A Sociological inquiry in a Positivistic View into Social Integration Theory and Its Practical Logic Applicable in Japanese Socio-Cultural Context of 'Risk Society'

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Japanese society, a highly modernized society, is assumed to be a risk society, and thus this study aims to investigate in a positivistic view problematics produced in social and/or community acceptance of others under the risk society surroundings. This sociological study tries in particular to explicate theoretically a current socio-cultural contexts of a risk society in which social diversification due to lack of the acceptance is intensified, the sociological investigation which aims to approach to the problematics in the concepts of 'politicization and sub-politicization' shown in the U. Becik's argument of reflexive modernization. It is performed in the three years-process : in the first year, it fully summarizes, to construct working hypotheses for a social survey, the previous studies concerning the social acceptance and the risk society and reflexive modernization ; in the second year, we constructed a questionnaire to prove hypotheses, and executed a web survey on the people's value concern ; and in the third year, we tried to construct a theory of the social or the community acceptances of others or constructs troublesome to community by studying the result of the survey, and we explicated among others a type of causal relation of traditional community relations to a positive understanding and acceptance of others in society or a community.