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Affiliation: Professor, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (Sociology), Kumamoto University
: Visiting Researcher, Technical University of Berlin
: Visiting Researcher, Institute for Sustainable Community and Risk Management, Waseda University

Degree: Doctor(Waseda University)

J-GLOBAL ID: 200901057041917920
researchmap Member ID: 6000014767

External link: https://kumamoto-u.academia.edu/MitsuhiroTada

Research Interests

9

Research Areas

1

Humanities & social sciences / Sociology /

Major Research History

13

Apr, 2022 - Present

Professor, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (Sociology), Kumamoto University
Apr, 2017 - Present

Visiting Researcher, Institute for Sociology, Technical University of Berlin
Apr, 2007 - Present

Visiting Researcher, Institute for Sustainable Community and Risk Management, Waseda University
Apr, 2017 - Mar, 2022

Associate Professor, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (Sociology), Kumamoto University
Apr, 2012 - Mar, 2017

Associate Professor, Faculty of Letters, Kumamoto University
Oct, 2011 - Mar, 2012

Research Assistant, Sociology Major, Tokyo Metropolitan University

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Education

2

Major Committee Memberships

28

Mar, 2021 - Present

Editorial Board Member, Soziale Systeme: Zeitschrift für soziologische Theorie
Oct, 2018 - Present

Advisory Board Member, Brill Research Perspectives in Sociocybernetics and Complexity
Jun, 2021 - Jun, 2024

Board Member, The Japan Association for the Study on the Sociology of History
Oct, 2020 - Nov, 2020

Peer Reviewer, Time & Society
Sep, 2019 - Sep, 2019

Doctoral Dissertation Reviewer, Technical University of Berlin, Institute of Sociology
Jun, 2019 - Jul, 2019

Project Proposal Referee, The Czech Science Foundation
Apr, 2019 - Jun, 2019

Peer Reviewer, Theory and Society: Renewal and Critique in Social Theory
Dec, 2015 - Dec, 2018

Research Committee, Japan Sociological Society
Feb, 2015 - Apr, 2015

Project Proposal Referee, The Austrian Science Fund（FWF; Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung）
May, 2009 - Jun, 2010

Peer Reviewer, Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Mar, 2010 - May, 2010

Peer Reviewer, Philosophy of the Social Sciences

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Awards

3

Oct, 2017

Teaching Achievement Award:, Teaching Achievement Award (second prize), Kumamoto University

Teachers of, Practice in, Social Research, in the Department of, Integrated, Human Studies, Faculty of Le
Jun, 2014

Young Investigator's Award, The Temporal Construction of the Social World: Theory of Social Systems as Sociological Phenomenology, The Japan Association for the Study on the History of Sociology

Mitsuhiro TADA
2014

Research Achievement Award, Kumamoto University

Mitsuhiro TADA

Papers

40

Creating ‘Ignorance of Ignorance’ through School Education: A Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Victimhood Nationalism and Educational Ignorance in Japan

Tada, Mitsuhiro

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Mind Engineering, 386-403, Apr, 2024 Peer-reviewedInvitedLead authorLast authorCorresponding author
The Experience of Going to the University of Second Choice, the Meaning of School Record in the Era of Universal Access to University: Social Research Practice at the Faculty of Letters, Kumamoto University under the Corona Crisis. [In Japanese.]

Mitsuhiro TADA

Advances in Social Research, (32) 109-113, Mar, 2024 InvitedLead authorLast authorCorresponding author
Alfred Schutz on Race, Language, and Subjectivity: A Viennese Jewish Sociologist’s Lifeworld and Phenomenological Sociology within Transition from Multinational Empire to Nation-State

Mitsuhiro TADA

Kumamoto Journal of Humanities, (4) 103-158, Mar, 2023 Peer-reviewedLead authorLast authorCorresponding author
Culture of Society: The Concept of Culture in the Age of the World Society [A slightly modified English version]

Mitsuhiro TADA

Soziale Systeme: Zeitschrift für soziologische Theorie, 25(2) 277-304, Nov 22, 2022 InvitedLead authorLast authorCorresponding author
〈Book Review〉NAKAMURA, Bunya, SUZUKI, Takeshi, Kōiron kara miru shakaigaku [The Theory of Action in Times of Crisis]. [In Japanese.]

Mitsuhiro TADA

Journal of the Sociological Society of West Japan, (19-20) 105-106, Apr, 2022 InvitedLead author
Preface: Embracing the ‘Defeat’—The Reality and Meaning of Entering a Second-Choice University in an Era of Virtually Open Admission to Universities. [In Japanese.]

