CAROLA HOMMERICHCAROLA HOMMERICH

Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Sociology　Professor

Research Interests

Carola Hommerich is a Professor at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Human Sciences, and a core faculty member of the Sophia Program for Sustainable Futures (SPSF). Her research interest centres on the interrelation of social and subjective well-being. She specifically analyses how experiences of precarity, status anxiety and social exclusion relate to subjective well-being, and how different types of social capital mediate this relationship. Analysing Japanese society in comparative perspective, she has been working with different conceptualisations of well-being, utilizing standard measures of well-being as well as culture specific measures. Recently, she is also working on attitudes towards climate change, with a specific interest in how environmental attitudes and perceptions of individual efficacy translate into pro-environmental behaviour.

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Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Sociology　Professor

Hosoki Ralph Ittonen / 細木 一十稔 ラルフHosoki Ralph Ittonen

Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Sociology　Assistant Professor

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Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Sociology　Assistant Professor

Saito Atsuko / 齋藤 慈子Saito Atsuko

Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Psychology　Associate Professor

Research Interests

Atsuko Saito specializes in developmental psychology, evolutionary psychology, and comparative cognitive science.
Her research focuses on the relationship between humans and cats as companion animals, and human parenting from the perspective of humans as an animal species. Humans are a species of mammals and primates, but unlike the majority in these taxonomic groups, we are not capable of raising children by mothers alone. However, in Japan today, the burden of child-rearing is disproportionately placed on the mother/parent. She considers what can be done to achieve child-rearing within society.

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Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Psychology　Associate Professor