HOMMERICH CAROLA

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Affiliation: Professor, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Sociology, Sophia University

Degree: Dr. rer. pol (Sociology)(University of Cologne)
Magistra Artium (Sociology, English Literature, Japanese Studies)(University of Cologne)

Researcher number: 60770302
J-GLOBAL ID: 201501009203770239
researchmap Member ID: B000249252

Research Interests

Research Areas

Humanities & social sciences / Sociology /

Research History

Sep, 2022 - Present

Sophia University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Sociology, Professor
Sep, 2019 - Sep, 2022

Sophia University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Sociology, Associate Professor
Sep, 2015 - Sep, 2019

Associate Professor, Hokkaido University, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Department of Sociology
Apr, 2008 - Aug, 2015

Senior Research Fellow, German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ), Tokyo
Nov, 2013 - Dec, 2013

Adjunt Lecturer, University of Duisburg-Essen, Institute of East Asian Studies
Apr, 2011 - Aug, 2013

Adjunct lecturer, Hitotsubashi University, Department of Sociology
Mar, 2013 - Mar, 2013

Adjunct Lecturer, University of Zurich, Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies
Oct, 2009 - Mar, 2010

Adjunct Lecturer, Sophia University, Faculty of Liberal Arts

Education

Apr, 2004 - Mar, 2008

Dr. rer. pol. (Sociology), Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences, University of Cologne
Oct, 1997 - Mar, 2004

Magistra Artium (Sociology, English Literature, Japanese Studies), Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Cologne

Committee Memberships

Oct, 2022 - Present

Editorial board member, Psychologia
Apr, 2022 - Present

Research fellow, Senshu University, Center for Social Well-being Studies
2019 - Present

Executive Board (Second Vice President), German-Japanese Society for Social Sciences
Dec, 2011 - Present

Organizer of the “Sociology and Social Anthropology” section, German Association for Social Science Research on Japan (VSJF)
Nov, 2021 - Nov, 2023

Board Member (International Liaison Committee), Japan Sociological Society
Dec, 2016 - Nov, 2022

Elected Board Member, German Association for Social Science Research on Japan (VSJF)
Apr, 2020 - Mar, 2022

専門調査員, 文部科学省科学技術・学術政策研究所科学技術予測センター

Awards

Sep, 2023

Outstanding Paper Award, Determinants of Interdependent Happiness Focusing on the Role of Social Capital: Empirical Insight From Japan. Japanese Psychological Review, 2022, 64(2): 205-221, Japanese Psychological Association

Carola Hommerich, Susumu Ohnuma, Kazushige Sato, Shogo Mizutori
Feb, 2017

President's Award for Outstanding Education, Hokkaido University

Carola Hommerich
2013

VSJF-Award for the best German language article on Japan in the social sciences by a young researcher 2011/2012, VSJF

Carola Hommerich
2006

German Young Researcher Award (Deutscher Studienpreis, third place), Körber Stiftung

Carola Hommerich
2005

Winner of the Essay Competition „Japan – my view“ by DAAD and the Language Institute of Northrhine-Westfalia, Bochum

Carola Hommerich

Papers

Perceived Social Exclusion Partially Accounts for Social Status Effects on Subjective Well-Being: A Comparative Study of Japan, Germany, and the United States

Christina Sagioglou, Carola Hommerich

Applied Research in Quality of Life, Mar, 2024 Peer-reviewed
Determinants of Interdependent Happiness Focusing on the Role of Social Capital: Empirical Insight From Japan

Carola Hommerich, Susumu Ohnuma, Kazushige Sato, Shogo Mizutori

Japanese Psychological Research, Mar 11, 2022 Peer-reviewedLead author
Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Household Income and Mental Well-Being: Evidence from a Panel-Survey in Japan

Hiroshi Kanbayashi, Carola Hommerich, Naoki Sudo

理論と方法 (Sociological Theory and Methods), 36(2) 260-278, Mar, 2022 Invited
S. Schwartzの概念枠組みにもとづく価値観の国際比較――ドイツと日本における「大学生調査」のデータ分析