Mitsuhiro TADA

University-Going and Society: A Report on the Attitudes of Those Who Ended Up Going to Universities of Second Choice, 3-18, Mar, 2022 Corresponding author
How Society Changes: Sociological Enlightenment and a Theory of Social Evolution for Freedom

Mitsuhiro TADA

The American Sociologist, 51(4) 446-469, Oct 27, 2020 Peer-reviewedLead authorLast authorCorresponding author
Language and Imagined Gesellschaft: Émile Durkheim’s Civil-Linguistic Nationalism and the Consequences of Universal Human Ideals

Mitsuhiro TADA

Theory and Society, 49(4) 597-630, Jun, 2020 Peer-reviewedLead authorLast authorCorresponding author
Beyond the Ignorance of Ignorance: Sociological Considerations on the Relationship between School Education and the Nation-State in Japan. [In Japanese.]

Mitsuhiro TADA

Research Bulletin, 50 2-38, May, 2020 InvitedLead authorLast authorCorresponding author
Time as Sociology's Basic Concept: A Perspective from Alfred Schutz's Phenomenological Sociology and Niklas Luhmann's Social Systems Theory [A slightly modified English Version]

Mitsuhiro TADA

Time & Society (Paper Print Version), 28(3) 995-1012, Aug, 2019 Peer-reviewed
Language, ethnicity, and the nation-state: on Max Weber’s conception of “imagined linguistic community”

Mitsuhiro TADA

Theory and Society, 47(4) 1-30, Jun 26, 2018 Peer-reviewed
Meaning and Time. [In Japanese.]

Mitsuhiro TADA

Encyclopedia of Theory and Application in Sociology, 184-185, Jul, 2017 Peer-reviewedInvited
Foreword: To Those Who Walk the Pathless Path. [In Taiwanese Mandarin.]

Mitsuhiro TADA

A Girl Exploring the Balkans: Macedonia, Kosovo, and Albania, 3-5, May, 2017 Invited
Dark Tourism in Kumamoto: Leprosy and ‘Compressed Modernity’. [In Japanese.]

Mitsuhiro TADA

Daigakuteki Kumamoto gaido: Kodawari no arukikata, 156-159, Mar, 2017 Invited
Far from the 3.11 Disaster: A Report on the Social Survey of ‘Voluntary Evacuees’, Research Practice Class of the Faculty of Letters, Kumamoto University. [In Japanese.]

Mitsuhiro TADA

Advances in Social Research, (17) 97-103, Oct, 2016 Invited
Risk Society (U. Beck). [In Japanese.]

Mitsuhiro TADA

Eiga wa shakaigaku suru, 231-242, Jul, 2016
Time as Sociology’s Basic Concept: A Perspective from Alfred Schutz’s Phenomenological Sociology and Niklas Luhmann’s Social Systems Theory. [In Japanese.]

Mitsuhiro TADA

Studies on the History of Sociology, 38 7-24, Jun, 2016 Invited
Author’s Reply to Prof. Yasuo Baba’s Review of The Temporal Construction of the Social World: Theory of Social Systems as Sociological Phenomenology. [In Japanese.]

Mitsuhiro TADA

SOSHIOROJI, 60(3) 185-188, 2016 Invited
From Religion to Language: The Time of National Society and the Notion of the 'Shared' in Sociological Theory

Mitsuhiro TADA

The Annuals of Sociology, (56) 123-154, Mar, 2015 Invited
Language as a Zombie Category of Sociological Theory

Mitsuhiro TADA

International Histories of Sociology: Conference Proceedings of the Research Committee on History of Sociology from the XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology in Yokohama, 13–19 July 2014, 371-379, Jan, 2015

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Misc.

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Choosing Social Survey Practice: Report from the Social Survey Practice Class about ‘Choosing’ Voluntary Evacuation. [In Japanese.]

Mitsuhiro TADA

Japanese Association for Social Research, 2017 Invited
[Translation.] Doitsu seishōnen kenkyūjo no tokumei shussan oyobi akachan posto ni kansuru chōsa: Ketsuron (2011 nen) (= 2011, Joelle Coutinho und Claudia Krell, "Fazit", in: Joelle Coutinho und Claudia Krell, Anonyme Geburt und Babyklappen in Deutschland: Fallzahlen,

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Doitsu ni okeru "akachan posto" "tokumei shussan" ni kansuru shiryōshū [Selected Documents about "Baby Flaps [Baby Post]" "Anonymous Birth" in Germany, 59-69, 2014

Books and Other Publications

9

University-Going and Society: A Report on the Attitudes of Those Who Ended Up Going to Universities of Second Choice. [In Japanese.]

