2013/03/21

CURRICULUM VITAE

 

Yasushi MATSUMOTO

 

Date of Birth

March 2, 1955

 

Nationality

Japan

 

Office Address

Department of Sociology

Rikkyo University

34-1 Nishi-Ikebukuro 3, Toshima-ku

Tokyo, JAPAN     171-8501

 

Tel +81-3-3985-3464

Fax +81-3-3985-2833

E-mail ymatsumoto＠rikkyo.ac.jp

 

Academic Career

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Letters, University of Tokyo, 1984-1987

Lecturer, School of Letters, Nagoya University, 1987-1991

Visiting Scholar, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago 1988-1989 

Associate Professor, School of Letters, Nagoya University, 1991-1999

Professor, Graduate School of Urban Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University, 1999-2005

Professor, Faculty of Urban Environmental Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University 2005-2006

Professor, Department of Sociology, Rikkyo University, 2006-present

 

Education

M.A. Sociology, The University of Tokyo, Japan, 1981

B.A. Sociology, The University of Tokyo, Japan, 1979

 

Certification

Special Certificate in Social Research, Japanese Certification Board for Social Researcher, 2004

 

Membership

 Associate member of the Science Council of Japan (2006-present)

 Japanese Sociological Society

 Japan Association for Urban Sociology, President (2003-2007)

 Japan Society of Family Sociology

 Japan Association of Sociological Criminology

 Japan Association of Regional and Community Studies

 Japan Association for the Study on the History of Sociology

 

Grants

Grant-in-aid for Scientific Research (B), JSPS, FY2010-2013

Grant-in-aid for Scientific Research (B), JSPS, FY2007-2009

Grant-in-aid for Exploratory Research, MEXT, FY2006-2007

Grant-in-aid for Scientific Research (B)(2),JSPS, FY2000-2003

Grant-in-aid for Scientific Research (C)(2), Ministry of Education, FY1995-1997

Grant-in-aid for Encouragement of Scientists (A), Ministry of Education, FY1990

 

Publications

(In English)

Book Review. “Roppongi Crossing: The Demise of a Tokyo Nightclub District and the Reshaping of a Global City. By Roman Adrian Cybriwsky.” Journal of Japanese Studies 39(1): 176-180. 2013.

 

"Urban Regeneration and the Creative City: Making Creative Neighborhoods in Yokohama." Global Urban Studies 4. Rikkyo Institute for Global Urban Studies: 17-29. 2011.

 

"Conditions of Happiness in Tokyo: Effects of Urban Economy and Culture." Paper presented at the Second International Conference of the Global Metropolitan Forum of Seoul. The Second International Conference of the Global Metropolitan Forum of Seoul. The National Academy of Sciences, Republic of Korea. 2008. Pp.87-115.　

 

“Conditions of Happiness in Tokyo: An Overview.” Paper presented at the Inaugural International Conference of the Global Metropolitan Forum of Seoul: Assessing Happiness and Competitiveness of World Major Metropolises. The National Academy of Sciences, Republic of Korea. 2007. Pp.183-207.

 

“Chonaikai,” “Civil Minimum,” “Suzuki, Eitaro,” “Traditional Consumption City,” “Urban Way of Life,” entries in Encyclopedia of Sociology, Blackwell, 2006. (Note: My name is wrongly printed as Yasushi “Suzuki” in the copies.)

 

“Japanese Urban Sociology: Development and Current Trends.” The American Sociologist. 31:58-71. 2000.

 

“Social Network Perspective in Urban Sociology.” (Paper presented at Joint Seminar at Chinese University of Hong Kong) In Trends in Urban Sociology: Hong Kong and Japan (Japan Association for Urban Sociology.) Pp.51-59. 1991.

 

(In Chinese)

“Tokyo in the Age of Bubble Economy.” Soho XiaoBao. 63:8-9. 2006.

 

(In Japanese)

Books (edited by Yasushi Matsumoto)

Living in Tokyo: Urban Social Structure and Social Consciousness. Tokyo: Tokyo Metropolitan University Press. 2004

 

Proliferating Social Networks. Tokyo: Keiso Shobo. 1995.

