CURRICULUM VITAE Yoichi MURASE Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Rikkyo University 3-34-1, Nishi Ikebukuro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo 171-8501 JAPAN Nationality; Japanese Male. Surname; Murase. Date of birth; August 1968. Education 09/1999 Ph D. in Behavioral Science 03/1993 Master in Behavioral Science 03/1991 Bachelor in Behavioral Science SPECIALIZATION Social Stratification, Social Networks and Other Social Resources, Political Sociology, Social Survey Methodology. EMPLOYMENT 04/2003 to present Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Rikkyo University. 04/2001 to 03/2002 Associate Professor, Department of Industrial Relations, Rikkyo University. 10/1997 to 03/2001 Lecturer, Department of Industrial Relations, Rikkyo University. 01/1996 to 09/1997 JSPS Research Fellow (young researcher selected by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) - 1 -
Honorary Fellow of the Department of Sociology, University Wisconsin-Madison (09/2015-08/2016). Visiting Scholar of Tamkang University, Taiwan (10/2008-03/2009). Visiting Professor of University of Seoul, Korea (04/2008-07/2008). Honorary Fellow of the Department of Sociology, University Wisconsin-Madison (09/2001-08/2002). Books: (in Japanese) 2014. The Report of the Sendai Senhoku survey about a life and disaster prevention: Association between earthquake disaster damage and a social stratification. Main Editor. Department of Sociology, Rikkyo University. http://www2.rikkyo.ac.jp/web/murase/14repo/ 2007. Multivariate Analysis by SPSS. Main Editor. Tokyo: Ohmusha. 2006. "Sociology of Class and Stratification." Sociology easy to understand. pp.86-99. Kyoto: Minelva Shobo. 1998. "Power." in KURITA Nobuyoshi ed. Data Book Sociology. pp.138-144. Tokyo: Kawashima Syoten. 1994. Report of the Survey of Citizens of Sendai about Life & Environment. Sendai: Working Group on Life & Environment, Tohoku University. Articles: 2013. Disaster, Social Consciousness, and Social Network after the Great East Japan Earthquake: Analysis of Survey on Earthquake Damage and Social Consciousness in Sendai and Senhoku. Report Book of the Korean National Security Research Institute. pp.5-35. Korean National Defense University. 2012. Cultural constraints on rising income inequality: A U.S. Japan comparison" Sakamoto, Arthur, Hyeyoung Woo, Isao Takei and Yoichi Murase. Journal of Economic Inequality vol.10:565-581. 2009. "The Effects of Absolute and Relative Incomes on Job Satisfaction among Male Workers in Japan." Takei, Isao, Arthur Sakamoto, and Yoichi Murase. Sociological Focus vol.42: 39-56 (North Central Sociological Association ). 2008. "International Comparison of Political Consciousness and Social Structure : Determinants of Sense of Political efficacy in Korea and Japan." The Journal of - 2 -
Applied Sociology (Ohyoh Shakaigaku Kenkyu) 50:53-70. Rikkyo University. Murase, Yoichi, Go Seongyu, Lee Jinwon (in Japanese). 2007. "Deterioration of Social Survey Environment and the Countermeasures : Method of Conducting Social Survey and Response Rate Improvement." Social information (Shakai Joho) vol16: 87-100. Sapporo Gakuin University (in Japanese). 2006. "Who chose eco-products? : Effects of possessions of information and social networks." The Study of Sociology (Shakaigaku Kenkyu) No.80:123-144 (in Japanese) 2002. "The Structure of Japanese Social Consciousness and the Difference in Areas: The Analysis of the SSM Survey about the Sense of Social Unfairness and Policy Preferences." The Study of Sociology (Shakaigaku Kenkyu) No.7289-110 (in Japanese). 2001. "The Area Comparison of Networks with Influential Person : The Metrical Analysis of the 3 Area Surveys about the Determinants of Possession of Relational Resource." The Journal of Applied Sociology (Ohyoh Shakaigaku Kenkyu). Rikkyo University (in Japanese). 2001. "The Mechanism of having Authoritarian attitude: The Difference between the Attitude about Pecking order and Attitude about Respect for Traditions." In Katase, Kazuo ed. Report of the Fourth Survey about Consciousness of Education and Society of High School Students and Their Parents. Sendai: Tohoku University Working Group on Educational Culture (in Japanese). 1999. Inequality of Political Power in Democratic Society: Relation between Relational Resource and Political Attitude in Social Stratification. A doctoral dissertation submitted to Tohoku University (in Japanese). 1999. "Determinants of Social Networks with Influential People: Social Stratification Structure of Political Influence Measured by Relational Resource." Japanese Sociological Review (Shakaigaku Hyoron) Vol.50:21-40. The Japan Sociological Society (in Japanese). 1998. "The Difference of Relational Resources and its Explanatory Factors: Social Stratification of Political Power Measured by Relations to Influential Persons." In Kazuo Katase ed. Political Consciousness in Contemporary Japan, The 1995 SSM Research Series Vol.7:131-150. Tokyo: Research Group for 1995 SSM (Social Stratification and Mobility) Survey (in Japanese). 1998. "A proposal of the New Occupational Prestige Score: The Effect of the Scale of Company on the Evaluation of Occupation." In Kazuharu Tsuzuki ed. - 3 -
