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…

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 …

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 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…