SEMINAR ON COMPARATIVE SOCIETIES AND CULTUREWS

Kumagai Seminar:
Social Issues in the
Information Age SocietyA Comparative Perspective
Fumie Kumagai, Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology
Kyorin University, Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan
E-Mail: [email protected]
URL: http://www.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~n96287fk/
KSB: http://blog.livedoor.jp/fk_seminar/
KSB-Photo Album: http://ksb.cocolog-nifty.com/photos/ksb_photo/
OUTLINE
Objectives-To Know & To Express Yourself
Textbooks & References
Multimedia
Oral Presentations Using PowerPoint
Writing Training in English & Japanese
Retreats
Schedule for Two Years
What Is Expected of You?
Interested in This Seminar?
Experiential Seminar & Open Seminar
OBJECTIVES
• To Know & To Express Yourself
• To Understand the Information Age Society &
Social Issues
• To Learn to Debate on Controversial Social Issues
• To Study US-Japan Comparative Analyses
• To Familiarize Yourself with Multimedia
• To Understand Analyses vs. Descriptions
• To Ask WHY and to Think in English
• To Foster Both Objectivity & Subjectivity
• To Acquire Critical Writing Abilities in Japanese
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ASK WHY IT IS SO?
• Debates on Social Issues through
Sociological Perspectives
• A Comparative Perspective
• Analysis vs. Description
• Study Causal Relationships rather than
take things for granted.
• An Example: Poverty in the U.S.A.:
Why so many? What are the causes?
• http://www.census.gov/PressRelease/www/releases/archives/income_wealth/007419.html
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TEXTBOOKS & REFERENCES
Textbooks:
• Finsterburch & McKenna (eds.) 2006. Taking Sides:
Clashing Views on Controversial Social Issues, 14th ed.,
Dushkin/McGraw Hill, April 2006.
http://www.dushkin.com/text-data/catalog/
0073514969.mhtml?SECTION=OVERVIEW#over
• Webster’s New World Pocket Dictionary, Macmillan.
References: http://web.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~n96287fk/profile.html
• Kumagai, 1996. Unmasking Japan Today, Praeger.
• 熊谷文枝著『アメリカの家庭内暴力と虐待』2005. ミネルヴァ書房.
• 熊谷文枝著『２１世紀アメリカの社会問題』2004. 勁草書房．
• 熊谷文枝著『情報社会の未来』1999. ミネルヴァ書房.
• 熊谷文枝(編) 『日本の家族と地域性』上･下 1997. ミネルヴァ書房.
• 熊谷文枝著『日本的生産システムｲﾝUSA』1996. JETRO.
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Taking Sides: Social Issues,
14th ed.,
April 2006
(http://www.dushkin.com/text-data/catalog/
0073514969.mhtml?SECTION=OVERVIEW#over)
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MULTIMEDIA
• Kumagai Seminar HP:
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http://web.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~n96287fk/KumagaiSeminar/Kuma
gaiSeminar.html
Submit Assignments by E-mail
Search Web Sites on the Topic of Your Interest for Oral
Presentations (Google; Yahoo; Goo, etc.)
PowerPoint Slideshow Presentations in English
KSB: Kumagai-Seminar-Blog: Communication among
Kumagai Seminar Members
http://blog.livedoor.jp/fk_seminar/
KSB-Photo Album: http://ksb. cocolog-nifty.com/
photos/ksb_photo/
Kyorin e-Learning Websites:
http://www.kyorin-u.com/foreign/
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ORAL PRESENTATIONS
• Controversial Social Issues in the
Information Age Society
• Presentations in English (60 mts)
• Presentations Using PowerPoint
Slideshow Presentation Tool
• Foster Critical Thinking Abilities
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ENGLISH
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As Lingua Franca-an International Language
As a means of communication
To be able to express your own ideas clearly
Thinking in English
What you say (content) is far more important
than the fluency in English itself.
• Critical writing ability is essential of all the
skills in English.
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JAPANESE
• Critique in Japanese
• To foster and to express your
critical ideas
• To possess good
understandings on Japan to
well prepared for a member of
global society
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WRITING TRAINING IN ENGLISH
& JAPANESE
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Internet Society: ENGLISH & JAPANESE
ENGLISH as a Means of Communication
JAPANESE as Formation of Your Values
Train to Think in English
Summarize Articles in English
Write Thesis in English
Critique on Short Essays in JAPANESE
→SUBMIT ASSIGNMENTS BY E-MAIL
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Globalization and CrossCultural Communication
• Samuel P. Huntington, 1997,
The Clash of Civilization and Remaking of
World Order.
• Anthony Giddens, Runaway World:
How Globalization is Reshaping Our Lives,
BBC Reith Lectures 1999:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/events/reith_
99/default.htm
• Global Culture
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Globalization of Culture
●Global
Culture is NOT Equal to the
Universality of Culture
● Globalization based on Cross-Cultural
Communication
● Suggests Remaking of World Order
based on the Diversity of World Culture
● Language
● Religion
● Social Structure
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RETREATS (GASSHUKU)
• Spring Retreat (April) : Daigaku
Seminar House in Hachioji:
Orientation to the Seminar
• Summer Retreat (August) :
Hotaiji Zen Temple
in Shizuoka - Zazen
and Zen Culture
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SCHEDULE FOR TWO YEARS
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2007: April: Spring Retreat
2007: April-July: Taking Sides
2007: September: Paper Outline Due
2007: August: Summer Retreat
2007: October-December: Japanese Critique, and
Oral Presentations on American Issues
2008: January: Junior-Year Paper Due (Hard Copy)
2008: April-July: Social Issues in Japan
2008: August: Thesis Outline Due
2008: August: Fall Retreat
2008: October-December: Oral Presentations on
Japanese Issues
2008: December: Draft of Thesis Due (Hard Copy)
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WHAT IS EXPECTED OF YOU?
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Active Participation
Be Positive & Responsible for Yourself
Logical Reasoning
Be Explicit and Expressive
Be On Time For Assignments
Group Activities and Team Work
ADC: Autonomous, Distributive, &
Collaborative （自律･分散･協調）
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INTERESTED IN THIS SEMINAR?
• Challenging, Rewarding, and Accomplishment
• All Will Be Admitted Provided You Are Willing to Try
Hard
• Learning Process is More Important Over the
Consequence Itself
• “About Myself” (Short Essay in English) Pick up the
document from the Kyomuka, or Professor Kumagai
at Rm. D-510
• Attend One of the Experiential Seminar and/or
the OPEN SEMINAR → OPEN SEMINAR
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OPEN SEMINAR
• Debate on “Is Globalization
Good for Mankind?”
→YES /NO & WHY
• Critique in Japanese
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Experiential Seminar (ES) &
OPEN SEMINAR (OS)
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主旨：熊谷ゼミナール見学（ゼミナール生によるゼミナール
のdemonstration）と熊谷ゼミナール生との質疑応答
です。お気軽にお立ち寄りください。
日時：ES とOSがありますが、時間と場所は同じです。
時間：（火）曜日、第4,5,6時限（2:40p.m.~7:00p.m.頃迄）
場所：Rm. E-311
ES: 2006年10月17日, 24日, 31日（火）
OS: 2006年11月7日（火）（入ゼミ試験に該当します。
受験者は必ず出るようにして下さい。時間的に都合
が悪い場合は、事前に連絡をして下さい。）
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WHY DON’T YOU JOIN THE
KUMAGAI SEMINAR TO
CHALLENGE & REMEMBER
COLLEGE LIFE AT KYORIN!
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