Program for the
5th meeting of the German-Japanese Society for Social Sciences,
Waseda University, Tokyo, September 13 - 17, 1998
Sunday, September 13
18.30 Informal gathering at the Kanshi-so in the Okuma Garden, Waseda(invitation card required)
Monday, September 14
09.00 Opening session and greetings
President of Organizing Committee, Prof. Dr. Hiroshi Namiki
President of German-Japanese Society, Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Kornadt
Ambassador of the German Federal Republic, Frank Elbe
Vice-President of German-Japanese Society, Prof. Dr. Ken'ichi Tominaga
09.45-11.00 Structure and change of social stratification in Japan and Germany:
the last decade of the 20th century
09.45-10.05 Kazuo Seiyama(University of Tokyo)
Social Stratification in Japan
10.05-10.25 Rainer Geissler (Universitaet Siegen)
Social Stratification in Germany
10.25-10.45 Discussant: Ken'ichi Tominaga
10.45-11.00 Discussant: Erwin Scheuch
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-12.40 Social change on the meso- and micro level of the Japanese and German society
11.30-11.50 Akihiko Kato (Waseda University)
Structure of Social and Political Consciousness in the 1990s
11.50-12.10 Helmut Loiskandl(Tokiwa University)
Boundary Maintenance, Order, and Anomy: Japan in Transition
12.10-12.30 Kunihiro Kamiya(Kansai University)
Zu soziologischen Aspekten der unipolaren Konzentration von Funktionen der Hauptstadt Tokio im Vergleich zur Hauptstadt Berlin[On sociological aspects of the unipolar concentration of functions of the capital of Tokyo as compared to those of the capital of Berlin]
12.30-12.40 Discussant: Friedrich Fuestenberg
12.40-13.50 Lunch break
13.50-14.20 Special Greeting from Waseda University
President of Waseda University, Prof. Dr. Takayasu Okushima
14.20-14.30 Lunch break
14.30-16.40 Globalization and its consequences
14.30-14.50 Erwin K. Scheuch (Universitaet Koeln)
Economic, Social, and Political Consequences of Globalization
14.50-15.10 Friedrich Fuerstenberg (Universitaet Bonn)
Globalization from a Sociological Point of View
15.10-15.30 Ilja Srubar (Universitaet Erlangen)
Globalization, Systematic Change and European Integration
15.30-15.50 Theodor Leuenberger (Universitaet St. Gallen)
Globalization: Dimensions of Worldwide Interdependece
Globalization: A New World Order Concept?
15.50-16.10 Akira Tokuyasu(Hosei University)
Pluralization of Meaning - Construction in the Global Age
16.10-16.30 Discussant: Helmut Loiskandl
16.30-16.50 Coffee break
16.50-18.30 Changing work Relations and Management Problems in Japan and Germany
16.50-17.10 Gert Schmidt (Universitaet Erlangen)
Corporate Strategy and Work Organization in German Industry
17.10-17.30 Shuichi Suzuki (Rikkyo University)
Corporate Strategy and Work in Modern Japan
17.30-17.50 Hede Helfrich (Universitaet Hildesheim)
Culturally Impressed Time-Representation and Business in Japan and Germany
17.50-18.10 Alexander Thomas (Universitaet Regensburg)
Cultural Impacts in German-Japanese Workgroups
18.10-18.30 Discussant: Fumio Yoshino
Tuesday, September 15
09.00-10.40 Education and Development in Japan and Germany
09.00-09.20 Naosuke Itoigawa (Osaka University)
A Forty-Year History of a Free-Ranging Group of Japanese Monkeys
09.20-09.40 Kurt A. Heller (Universitaet､Muenchen)
Individual and Social Conditions of Academic Excellence in University and Work
09.40-10.00 Iwao Nakajima (Kansai University)
How to Adapt Characteristics of the Developmental Stages of Bilingual Acuistion to an Efficient Action Scheme [One way of structuring the
characteristics of the developmental stages of secondary language acquisition in an efficient action scheme]
10.00-10.20 Yoshiharu Tachibana (Gifu University)
Attitudes and motivation for learning English: A Cross National Comparison of Japanese and Chinese Students
10.20-10.30 Discussant: Hiroshi Namiki
10.30-11.00 Coffee break
11.00-13.00 Workshop: "Social and Individual Aspects of Globalization and Change
in Japan and Germany I".