真鍋一史, Wolfgang Jagodzinski, Eldad Davidov, Hermann Duelmer, Carola Hommerich

関西学院大学社会学部紀要, 133 87-106, Mar, 2020
No generalizable effect of income inequality on public support for governmental redistribution among rich democracies 1987–2010

Nate Breznau, Carola Hommerich

Social Science Research, 81 170-191, Jul, 2019 Peer-reviewed
Movement behind the Scenes: The Quiet Transformation of Status Identification in Japan

Carola Hommerich, Toru Kikkawa

Social Science Japan Journal, 22(1) 11-24, Feb, 2019 Peer-reviewed
The limits of inequality: Public support for social policy across rich democracies

Nate Breznau, Carola Hommerich

International Journal of Social Welfare, Nov, 2018 Peer-reviewed
Analyzing the Relationship Between Social Capital and Subjective Well-Being: The Mediating Role of Social Affiliation

Carola Hommerich, Tim Tiefenbach

Journal of Happiness Studies, 19(4) 1091-1114, Apr 1, 2018 Peer-reviewed
What Words Make People Happy?: A Mixed Methods Approach by Text Mining Analyses of Open-ended Data in Japan (in Japanese)

Jun Kobayashi, Carola Hommerich

ソーシャル・ウェルビーイング研究論集, (4) 31-47, Apr, 2018 Peer-reviewed
Are Happiness and Unhappiness Two Sides of the Same Coin? An Analysis of Happiness and Unhappiness

Jun Kobayashi, Carola Hommerich

Sociological Theory and Methods, 32(1) 49-63, 2017 Peer-reviewed
Feeling Disconnected: Exploring the Relationship Between Different Forms of Social Capital and Civic Engagement in Japan

Carola Hommerich

VOLUNTAS, 26(1) 45-68, Feb, 2015 Peer-reviewed
Naze kōfuku to manzokudo wa icchi shinai no ka? Shakai ishiki e no gōriteki sentaku apurōchi (Why do Happiness and Satisfaction not Coincide? A Rational Choice Approach to Social Psychology)

Jun Kobayashi, Carola Hommerich, Akiko Mita

Bulleting of the Faculty of Humanities, Seikei University, (50) 87-99, 2015
Seikatsu ni manzoku shiteiru hito wa kōfuku ka – SSP-W2013-2nd chōsa dêta no bunseki (Are Satis-fied People Happy? Analysis of SSP-W2013-2nd Survey Data)

Jun Kobayashi, Carola Hommerich

Bulleting of the Faculty of Humanities, Seikei University, (49) 229-237, 2014
Adapting to risk, learning to trust: Socioeconomic insecurities and feelings of disconnectedness in contemporary Japan

Carola Hommerich

Asiatische Studien/Etudes Asiatiques, 67(2) 429-455, 2013 Peer-reviewed
ステータス不安、孤立感、幸福感をめぐるメカニズム : 日独比較調査の結果から

Hommerich Carola, Bude Heinz, Lantermann Ernst-Dieter

中央調査報, (654) 1-5, Apr, 2012
Trust and Subjective Well-being after the Great East Japan Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Meltdown: Preliminary Results

Carola Hommerich

International Journal of Japanese Sociology, 21(1) 46-64, Mar, 2012 Peer-reviewed
The advent of vulnerability: Japan’s free fall through its porous safety net.

Carola Hommerich

Japan Forum, 24(2) 205-232, 2012 Peer-reviewed
Sutētasu fuan, haijo ishiki to kōfukudo no mekanizumu - doitsu nihon kenkyūjo no chōsa kekka kara (Mechanisms shaping status anxiety, feelings of disconnectedness and happiness – results of a German-Japanese comparative survey)

Carola Hommerich, Heinz Bude, Ernst-Dieter Lantermann

Chūō chōsa hō, (654) 1-5, 2012 Invited
Japanese "Furita" and German "Generation Internship": The "precarious post-materialist" as an extension to Inglehart's theory of value change

Carola Hommerich

ASIA EUROPE JOURNAL, 5(4) 479-498, Jan, 2008 Peer-reviewed

Books and Other Publications

Sustainability in a Fragile World. Perspectives from Germany and Japan

Carola Hommerich, Masato Kimura (Role: Joint editor, Editor)

Sophia University Press, 2024 (ISBN: 9784324113752) Peer-reviewed
Examining Cross-Cultural Value Questionnaires with Quantitative Methods, in: Akinori Okada, Kazuo Shigemasu, Ryozo Yoshino, Satoru Yokoyama (eds.): Facets of Behaviormetrics.

