Professor at the Facultu of Social Sciences
Hosei University
4342 Aiharamachi, Machida-shi, Tokyo, 194-0298
Email: ssbasis <at> hosei.ac.jp
Research Interests
My research interests include the study of states and nationalism, citizenship,
sociological theory, and the comparative and historical sociology. My main
research field is Germany. National Identity and Territory: Disputes on the Easter Borders in Postwar
Germany (2008), my first book, analyzes the role of national identity in territorial
disputes on the Oder-Neisse line. In Sociology of the State (2014), I consider in more general terms how the modern states are formed
and disseminated, what its functions are, and how they are changing in
a globalizing world. Recently, I have written several articles on the rise
of "right-wing populism" and xenophobic discourse and the policies
and politics of citzenship in concemporary Germany. My book in progress
will discuss the history of citizenship and nationhood in Germany from
the 19th century to the present.
On sociological theories, I wrote several articles on the sociological
theory of Talcott Parsons, the state theory of Micael Mann, the theory
of "cultural sociology", and the "cognitive perspective"
of Rogers Brubaker. My current research project concerns a historical sociology
of sociological theories in the context of the Western modernity from the
19th century to the present.
Degree
1987 BA (Letters), Tokyo University
1989 MA (Sociology), Tokyo University
1993 MA (Sociology), University of California, Los Angeles
1998 Ph.D. (Sociology), University of California, Los Angeles
Bio
1996-98 Research Fellow of JSPS
1998-2004 Lecturer, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Ibaraki University
2004-2013 Associate Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Hosei
University
2013- Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Hosei University
Publication
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