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Sophia University ／ SPSF

WEISS, Tobias
WEISS, Tobias
  • Field
    Political Sociology, Field Theory, Japanese Studies, Journalism, Civil Society, Social Movements

  • Asssociate Professor

    Mag.art., Hamburg University

    Ph.D.(Japanese Studies), University of Zurich

  • Contact

    tobiasweiss[at]sophia.ac.jp

  • Message to Prospective Students

    I am political sociologist with a research focus on Japanese media, politics and civil society. Feel free to approach me if you have any questions or problems.

  • Research Interests and Teaching Areas

    Political Sociology, Field Theory, Japanese Studies, Journalism, Civil Society, Social Movements

  • Selected Works

    ・(2019) Auf der Jagd nach der Sonne. Das journalistische Feld und die Atomkraft in Japan. Studien zur Politischen Soziologie. Studies on Political Sociology, Volume 36 (Eds. Hauke Brunkhorst, Andrew Arato and Regina Kreide). Nomos: Baden-Baden. Review by Fabian Schäfer in Social Science Japan Journal 24 (1): 213-216 (https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyaa034).

    ・(2025) Civil Society and Newspaper Journalism: The Nuclear Power Debate in Japan. In Avenell, Simon; Ogawa, Akihiro (Eds.). Handbook of Civil Society of Japan. Amsterdam University Press, 124-140.

    ・(2024) Responsibility for the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster in the Japanese Media: TEPCO and the “Nuclear Village” or Prime Minister Kan and the DPJ? In Köhn, Stephan; Hülsmann, Katharina (Articulations of the Nuclear. Postwar Japan under the Spell of the Atomic Age, Wiesbaden, Harrasowitz.

    ・(2021) Elements of Max Weber’s Model of Rationalization in the Political Analysis of Maruyama Masao. Asiatische Studien 75 (2): 255-293 (https://doi.org/10.1515/asia-2019-0034).

    ・(2021, with Kei’ichi Satō) Vertical and Horizontal Networks Revisited: Exploring Their Effects on Attitudes and Advocacy Toward Nuclear Energy. Social Science Japan Journal 24 (1): 85-113 (https://org/10.1093/ssjj/jyaa050).

    ・(2020) Uniformity or Polarization? The Nuclear Power Debate in Japanese Newspapers and Political Coalitions 1973-2014. Contemporary Japan 33 (1): 57-122 (https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2020.1824647).

    ・(2020) Journalistic Autonomy and Frame Sponsoring. Explaining Japan’s “Nuclear Blind Spot” with Field Theory. Poetics 80: 1-16 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2019.101402).

    ・(2019) Japan’s ‘Pro-Nuclear Civil Society’: Power in the Analysis of Social Capital and Civil Society. Journal of Civil Society 15 (4): 326-352 (https://doi.org/10.1080/17448689.2019.1668631).

     

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