TA's philosophical assumptions: People are OK. Everyone has the capacity to think. People decide their own destiny, and these decisions can be changed. Our essences as human is different from our behaviors. That is, although at times I har…

"TA" is the abbreviation of "Transactional Analysis", which is a theory of personality and a systematic psychotherapy for personal growth and personal change(This is the definition of TA suggested by the International Transactional Analysi…

It was little difficult for our students to analyze Give&Take relations in Moomin story, because they were troubled with finding what a character could took at the end of the story. They thought too difficult to find it. They tended to thi…

There are many kinds of method for sociology, such as Transaction Analysis, Ethnomethod, Dramaturgy, and so on. Most of all of them relate to interaction with others, of course. Well then, why do we interact with others? I think it is beca…

Moominpappa, who escaped from an abandoned Moomin children's home which an aunt Hemulen runs, got an acquaintance with Fredrikson who wanted to be an great inventor. He was the Moominpappa's first friend who listen his talks at the end of …

I reread "How to get people to do things" by Robert Conklin. The first time to read it was more than ten years ago. I have been strongly impressed that we could not make people to do something only by logic, rather we needed emotional pers…

From today's Moomin class, we will take up "Trollkarens Hatt", that I have started to be completely absorbed in solving Moomin stories' secrets. The key to the secrets is "contrast". This work is inlaid with many contrasts which all relate…

In the yesterday's class, I first explained the importance of metaphor, because the students were not good at 3rd homework exercise, that is, "select a character, and list and categorize the metaphors in his or her remarks". Many students …

Tomorrow, I introduce "Ethnomethodology" into my moomin class to comprehend the messages of Moomin stories. "Ethno" means a specific social groups, "method" represents the ordinary ways or habits that the group members use to communicate w…

In the next class of Socio-constructive Science & Technology I, we debate whether we should stand on Realism or Instrumentalism. The former insists that the object explained by a scientific idea, i.e. photon, is really exist. On the other …

Yesterday, the 3rd Moomin seminar was held. In the class, we did three exercises on "Comet in Moominvalley". The first is dividing the story into four parts, that is introduction, development, turn and conclusion, and evaluating each part …

Dramaturgy in sociology is a method for explaining what society is. In dramaturgy, we act a kind of role and through this role-playing we construct social relations with each other. Our acts depend on time, place and audience, and our acti…

Knowledge is a story, story has a composition, composition has the following 4 factors: gather and bundle point events related to the point order of the events causal relation between a series of the events And these factors are divided in…

In today's second class of Socio-constructive Science & Technology I, we argued on "falsifiability". This idea appeared as a substitute of logical positivism to define science better. Logical positivism had mainly two problems. One is so c…

According to "An Invitation to Social Construction" written by Kenneth J. Gergen, the idea of "self" or "individual" originated in the philosophy of Enlightenment in 17 and 18 centuries. "self" or "individual" is in our each inner world, t…

Today, I held 2nd class of moomin seminar. At first I explained the outline of "Comet in Moominland" which was the next work to "Smalltroll and big flood". Next, the 21 students were divided into 5 groups and tackled the three tasks: the f…

This work was rewritten twice. The original title was "Kometjakten(Comet search)" in 1946, the second was "Mumintrollet på kometjakt(Moomintroll's comet search)" in 1956 and the final version was "Kometen kommer(Comet came)" in 1968. The d…

Last Saturday, 16 April, I and my wife went to our daughter's elementary school. Although our son, who is now in second grade in junior high school, was used to hate we visiting his elementary school, she wants us to visit her school. Anyw…

Today, I held 2nd time master course class. In this class, we discuss what scientific knowledge is. Today, we continued to argue some instances on scientific knowledge from las week. Last week, we took up Dr. Ichikawa's discovery and Dr. M…

Yesterday, my class of the liberal arts started. The class name is "Welcome to Moomin world!". Although this class's capacity is 23 students, more than 80 students gathered the 1st class! My pleasure! But I'm very sorry the students attend…