 

The Frontiers of Urban Sociology 2. Life, Relation, and Culture. Tokyo: Nihonhyoronsha. 1992.(co-edited with K. Morioka.)

 

Articles

“Structuring and Restructuring Suburban Regime in the City of Mitaka, Tokyo: Is Collaborative and Urban Managerial Regime Established?” Global Urban Studies. 3: 27-57. 2010.

 

“SOHO CITY MITAKA: An Industrial Policy in a Suburban Municipality in the Global Information Economy.” Global Urban Studies. 2: 1-29. 2009.

 

“Mitaka City and the Transformation of Socio-spatial Structure in Tokyo: Demographic Change in an Inner Suburb.” Global Urban Studies. 1: 57-88.

 

“Tolerance toward Foreigners in Local Communities: Neighborhood effects of neighboring networks.” Advanced Urban Sociology. 1:8-32. Tokyo: Harvest. 2006.

 

“Urbanism and Friendship: Structuration of Social Networks in a Metropolis.” Japanese Sociological Review. 56(1): 147-164. 2005.

 

“Urbanism and Kinship: Examining the Subcultural, Modified Subcultural, and ‘Decreasing Number of Children’ Hypotheses.” Japanese Journal of Family Sociology. 16(2): 61-69. 2005.

 

“Patterns of Community Lifecycle in a Japanese City.” Comprehensive Urban Studies. No.84: 65-87.2004.

 

“Transition and Tradition in Urban Sociolgy.” Annals of Japan Association for Urban Sociology 21: 63-79. Tokyo: Japan Association for Urban Sociology. 2003.

 

“Representation of Samples in the Tokyo General Social Survey.” Comprehensive Urban Studies. No.78: 131-145.2002.

 

“Toward a Structuration Theory of Urbanism: Structuration of Social Networks in the Urban Setting.” Annals of Japan Association for Urban Sociology 20: 63-80. Tokyo: Japan Association for Urban Sociology. 2002.

 

“’Neo-Chicago School’ of Urban Sociology: Intersection of the Chicago School and Harvard Structuralism.” Studies on the History of Sociology 24: 29-43. Tokyo: Inaho Shobo. 2002.

 

“Attitude on ’Post Modern Family’ as an Urban Unconventionality.” JILI Forum 11: 5-13. 2002.

 

“Age and Social Structure: An Analysis of Nagoya Survey Data 1995.” Sociological Review of Nagoya University. 20: 45-80. 1999.

 

“Quest for a Model of Downtown Community: A Case Study on Town Development Movement in Sakae-Fushimi Area of Nagoya City.” Sociological Review of Nagoya University 18: 173-193. (with Junko Ando and Minoru Kawakita.) 1997.

 

“Structural Transformation of Urban Community and Personal Networks.” Urban Planning. 199: 24-29. 1996.

 

“The Change of Personal Networks in Contemporary Metropolises.” The Journal of the Faculty of Letters, Nagoya University. 123 Philosophy 41: 143-168. 1995.

 

“Polyphyletic Development of Urban Sociology: Issues on Urban Community Studies in the 1980s.” Annals of Region and Community Studies 6: 53-65. 1994.

 

“The Community Question and Elaboration of the Subcultural Theory.” Sociological Review of Nagoya University.15: 51-108. 1994.

 

“Urbanism, Residential Mobility, and Social Networks.” Comprehensive Urban Studies.52:43-78. 1994.

 

“Urbanism and Social Networks: A Test of ‘Subcultural Theory’ based on Nagoya Survey Data.” The Journal of the Faculty of Letters, Nagoya University. 114 Philosophy 38: 161-185.

 

“Possibility of New Urbanism Theory: From Park, through Wirth, to Fischer.” Sociological Review of Nagoya University. 11: 77-106. 1990.

 

“Cultural Formation and Lifestyles in Urban Communities.” Urban Problems. 81(2): 61-75. 1990.

