Fujimura Masayuki

The purpose of this paper is to trace the publication process of a sociological text "Shakaigakunouchu (An Interface to Sociological Knowledge)" (K. Kawasaki & M. Fujimura (eds.), Koseishakoseikaku, Tokyo, 1992) by the editors. Although all this kind of writing involves "the invention of the past, " we attempt to construct our editing process-how to make plans, finalize them, write the books, publish them, etc. At the beginning of the 1990s, just after the "bubble economy, " sociological education was swamped by reforms. We kept in mind the change in the way "traditional" sociological education was being imparted-from "well-educated sociology" to "practical sociology" or "DIY (Do It Yourself) Sociology." We believe that our textbook played a role in giving a new direction to the field, as some others textbooks had done previously.

In 21st century, the reexamination of the welfare state of the 20^th century is progressing, and welfare sociology in relation to macro-sociology and social theory must be examined. In this article, we consider several points of welfare from the view of a value orientation system. The aim in using the term, "value orientation system", is to clarify the complex relations between multiple value systems.<BR>To study the transformation of the value orientation system, we focus on the three angles of social planning, social control/social movement and the recognition of social issues.<BR>Regarding social planning, the discussion on normative theories become active. I reorganize these as 4 theoretical poles and confirm that there is a strong concern to communality in sociology.<BR>For social control and social movement, the decline of nation-centered schemes such as welfare states has many people looking forward to the models of welfare society, welfare government and welfare world, and the growing expectation in welfare governance is looked at.<BR>Finally, in the recognition of social issues, the concept of needs reappear s. However new issues such as risk, self-decision etc. become apparent. There is a need to examine and investigate the uniqueness and their interrelations of welfare precisely.

Children and adolescents who live in contemporary Japanese society are surrounded by media equipment. As a result, a large amount of information is available to them. The purpose of this article is to attempt to understand the interrelationship between a media environment, and the bodies of children and adolescents. I focus on three aspects of this interrelationship, as follows: First, I investigate the current state of media environment progress and the background of human relations. In particular, I examine the significance of the change from pseudo environment concept to media environment concept, and from sender-receiver diagram to editor-reader diagram, as well as the transition in the quality of social norms as a result of weakening connections among people due to the diffusion of media environment. Secondly, my research focuses on the relation of the discussions, on the topics of"media bashing"and"media advoxacy".After examining the situation in which both criticism and protection of the media become complicated in discusions of the cause of social events, I discuss the aspects overlooked by the discussions of"media bashing"and"media advocacy". Finally, I indicate the transformation of body sense by the form and content of media. I investigate this transformation through television and video game as "visual culture", through music and telephone as"earculture".The body is considered a sign and a sense organ in itself. Contemporary children and adolescents grow up immersed in a media environment rather than an environment of nature or human relations.In conclusion, I indicate the necessity of a third theory concerning the relationship of human-media, and not merely human-nature and human-human.

M・ウェーバーは『国民国家と経済政策』の中で次のように述べている.「上の階級に対しても, 下の階級に対しても, また自分の属している階級に向かっても, 都合の悪いことを云うことこそ, われわれの科学の使命であります」 [Weber, 1895=1959, 51, 一部訳変更] と。ウェーバーのこの言葉をひとつの手がかりとして, この書評を進めていくことにしよう。