Email:rhosoki[at]sophia.ac.jp

As budding sociologists in the Sociology SPSF Program, you will be challenged to nurture and use your sociological imaginations to see through the “noise” and critically reflect on how the mundane matter-of-fact elements in our daily lives are in fact fascinating social products that we, as social beings, constantly create, interact with, and reproduce. Through this “superpower” to see the realities, contradictions, and injustices within systems of privilege and power, we hope that each and every one of you – as sociologists and future social leaders – will develop the reflexive and critical skills to reflect on social privileges and embrace empathy, humility, and compassion in your journey through and beyond Sophia. All of us here are excited to be a part of that development, and welcome inquisitive and motivated minds from all walks of life.

Globalization, International migration, Social movements

・2024. “The Distinctive Incorporation of Sociological Neoinstitutionalism into Japanese Sociology and Its Theoretical Insights for the Discipline.” Japanese Journal of Sociology 34(1): 206-223.

・2023. “World Society Theory and Cultural Globalization: Contrasts with World-Systems Theory and International Relations Constructivism.” Sociological Studies 47: 1-21.

・2022. “Theorizing Why States Confer Rights and Protections to Itinerant Populations: Moving Beyond State Interests and International Norms and Thinking about the Social Construction of Deservingness.” Sociological Studies 46: 1-25.

・2022. “Demography and Social Movements and Revolutions.” In The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements, 2nd ed., edited by David A. Snow, Donatella Della Porta, Doug McAdam, and Bert Klandermans.

・2019. “Constitutions in World Society: A New Measure of Human Rights.” Pp. 85-109 in Constitution-Making and Transnational Legal Order, edited by Gregory Shaffer, Tom Ginsburg, and Terence C. Halliday. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (with Colin J. Beck, John W. Meyer, [Ralph I. Hosoki], and Gili S. Drori)

・2018. “The Determinants of Cross-national Variation in Migrants’ Access to Rights.” Sociological Inquiry 88(1): 155-179.

・2017. “Disaggregating Labor Migration Policies to Understand Aggregate Migration Realities: Insights from South Korea and Japan as Negative Cases of Immigration.” Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal 39(1): 83-110. (with Erin Chung [equal authorship])

・2016. “The Potential Role of Migrant Rights Advocacy in Mitigating Demographic Crises in Japan.” Pp. 285-336 in Japan’s Demographic Revival, edited by Stephen Nagy. Singapore: World Scientific.

・2009. 「日本の外国人労働者政策に対する圧カ—国際規範の動員アクターとしての労働組合の役割と限界の事例研究—」『相関社会科学』18: 93-100.