Akira Furukawa (ed.), Frontiers of Social Research: Japan and Beyond (hardcover)

This is a hardcover version.

Akira Furukawa (ed.), Frontiers of Social Research: Japan and Beyond (paperback)

In this collection, thirteen essays by Japanese and Korean sociologists and anthropologists explore a variety of methods of social inquiry. They include: urban research, wartime anthropology, folklore studies, the studies of local knowledge of villagers, visual methodologies in fieldwork and description, and research and practice in social work.

Kenji Kosaka (ed.), A Sociology of Happiness: Japanese Perspectives (hardcover)

This is a hardcover version.

Kenji Kosaka (ed.), A Sociology of Happiness: Japanese Perspectives (paperback)

Published as the first volume of the Advanced Social Research Series, this book explores issues of happiness from a wide variety of sociological perspectives. It includes: a meta-analysis of suffering; an axiomatic approach to constructing a disadvantage index; a proposal for a new qualitative methodology for social science research; a Nietzschean analysis of happiness; a proposal to codify linguistic rights drawing on notions of the universal right to pursue well-being; an analysis of the role of folklore in articulating a society's implicit understandings of happiness and suffering; a critical exploration of the impact of social surveillance on happiness; and a clinical sociological approach to happiness and unhappiness.

Kenji Kosaka and Masahiro Ogino (eds), A Quest for Alternative Sociology (hardcover)

This is a hardcover edition.

Kenji Kosaka and Masahiro Ogino (eds), A Quest for Alternative Sociology (paperback)

The twelve chapters are arranged in four sections - Unremedied Suffering, 'Taming' Suffering, Reciting Suffering and Multidimensional Happiness - and explore the effects of war, economic exploitation, transnational migration, ecological disaster and family arrangements on people's happiness. The various studies examine issues in Japan, the United States, the Netherlands, India, the Philippines, Singapore and Vietnam. Through these diverse studies, the authors aim to define an intersected domain of sociological research through the examination of three sub-domains: Alternative social research, alternative society, and alternative sociology.