Practice in Social, Research I/II, Mitsuhiro Tada’s, Research Team, Socio-Human Studies Course, Department of Integrated, Human Studies, Faculty of Letters, Kumamoto University (Role: Supervisor (editorial), Preface: Embracing the ‘Defeat’—The Reality and Meaning of Entering a Second-Choice University in an Era of Virtually Open Admission to Universities)

Mar, 2022
Students Living in the Era of Globalization: A Report on the Attitudes of Students at a “Top Global University” toward Foreign Language and Globalization. [In Japanese.]

Practice in Social, Research I/II, Mitsuhiro Tada’s Research Team, Socio-Human Studies Course, Department of Integrated Human Studies, Faculty of Letters, Kumamoto University (Role: Supervisor (editorial), Preface: The Reality of Global Education at the End of the Heisei Era)

Feb, 2019
Rethinking Baby Hatch: New Attempts for Salvation of Mother and Child in Both Japan and Germany. [In Japanese.]

Tobias BAUER, Mitsuhiro TADA eds (Role: Joint editor)

2016
“Choosing” Voluntary Evacuation: A Report on the Attitudes of Those Evacuees Who came to Kumamoto after the 3.11 Disaster. [In Japanese.]

Social Research, Practice I/II, Mitsuhiro Tada’s Research Team, Socio-Human Studies Course, Department of Integrated Human Studies, Faculty of Letters, Kumamoto University (Role: Supervisor (editorial), Preface: In the Forth Anniversary Future after the "Forced Choice")

Mar, 2015
The Temporal Construction of the Social World: Theory of Social Systems as Sociological Phenomenology. [In Japanese.]

Tada, Mitsuhiro

Harvest-sha, Dec, 2013 (ISBN: 4863390491)
Today’s Student Jobseekers: A Report on the Attitudes of the “New Employment Ice Age” Generation. [In Japanese.]

Social Research, Practice I/II, Mitsuhiro Tada’s, Research Team, Socio-Human, Studies Course, Department of Integrated, Human Studies, Faculty of Letters, Kumamoto University (Role: Supervisor (editorial), Preface)

Mar, 2013
The Meaning of Tokyo: A Report on the Attitudes of Provincials toward “Going up to the Capital”. [In Japanese.]

(Role: Supervisor (editorial))

2009
GIWR Research Series No.3 Interviews: The Current Careers and Needs of the Young Scientists in Waseda. [In Japanese.]

Tada, Mitsuhiro (Role: Contributor)

General Institute for Women Researchers, Waseda University, 2007
GIWR Research Series No.4 Surveys: The Current Careers and Needs of the Young Scientists in Waseda. [In Japanese.]

Tada, Mitsuhiro (Role: Contributor)

General Institute for Women Researchers, Waseda University, 2007

Presentations

30

コメンテーター（嶺岸匠氏〔’神戸大学〕修士論文「Ｎ．ルーマンの社会理論における機能分化と人格――社会学的啓蒙の可能性」）

多田光宏

日本社会学理論学会第18回大会・修論フォーラム, Sep 3, 2023 Invited
Talcott Parsons’ Monolingualism and the Age of the National Society (distributed paper)

Tada, Mitsuhiro

International Sociological Association (RC08: History of Sociology), XX World Congress of Sociology: Resurgent Authoritarianism: Sociology of New Entanglements of Religions, Politics and Economies, Jun 27, 2023
Subjectivist Action Theory and Its Time

Tada, Mitsuhiro

May 8, 2022 Invited
Alfred Schutz on Race, Language, and Subjectivity: A Viennese Jewish Sociologist’s Lifeworld within Transition from Multinational Empire to Nation-State

Tada, Mitsuhiro

Sociological Seminar, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Passau, Feb 8, 2022 Invited
The Meaning of Language for Alfred Schutz and his Lifeworld in Vienna: From the Perspective of Assimilation and Othering of Viennese Jews

Tada, Mitsuhiro

The International Alfred Schutz Circle for Phenomenology and Interpretive Social Science, The 5th Conference "The Experience of the Stranger: The Struggle to Find a Home and the Struggle to Welcome the Stranger”, Jun 3, 2021
Alfred Schütz' Sprachsicht und ihr sozialer Hintergrund: Die Lebenswelttheorie des jüdischen Soziologen auf ihn selbst angewendet

Tada, Mitsuhiro

Workshop of the General Sociology, Institute of Sociology, Technical University of Berlin, Dec 2, 2019 Invited
Sociological Consideration on the Relationship between School Education and the Nation-State in Japan

Tada, Mitsuhiro

May 15, 2019 Invited
How Does Society Change Itself?: Toward a Theory of Social Evolution for Freedom