Occupational Evaluations and Prestige Score, The 1995 SSM Research Series Vol.5:125-151. Tokyo: Research Group for 1995 SSM (Social Stratification and Mobility) Survey (in Japanese). 1996. "The Mechanism of Cognition about Social Stratification Structure." In Suzuki, Syoitsu, Michio Umino and Kazuo Katase ed. Report of the Third Survey about Consciousness of Education and Society of High School Students and Their Parents. pp.59-76. Sendai: Tohoku University Working Group on Educational Culture (in Japanese). 1995. "Why Do Rational Individual Vote?: "The Paradox of Not Voting" and the Development of its Models." The Study of Sociology (Shakaigaku Kenkyu) No.62:83-110. Sendai: Tohoku Sociological Association (in Japanese). Presentations: 2014. Disaster, Social Network, and Social Status: Damage and Consciousness after the Great East Japan Earthquake. American Sociological Association 109th Annual meeting at San Francisco. Yoichi Murase and Lawrence Neuman. 2013. Disaster, Instability of Life, and Social Status after the Great East Japan Earthquake: Analysis of 2011 and 2012 Survey of the Earthquake Damage and Social Consciousness. International Sociological Association RC28, Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. 2013 Lost in the Great East Japan Earthquake and Anxiety about the Future: An Analysis of 2011 Survey of the Earthquake Damage and Social Consciousness in Sendai City. American Sociological Association 108th Annual meeting at New York. Yoichi Murase and Lawrence Neuman. 2011 "Social Survey Methodology in Korea, Taiwan, and Japan: Problem and Quiality Control of Social Survey. Behaviormetric Society of Japan 39 th Annual Conference at Okayama University of Science, Japan. 2010. " Attitudinal Foundations of Rising Inequality: Equalization Policy and the Cognition of Inequality in Korea and Japan." American Sociological Association 105th Annual meeting at Atlanta. Yoichi Murase, Rikkyo University; Isao Takei; Arthur Sakamoto. 2010. "The Cause of Confusion on Social Mobility Study: The Problem of Definition of Upper Class and Measurement of Mobility." International Sociological Association Conference at Goteborg, Sweden. - 4 -
2009. Analysis of Trust, Political Efficacy, and Inequality: Association between Political Attitude and Social Network in Korea and Japan." World Congress of International Political Science Association at San Tiago. 2008. "Inequality and Political Efficacy: Analysis of Social Consciousness and Network in Korea and Japan." American Sociological Association 103rd Annual meeting at Boston. Yoichi Murase, Rikkyo University; Go SeonGyu, Korea National Election Commission. 2008. "Analysis of Social Network and Consciousness: The Difference about Evaluation on Society and Political Participation between Korean and Japanese." Korean Sociological Association 2008 meeting. 2007. "Geographical difference of recycling behavior and social resources: Data analysis about possession of information and relational resource in Japan." Beijing International Conference on Environmental Sociology, Renmin University, Beijing, People's Republic of China. 2007. "Participation and Social Network: Participation and Relational Resource with Influential People in Korea and Japan." American Sociological Association 102nd Annual meeting at New York. Yoichi Murase, Rikkyo University; Go SeonGyu, Korea National Election Commission. 2006. "Relational Resource and Political Consciousness: Association between Networks with Influential People and Sense of Unfairness on Society in Korea and Japan." American Sociological Association 101st Annual meeting at Montreal. Yoichi Murase, Rikkyo University; Go SeonGyu, Korea National Election Commission; Jeffrey Broadbent, University of Minnesota. 2006. "The general model of cooperative behavior and possession of information: Data analysis of social resource and social dilemma in the environmental problem." Korean Sociological Association meeting, Chonbuk National University, Korea. 2003. "Social Stratification and Relational Resource: Association between Networks with Influential People and Political Attitude in Japan." International Sociological Association, Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility (RC28) 2003Winter Meeting, University of Tokyo - 5 -