Wolfgang Jagodzinski, Kazufumi Manabe, Hermann Dülmer, Carola Hommerich, Eldad Davidov (Role: Joint author, pp. 99-121)

Springer Singapore, 2023
ウェルビーイングの社会学

櫻井義秀, 猪瀬優理, 川又俊則, 遠山景広, カローラ・ホメリヒ, 清水香基, 翁康健, 佐藤千歳, 樋口麻里, 工藤遥, 坂無淳, 中西尋子, 道信良子, 横山穰, 片桐資津子, 金昌震, 伍嘉誠, 横山聖美, 竹中健 (Role: Contributor, 「第4章若者のウェルビーイング：多様化する若者とその幸福像（カローラ・ホメリヒ・清水香基・翁康健）」)

Hokkaido University Press, Nov, 2022 (ISBN: 9784832968875)
Social Change in Japan, 1989-2019: Social Status, Social Consciousness, Attitudes and Values

HOMMERICH CAROLA (Role: Joint editor)

Routledge, 2021
How to combine methods: Mixed methods designs, in: Kottmann, Nora and Cornelia Reiher (eds.): Studying Japan: Handbook of Research Designs, Fieldwork and Methods.

HOMMERICH CAROLA (Role: Joint author, pp. 256-274)

Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2020
分断社会と若者の今

Carola Hommerich, Koki Shimizu (edited, by Toru Kikkawa, Ryotaro Hazama (Role: Joint author, 若者の人生評価。「幸福」と呼ばれる理想の適応（pp. 87-106))

Osaka University Press, Apr 10, 2019 (ISBN: 487259679X)
The Structure of Happiness: Why Young Japanese Might be Happy After All.

HOMMERICH CAROLA (Role: Contributor, In: Heinrich, Patrick; Galan, Christian (eds.): Being Young in Super-Aging Japan. Formative Events and Cultural Reactions. London: Routledge, pp. 132-149.)

Routledge, Jun, 2018
Anxious, Stressed, and Yet Satisfied? The Puzzle of Subjective Well-being among Young Adults in Japan

HOMMERICH CAROLA (Role: Contributor, In: Manzenreiter, Wolfram; Holthus, Barbara (eds.): Life Course, Happiness and Well-being in Japan.)

Routledge, 2017 (ISBN: 9781138290594)
The Gap as Threat: Status Anxiety in the ‘Middle’

HOMMERICH CAROLA (Role: Contributor, In: Chiavacci, David; Hommerich, Carola (eds.): Social Inequality in Post-Growth Japan: Transformation during Economic and Demographic Stagnation.)

Routledge, 2017
Social Inequality in Post-Growth Japan: Transformation during Economic and Demographic Stagnation (Routledge Contemporary Japan Series)

HOMMERICH CAROLA (Role: Joint editor)

Routledge, 2017 (ISBN: 1138638986)
Prekarisierungsgesellschaften in Ostasien? Aspekte der sozialen Ungleichheit in China und Japan. (Chapter "Die Wahrnehmung der Differenzgesellschaft – Abstiegsängste und subjektive Exklusion in Japan", pp. 155-176)

HOMMERICH CAROLA (Role: Contributor)

Harrassowitz, 2016 (ISBN: 9783447105057)
ライフスタイルとライフコース－データで読む現代社会（コラム「孤立感―なぜ不安を抱くのか）

HOMMERICH CAROLA (Role: Contributor)

新曜社, 2015 (ISBN: 4788513846)
Forschung födern. Am Beispiel von Lebensqualität im Kulturkontext (Chapter "Are Satisfied People Happy? An Analysis of SSP-W2013-2nd Survey Data", pp. 201-216