Tada, Mitsuhiro

Japan Sociological Society’s 91th Annual Congress Symposium: Sociological Theory of Individual Freedom and Social Order, Sep 16, 2018 Invited
Emile Durkheim’s View of Language: Organic Solidarity and Linguistic Unity in National Society

Tada, Mitsuhiro

European Sociological Association, Research Network 29 (Social Theory) Midterm Conference “Refigurations of Society: Sociological Perspectives on Modernity in Transition”, Sep 5, 2018
Kommunikative Intentionalität: Integration von Phänomenologie und Theorie sozialer Systeme

Tada, Mitsuhiro

IfS-Lunch-Seminar, Institute of Sociology, Technical University of Berlin, Nov 28, 2017 Invited
Time as Sociology’s Basic Concept: A Perspective from Alfred Schütz’s Phenomenological Sociology and Niklas Luhmann’s Social Systems Theory

Tada, Mitsuhiro

The Sociological Society of Graz: Guest lecture, Nov 9, 2017 Invited
Max Weber’s View of Language: Methodological Individualism and Imagined Linguistic Community

Tada, Mitsuhiro

wiwi aktuell: Guest Lecture (University of Klagenfurt, Austria), Nov 7, 2017 Invited
Max Webers Sicht auf Sprache

Tada, Mitsuhiro

Workshop of the General Sociology, Institute of Sociology, Technical University of Berlin, May 9, 2017 Invited
Imagined Linguistic Community: Max Weber and his View of Language

Tada, Mitsuhiro

International Sociological Association, RC08 Interim Conference: Monuments, Relics and Revivals, Jul 7, 2016
Time as Sociology’s Basic Concept: A Perspective from Alfred Schutz’s Phenomenological Sociology and Niklas Luhmann’s Social Systems Theory

Tada, Mitsuhiro

Jun 28, 2015 Invited
Language as a Zombie Category of Sociological Theory

Tada, Mitsuhiro

International Sociological Association (RC08: History of Sociology), XVIII World Congress of Sociology: Facing an Unequal World: Challenges for Global Sociology, Jul 18, 2014
Edmund Husserl in Talcott Parsons: Analytical Realism and Phenomenology

Tada, Mitsuhiro

International Sociological Association, RC16 Mid-term Conference: Cultures and Civilization in the Contemporary World, Jun 27, 2012
若手企画テーマ部会４「＜社会の社会学その２＞フィールドのなかの社会学者――社会学者は何にどのようにして社会を見出しているのか？」

討論者, 大倉季久, 皆吉淳平, 長松奈美江, 松田ヒロ子, 鶴見太郎, 司会, 多田光宏, 松井広志, 柳原良江, 部会企画者, 大倉季久, 多田光宏

日本社会学会第84回大会, Sep 18, 2011
若手企画テーマ部会１「＜社会の社会学その１＞『社会』とはそもそも何なのか？」

討論者, 市野川容孝, 左古輝人, 佐藤典子, 部会企画者, 論題提供者等, 大倉季久, 多田光宏, 鶴見太郎, 皆吉淳平

日本社会学会第84回大会, Sep 17, 2011
若手企画テーマ部会３「社会学の境界はどこにあるのか？──大学のなかの社会学」

登壇者: 坂本義和・周炫宗, 部会企画者・対談者: 石阪督規・佐藤典子・多田光宏・田中大介

日本社会学会第83回大会, Nov, 2010

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Major Professional Memberships

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Research Projects

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Clarifying Sociological Theories' Views on Language and Their Contemporary Social Backgrounds: From a Perspective of the Integration Problem of Postwar National Societies

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2023 - Mar, 2028

Tada, Mitsuhiro
On Linguistic Views of Postwar Sociological Theories: Socio-Historical Inquiry from National-Society Building until its End

KAKEN (Grand-in-Aid for Scientific Research B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2019 - Mar, 2024

Mitsuhiro TADA
Study on Alfred Schutz's Linguistic View and its Formative History

Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (Fostering Joint International Research (A)), Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (Fostering Joint International Research (A)), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2019 - Mar, 2021

Mitsuhiro TADA
Language and Social Theory in Transition from National Society to World Society: Historical and Theoretical Inquiry

KAKEN (Grand-in-Aid for Scientific Research C), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2016 - Mar, 2019

Mitsuhiro TADA
Comparative research on baby hatches in Japan and Germany

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2013 - Mar, 2016

Bauer Tobias, YOSHINAGA Yataro, SAKAMOTO Kyoko, TADA Mitsuhiro, TOKOTANI Fumio