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Profile Information

Affiliation: Associate Professor, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 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

Research Areas

Humanities & social sciences / Sociology /

Major Research History

Apr, 2017 - Present

Visiting Researcher, Institute for Sociology, Technical University of Berlin
Apr, 2017 - Present

Associate Professor, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Kumamoto University
Apr, 2007 - Present

Visiting Researcher, Institute for Sustainable Community and Risk Management, Waseda University
Apr, 2012 - Mar, 2017

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

Research Assistant, Sociology Major, Tokyo Metropolitan University

Education

Major Committee Memberships

Jun, 2021 - Present

Board Member, The Japan Association for the Study on the Sociology of History
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
May, 2018 - Present

Editorial Committee, Sociological Society of West Japan
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

Awards

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

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

Tada, Mitsuhiro

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
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 (Online First), 1-18, Jan, 2018 Peer-reviewed
Meaning and Time

Mitsuhiro TADA

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

Mitsuhiro TADA

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

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

Mitsuhiro TADA

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

Mitsuhiro TADA

Eiga wa syakaigaku 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

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

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

Tada, Mitsuhiro

The Annuals of Sociology (Shakaigaku Nenshi), (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
Edmund Husserl in Talcott Parsons: Analytical Realism and Phenomenology

Mitsuhiro Tada

HUMAN STUDIES, 36(3) 357-374, Aug, 2013 Peer-reviewed
Theory of the Social, Theory as the Social: On the Self-Application of Sociological Theory

Mitsuhiro TADA

The Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (JINBUN GAKUHO), Sociology, (47) 27-49, Mar, 2012 Invited
The Temporal Construction of the Social World: Theory of Social Systems as Sociological Phenomenology / Der zeitliche Aufbau der sozialen Welt: Theorie sozialer Systeme als soziologische Phänomenologie

Mitsuhiro TADA

Doctoral Dissertation, Waseda University, Dec, 2011 Peer-reviewed
Culture of Society : The Concept of Culture in the Age of the World Society

Tada Mitsuhiro

Japanese sociological review, 62(1) 36-50, Jun, 2011 Peer-reviewed
From Being to Becoming: Georg Simmel and the Ontology of Social Systems

Mitsuhiro TADA

Bulletin of the Georg Simmel Society in Japan, (16) 1-15, Mar, 2011 Invited

Misc.

Choosing Social Survey Practice: Report from the Social Survey Practice Class about ‘Choosing’ Voluntary Evacuation

Mitsuhiro TADA

Japanese Association for Social Research, 2017 Invited
Doitsu seishounen kenkyuujo no tokumei shussan oyobi akachan post ni kansuru chousa: Ketsuron (2011 nen) (= 2011, Joelle Coutinho und Claudia Krell, "Fazit", in: Joelle Coutinho und Claudia Krell, Anonyme Geburt und Babyklappen in Deutschland: Fallzahlen,

Mitsuhiro TADA trans

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

Books and Other Publications

Students Living in the Era of Globalization: A Report on the Attitudes of Students at a “Top Global University” toward Foreign Language and Globalization

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

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

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

Tada, Mitsuhiro

Harvest-sha, Dec, 2013 (ISBN: 9784863390492)
Today’s Student Jobseekers: A Report on the Attitudes of the “New Employment Ice Age” Generation

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”

(Role: Supervisor (editorial))

2009
GIWR Research Series No.3 Interviews: the current careers and needs of the young scientists in Waseda

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

Tada, Mitsuhiro (Role: Contributor)

General Institute for Women Researchers, Waseda University, 2007

Major Professional Memberships

Research Projects

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)), 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
Research on the Problem of Immigrants, Globalization, and Nationalism
Study on the Social Meaning of Tokyo and the Provincial's Experiences of "Go up to the Capital"
Study on the Time Theory of Social Order