A., “Cultural Knowledge and Social Inequality”, American Sociological Review, February 2015, Vol. 80, No. 1, pp. 1-27. Grusky, D. B., Hall, P.A., & Markus, H.R., “The Rise of Opportunity Markets: How Did It Happen & What Can We Do?” Dædalus, 2019 Summer, 19-45. Matsuoka, R., “Concerted cultivation development in a standardized education system”, Social Science Research, 77, 2019, 161-175. Matsuoka, R., “School socioeconomic compositional effect on shadow education participation: evidence from Japan”, British Journal of Sociology of Education, 36:2, 270-290.
10. Family, Gender and Social welfare How are family, gender and the welfare system interrelated in Japan? What problems do they cause in education? Readings: Schoppa, L. J. Race for the exits: the unravelling of Japan's system of social protection, Cornell University Press, 2006, Chapters 1,3, and 4. Ochiai Emiko “Care Diamonds and Welfare Regimes in East and South-East Asian Societies: Bridging Family and Welfare Sociology”, International Journal of Japanese Sociology: Number 18, 2009, 60-78. Ochiai Emiko, “Leaving the West, rejoining the East? Gender and family in Japan’s semi-compressed modernity”, International Sociology, Vol. 29(3), 2014, 189-267.
11. School to Work Transition What role do educational institutions play in creating links to the labour market: a Japanese case? Readings: Rosenbaum, J. E. and Kariya, T., “From High School to Work: Market and Institutional Mechanisms in Japan” The American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 94, No. 6, pp. 1334-1365, 1989. Brinton, C. Mary, Lost in Transition, Cambridge University Press, 2010, Chapter 1, 3, and 5. Ogawa, K., “The effectiveness of vocational secondary education on entry-level job outcomes in Japan’”, Japanese Journal of Sociology, 2023, 1-20. Chiavacci, D. (2005) ‘Transition from University to Work under Transformation: The Changing Role of Institutional and Alumni Networks in Contemporary Japan”, Social science Japan journal, 2005, Vol.8 (1), p.19-41
12. Education reforms and inequality in Japan’s education How have educational reforms in Japan affected educational inequality? Why were the reforms designed and implemented? Readings: Kariya, T., Education Reform and Social Class in Japan, Routledge, 2013, Chapters, Introduction, 1, 3, 4, 5,7, and 8. Kariya, T. and Rappleye J. Education, Equality, and Meritocracy in a Global Age, Teachers College Press, 2020 (Free eBook is downloadable from the TCP website), Chapters 1, 2, 4, 5, and 7. Kariya, T.,“Education and Social Disparities in Japan.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education. Ed. George Noblit, New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.
13. Education, Modernity, and Modernisation What role has Japanese education played in Japan's modernity and modernisation? Readings: Passin, H., Society and education in Japan, Kodansha International, 1982, Chapters 1 and 3. Vogel, E., Japan as Number One, Harvard University Press, 1979, Chapters 1,2, and 7. Kariya, T., “Meritocracy, Modernity, and the Completion of Catch-Up: Problems and Paradoxes” in A. Yonezawa et al. (eds.), Japanese Education in a Global Age, Education, in the Asia-Pacific Region, Springer, 2018. Kariya, T., “Japan’s post catch-up modernity: educational transformation and its unintended consequences, in H. Takeda and William, M. eds, Routledge handbook of contemporary Japan, 2021. Kariya, T., “A Long & Wrong Road to Globalization: Why Have Japanese Universities Failed in ‘Catching Up’ in the Twenty-First Century?”, Dædalus (forthcoming).
14. Final discussion We will discuss and summarize all the topics of the last 7 weeks. Students will be expected to give a presentation based on their essay. Essay questions will be given the week before.