Articles:
OHNO Takeshi  Financial Situations and Labor Relations at the Big Three Automakers During the Last Stage of the High Economic Growth Era
HIDAKA Katsuyuki  Application of “Radical Democracy” to Media Studies :
Media Analysis and Discourse Theory of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe
NAKANISHI Hitoshi  Consideration of the “Nishijin Brocade” Course Unit Introduced by Tokio Nagata
NAGAHASHI Tamesuke  A Study on Effectiveness of Implementation of Environmental Autobiography to Kindergartens’ Principals and Mothers (2)
TAKAGI Masao  Japan’s Oldest-old Population in the Edo Period :
An Attempt to Use Historical Materials of the Sendai Domain, 1737-1866 (2)
OHSAWA Takuya  Escalating Process Analysis of Social Reaction in Social Problems
Research Notes:
MATSUDA Hiroshi  Gramsci’s Prison notebooks and the Philosophy of Croce
Essay:
MATSUBA Masafumi  An Essay on the East Asian Ideology
Translation:
Michael Krüger, ARUGA Ikutoshi (tr.)  150 Jahre SPD :
die Arbeiterturn- und Sportbewegung zwischen sozialistischer Arbeiterkultur und Volkssport
Briefs of Doctoral Dissertation:
TAKAKURA Hiroshi  Sociological Considerations of Sharing the Environmental Risk in Environmental Movement (neighborhood protest movements on the safety of industrial waste treatment plants) : Neighborhood Protest Movement Involving Dioxins and PCBs
XU LING  The Hierarchical Characteristics and Old Age Issue of the Industrial Worker Class in the China Urban Areas : Focus Attention on the Retired Worker of State-Owned Enterprise and the Migrant Worker
FUJII Reiko  The Prevalence and Problems of Media Literacy Education in Japan : Moving toward learning for Empowerment
ARAKAWA Aki  Reconsidering Study of Positive Aging : Case Studies on Elderly Peoples Living in a Depopulated Area and an Urban Area
JANG Heayoung  Between the Resistance and Oppression : Reconsidering the South Korean Cinema under the Dictatorship of Park Chung-hee (1961-1979)
CHEN Yindi  Research on the Education for Care-giving profession in the Big City of China : Refer to the Experience and the Peak of Japan