HOMMERICH CAROLA (Role: Contributor)

UKV Verlagsgesellschaft, 2015 (ISBN: 3867645744)
Anleitung für ein erfolgreiches Stadtentwicklungsprogramm: Beispiele aus neun europäischen Ländern (German Edition)

HOMMERICH CAROLA (Role: Joint editor)

VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, May, 2012 (ISBN: 3810040274)
Japan 2011: Politik, Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft. VSJF (Chapter "Neue Risiken, neues Selbstbild: Japan in verunsichernden Zeiten", pp. 259-294)

HOMMERICH CAROLA (Role: Contributor)

VSJF, 2011 (ISBN: 9783981213157)
Freeter und "Generation Praktikum" Arbeitswerte im Wandel?: Ein deutsch-japanischer Vergleich

HOMMERICH CAROLA

Iudicium, 2009 (ISBN: 3891298560)

Presentations

Eine Revolution des Bewusstseins? Einstellungswandel zu Umweltproblemen und Klimawandel in Japan und Deutschland

Carola Hommerich, Joanna Kitsnik

Fachgruppensitzung "Soziologie und Sozialanthropologie", Jahrestagung der Vereinigung Sozialwissenschaftlicher Japanforschung 2023, Nov 4, 2023
A Revolution in Consciousness? Changes in Environmental Attitudes in Japan and Germany

Joanna Kitsnik, Carola Hommerich

96th Annual Conference of the Japanese Sociological Society, Oct 9, 2023
Perceived social exclusion in Japan: An analysis using SSP2022 data

Hiroshi Kanbayashi, Carola Hommerich

96th Annual Conference of the Japanese Sociological Society, Oct 9, 2023
Social Stratification of Mental Well-Being during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from Two Panel-Surveys in Japan

Carola Hommerich (presenting, Naoki Sudo, Hiroshi Kanbayashi

21st Annual Conference of the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies, Aug 23, 2023
UN-Quality of Life Initiative, Expert Group Meeting (EGM2)

Pre-meeting to ISQOLS 2023, Rotterdam, Aug 22, 2023 Invited
Social Affiliation Accounts for Intercultural Differences of Social Status Effects on Psychological Well-Being: A Comparative Study of Japan, Germany, and the United States

Carola Hommerich, presenting, Christina Sagioglou

XX. ISA World Congress of Sociology, Jun 27, 2023
新型コロナウィルス流行後におけるオンラインパネル調査データの分析（2）メンタルヘルス回復期に現れる階層的差異の検討

Carola Hommerich, Naoki Sudo

95th Meeting of the Japanese Sociological Society., Nov 13, 2022, Nov 13, 2022
Gute wissenschaftliche Praxis: Braucht die Japanologie eigene Ethikrichtlinien?

Cornelia Reiher, Cosima Wagner (Panel chairs), Speakers: Carola Hommerich, Sabine Imeri, Elisabeth Scherer

18. Deutschsprachiger Japanologentag, Aug 26, 2022 Invited
Socioeconomic status and psychological well-being in Japan, Germany, and the USA

Christina Sagioglou, Carola Hommerich

26th International Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology, Jul, 2022
Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Household Income and Mental Well-Being: Evidence from a Panel-Survey in Japan

Carola Hommerich (presenting, Hiroshi Kanbayashi, Naoki Sudo

VSJS Annual Conference 2021, Section Sociology and Socioanthropology, Nov 20, 2021
新型コロナウィルス流行期におけるオンラインパネル調査データの分析（2）――ウェルビーイングの変化とその階層的差異

Naoki Sudo, Carola Hommerich, Hiroshi Kanbayashi

94th Meeting of the Japanese Sociological Society., Nov 13, 2021
新型コロナウィルス流行期におけるオンラインパネル調査データの分析(1)――世帯収入の変化とその規定因

Hiroshi Kanbayashi, Carola Hommerich, Naoki Sudo

94th Meeting of the Japanese Sociological Society., Nov 13, 2021
The Fear of Not Being Ordinary – Shifting Societal Model and Social Well-being in Japan

