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

Arai Noriko / 新井 範子Arai Noriko

Faculty of Economics, Department of Management　Professor

Research Interests

My research focuses on value co-creation marketing, in which value is created through relationships with consumers. In recent years, I have been working on purpose-driven marketing, in which companies form brands and build communities/markets by aiming to solve social issues.
I am also researching mechanisms to generate synergy between business and social contribution and shopping spaces that are easy for the elderly and disabled to shop in.

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Faculty of Economics, Department of Management　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

Hirao Keiko / 平尾 桂子Hirao Keiko

Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Master's (Doctoral) Program in Global Environmental Studies　Professor

Research Interests

Dr. Keiko Hirao is a Professor at the Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies. Her research interest includes social sustainability, the construction of environmental issues, intergenerational relations, and gender and environment.
She is the author of Child Rearing War Front (Chobunsha 1991), chapters in Women's Working Lives in East Asia (Stanford University Press 2001), Political Economy of Japan's Low Fertility (Stanford University Press, 2006), Working and Mothering: Images, Ideologies, and Identities (NIAS Press,2007).
Her recent book, Invisible Hands and Invisible Heart (Sophia University Press 2015), discusses the structural undervaluation of care work vis-à-vis pecuniary activities. She also co-authored Families, Family Policies, and Sustainable Development Goals (UNICEF 2019), a policy tool that evaluates family policies worldwide across the six Sustainable Development Goals.

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Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Master's (Doctoral) Program in Global Environmental Studies　Professor

Nagai Atsuko / 永井 敦子Nagai Atsuko

Faculty of Humanities, Department of French Literature　Professor

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Faculty of Humanities, Department of French Literature　Professor