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…