Carola Hommerich

Richard J. Estes Lecture (invited lecture), 2021 International Society for Quality of Life Studies, Virtual Conference., Aug 27, 2021 Invited
The Happiness Movement - Social and Subjective Well-Being as Topic of Public Policy

Carola Hommerich

新たな目標検討のためのビジョン策定（ミレニア・プログラム）「マルチスケールなエネルギー収穫と貯蔵によるHO・DO・HO・DO の分散ネットワーク社会で第二の故郷を！」, May 11, 2021 Invited
The Gap as Threat – Japan’s Precarious Middle Class

Carola Hommerich

The Inaugural Congress of East Asian Sociological Association, Mar 9, 2019
The Limits of Inequality: Public support for social policy across rich democracies

Carola Hommerich, Nate Breznau

Joint Symposium of Seoul National University and Hokkaido University 2018, Dec 7, 2018
Measuring Happiness: The Structure of Determinants and Possible Interpretations

Carola Hommerich

専修大学ソーシャル・ウェルビーイング研究センター, 第28回研究会, Oct 19, 2018 Invited
Die stille Transformation subjektiver Schichtzugehörigkeit in Japan: Bedeutung von Mittelschicht im Wandel

Carola Hommerich, Toru Kikkawa

39. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Sep 27, 2018
どのような言葉が人を幸せにするのか ――─自由回答のテキスト・マイニング分析を用いた混合研究法アプローチ

Jun Kobayashi, Carola Hommerich

91th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Sociological Association, Sep 27, 2018
Die stille Transformation subjektiver Schichtzugehörigkeit in Japan: Bedeutung von Mittelschicht im Wandel

Carola Hommerich, Toru Kikkawa

Sektion Soziologie, 17. Deutschsprachiger Japanologentag, Aug 31, 2018

Professional Memberships

Research Projects

Nationwide data collection of SSP2020 Survey and methodological investigation of web survey based on random sampling

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Osaka University, Apr, 2019 - Mar, 2025
Decline of the old middle class in Japan: Consequences for social consciousness and political attitudes

Foundation for Research in Science and the Humanities at the University of Zurich, Sep, 2021 - Feb, 2025

David Chiavacci, Carola Hommerich
社会的危機状況下における人びとの意識の変容とその階層差に関する社会学的解明

科学研究費助成事業基盤研究(B), 基盤研究(B), 日本学術振興会, Apr, 2021 - Mar, 2024

數土直紀, 前田忠彦, 神林博史, 小林大祐, 永吉希久子, ホメリヒカローラ, 吉川徹
Joint International Research for Interrogating Social Mechanisms of Asian Social Well-Being

Apr, 2019 - Mar, 2022
Clinical Sociology of Well-being and Well-dying in Super-Aged Japan

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2019 - Mar, 2022
Constructing a new standard of sociological methodology by mixed methods: A challenge to combine data and theory

Challenging Research (Exploratory), Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Apr, 2017 - Mar, 2020

Jun Kobayashi
平成期の社会意識の趨勢の計量的解明

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research(基盤研究(A)), Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Apr, 2016 - Mar, 2019

Kikkawa Toru
Social and Subjective Well-being in Eastern and Western Contexts - a Comparative Approach

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Wakate B), Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Apr, 2016 - Mar, 2019

Carola Hommerich
人口減少社会日本における宗教とウェルビーイングの地域研究

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Apr, 2015 - Mar, 2018

Yoshihide Sakurai

Media Coverage

他者のために生き、行動する上智学院のサステナビリティ

中高生新聞, Apr, 2022 Newspaper, magazine
Kleine Störfälle. Schulschließungen in Rekordlänge, keine Kinderrechte im Grundgesetz, ein umstrittener Kinderpsychiater als Talkshow-Dauergast: Hat Deutschland ein Problem mit Kindern? Ein vergleichender Blick in andere Industrieländer

Süddeutsche Zeitung, Dec, 2021 Newspaper, magazine

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