 

“Urban Communities and Lifestyles: A Case of Shinagawa Ward.” The Journal of the Faculty of Letters, Nagoya University. 105 Philosophy 35: 95-111. 1989.

 

“Relative Deprivation and the Social Movement: Is It Possible to Revive the Theory of Relative Deprivation?” Shiso. 737: 102-123. 1985.

 

“Social Change in Contemporary Japan and Development of Lifestyles: Life System Perspective.” Shiso. 730: 278-300. 1985.

 

“Introduction to the Life System Theory.” Sociologos. 5: 38-53. 1981.

 

“Opportunity Structure and Life Structure: A Perspective to ‘Play-type’ Delinquency.” Japanese Journal of Sociological Criminology. 5: 142-165. 1980.

 

Book Chapters

“The Perspective for Subcultures: Claude S. Fischer ‘Toward a Subcultural Theory of Urbanism.’” In Shun Inoue and Kimio Ito eds. Sociology Basics Vol.4 The Urban World. Kyoto: Sekaishisosya. Pp.53-62. 2008.

 

“Urbanization and Community Transformation: Social Networks in Time and Space.” Sociology of Community Lecture Series. 1. Tokyo: Toshindo. Pp.131-156. 2006.

 

“Urban Subcultures and Public Order.”  T. Imada and T. Kim. Publicness from Perspective of City. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press. Pp. 33-49. 2004.

 

“Urban Studies of the Chicago School.” Y. Takahashi eds. Urban Sociology in Twenty First Century. Tokyo: Gakubunsha. Pp. 15-28. 2002.

 

“Social Networks and Subculture.” Y. Takahashi eds. Urban Sociology in Twenty First Century. Tokyo: Gakubunsha. Pp. 39-51. 2002.

 

“Urbanization, Suburbanization, and Reurbanization: Structural Transformation in Nagoya Metropolitan Area.” I. Kaneko and K. Morioka eds. Sociology of Urbanization and Community. Kyoto: Minerva. Pp. 229-252. 2001.

 

“Structural Transformation of an Urban Community: Socio-spatial urban structure and Social Networks.” M. Okuda ed. Urban Sociology (Sociology in Japan 4). University of Tokyo Press. Pp.105-158. 1999.

 

“To Settle down in the City and Personal Networks.” Social Worlds of the City. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press Center. Pp. 169-203. 1998.

 

“Community Studies in ‘Post-war Chicago School.’” M. Nakata ed. Contemporary Local Community Management. Tokyo: Toshindo. Pp.54-66. 1998.

 

 “Contemporary Japanese Society and Lifestyles.” K. Misawa ed. Modern Life and Human. Kyoto: Koyoshobo. Pp. 3-24. 1993.

 

“Urbanization: A New Theoretical Perspective.” K. Kitagawa ed. Comparative Sociology of the Age. Tokyo: Aokishoten. Pp.150-169. 1992.

 

“Neo-Urbanism Theory.” H. Suzuki ed. Interpreting the Contemporary City. Kyoto: Minerva. Pp. 133-157. 1992.

 

“Contemporary Society and Lifestyles.” K. Kaneko and K. Matsumoto eds. Quality of Life: Understanding Contemporary Society. Tokyo: Fukumura Publisher. Pp.189-210. 1986.

 

Translations into Japanese

Abbott, Andrew. Department of Sociology and Sociology: The Truth of Chicago Sociology at One Hundred. Tokyo: Harvest. 2011. (trans. with Xuefei Ren from Department and Discipline: Chicago Sociology at One Hundred, 1999.)

 

Gans, Herbert J. The Urban Villagers: Class Cultures of Italian-Americans and Urban Renewal. Tokyo: Harvest. 2006.(trans. from The Urban Villagers, 1982.)

 

Fischer, Claude S. To Dwell Among Friends: Personal Networks in Northern California. Tokyo: Miraisha. 2002. (trans. with N. Maeda, from To Dwell Among Friends, 1982.)

 

Fischer, Claude S. The Urban Experience: Social Psychology of Urban Life. Tokyo: Miraisha. 1996. (trans. with N. Maeda, from The Urban Experience, 1984.)