(Coordinator: Ken'ichi Tominaga, Kunihiro Kamiya)
13.00-14.00 Lunch break
14.00-17.40 Social Change and its Implications on Individual Development:
a Life-Span Perspective
14.00-15.40 Childhood and Family
14.00-14.20 Hideo Kojima (Nagoya University)
Value of Children in Pre-Industrial and Industrial Japan
14.00-14.20 Keiko Kashiwagi (Shirayuri College)
Changing Value of Children
14.40-15.00 Gisela Trommsdorff (Universitaet Konstanz)
Value of Children in Cultural Perspective
15.00-15.20 Bernhard Nauck (Universitaet Chemnitz)
Political Transformation, Rapid Changes in the Family, Structure and the Living Conditions of Children in East Germany
15.20-15.40 Takotoshi Takuma& Yukiko Amau(Tokyo International University; Aoyama Educational Institute)
15.40-16.00 Coffee break
16.00-17.40 Adolescence
16.00-16.20 Rainer K. Silbereisen (Universitaet Jena)
Growing up in Times of Social Change
16.20-16.40 Toshiaki Shirai (Osaka University)
Time Orientation in Developmental and Cultural Context
16.40-17.00 Noboru Sakano (formerly Kyoto University)
Social Change - Changing Value of Adolescenc
17.00-17.20 Hans-Joachim Kornadt, Anja M. Eisler & Yoshiharu Tachibana (Universitaet Saarbruecken; Gifu University)
Stability and Changes in Aggression in a Changing Society Empirical Results from a Longitudinal Study
17.20-17.40 Discussant: Kohichi Okamoto
18.30 Friendship party at Hotel Riga, Waseda University(Ticket required)
Wednesday, September 16
09.30-13.00 Social change in relation to individual orientation
09.30-09.50 Sadao Nakamura(Waseda University)
Geriatric Problems in Japan
09.50-10.10 Hiroshi Namiki (Waseda University)
Aging and cognitive function in the case of Kanji-processing
10.10-10.30 Shigemasa Sumi (Japan Women's University)
Incompletness in Gestaltperception
10.30-10.50 Susumu Yamaguchi(Univesity of Tokyo)
Meaning of Amae among Japanese: When Observers Label other's Behavior as Amae
10.50-11.20 Coffee break
11.20-11.40 Junko Ando (Keio University)
Genetic Influence upon Instruction/Learning Processes: A Twin Study.
11.40-12.00 Urlike Schmidt, Makoto Kobayashi, Tomoko Tokitsu, Shigenobu Sekimizu & Hiroshi Namiki (Waseda University)
Moral Development in Cultural Perspective
12.00-12.20 Rieko Tomo (Koshien Junior College, Hyogo)
Content Analysis of Japanese, Taiwanese and German Textbooks: Sex Role of Child-Rearing Behavior
12.20-12.40 Discussant: Hans-Joachim Kornadt
12.40-14.00 Lunch break
14.00-15.30 Workshop: "Social and individual aspects of globalization and change
in Japan and Germany II".
(Coordinator: Gisela Trommsdorff, Hans-Joachim Kornadt, Kohich Okamoto)
15.30-15.45 Coffee break
15.45-17.15 Business meeting. Assembly of German-Japanese Society for Social Sciences
17.15 End of the meetings
Thursday, September 17
10.00-13.00 Visit of the Tokyo Edo Museum at Ryogoku