Selected Publications (4 March 2021)
- Books
- Kobayashi, Jun'ichi, and Kunihiro Kimura, eds. 1991. Thinking Sociologically. (in Japanese) Kyoto: Minerva-shobo.
- Kobayashi, Jun'ichi, and Kunihiro Kimura. 1997a. Looking Society from the Mathematical Perspective. (in Japanese) Kyoto: Nakanishiya.
- Kimura, Kunihiro, ed. 2000a. Development of Rational Choice Theory in Sociology, Report of Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Reserch, No.09410039.
- Kimura, Kunihiro. 2002. The Large Number Dilemma: Mathematics of Collective Action and the Group Size. (in Japanese) Kyoto: Minerva-shobo.
- Kimura, Kunihiro. 2006. Critical Thinking of Everyday Life: A Sociological Approach. (in Japanese) Tokyo: Kawade-shobo-shinsha.
- Kimura, Kunihiro, ed. 2011a. Minorities and Diversity, Melbourne: Trans Pacific Press.
- Articles
- Kimura, Kunihiro. 1983. "Strategic and Normative Aspects of Power: Directive Dominance and Dramatic Dominance." (in Japanese) The Annual Reports of the Tohoku Sociological Society. 12:101-119. The Tohoku Sociological Society.
- Kimura, Kunihiro. 1984. "The Exercise of Power and the Interaction Order: Erving Goffman on Power." (in Japanese) The Study of Sociology. 47:131-150. Tohoku Sociological Association.
- Kimura, Kunihiro. 1985a. "Why Large Groups Tend to Fail?" (in Japanese) Pp.97-110 in Mathematical Sociology Today, edited by Junsuke Hara and Michio Umino. Nishinomiya: Association for Mathematical Sociology.
- Nishida, Haruhiko, Kunihiro Kimura, and Keiji Hasegawa. 1988. "A Statistical Analysis of Rural Community Cards 1980." (in Japanese) The Study of Sociology. 52:47-90. Tohoku Sociological Association.
- Kimura, Kunihiro. 1988. "Dilemma of Leadership: A Game Theoretic Analysis" (in Japanese) Sociological Theory and Methods. 3(1):27-41. Japanese Association for Mathematical Sociology.
- Kimura, Kunihiro. 1989a. "Unintended Consequences in Formal and Bureaucratic Organizations: A Review of Mathematical/Quantitative Approaches." (in Japanese) Sociological Theory and Methods. 4(1):53-72. Japanese Association for Mathematical Sociology.
- Kimura, Kunihiro. 1989b. "Large Groups and a Tendency Towards Failure: A Critique of M. Olson's Model of Collective Action." Journal of Mathematical Sociology. 4(4):263-271. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/0022250X.1989.9990055
- Kimura, Kunihiro. 1991. "The Olson Problem." (in Japanese) Pp.167-197 in The Problem of Order and Social Dilemmas, edited by Kazuo Seiyama and Michio Umino. Tokyo: Harvest.
- Takei, Makiji, and Kunihiro Kimura. 1992. "Social Class and Educational Aspiration of High School Students: An Application of Bourdieu's 'Cultural Reproduction' Theory." (in Japanese) Studies in Humanities. 80:1-31. Faculty of Humanities, Niigata University.
- Kimura, Kunihiro. 1993. "Perception of Pollution as a Social Dilemma." Journal of Mathematical Sociology. 18(1):81-91. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/0022250X.1993.9990117
- Kimura, Kunihiro. 1994a. "A Micro-Macro Linkage in the Measurement of Inequality: Another Look at the Gini Coefficient." Quality & Quantity. 28(1):83-97. DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01098727
- Kimura, Kunihiro. 1994b. "The Olson Problem and Resource Mobiliztion: Rational Choice Theory and Political Sociology of Social Movements." (in Japanese) Sociological Theory and Methods. 9(1):39-54. Japanese Association for Mathematical Sociology.
- Kimura, Kunihiro. 1995a. "Game Theoretical Formulations of the Olson Problem." International Journal of Japanese Sociology. 4:99-117. Japan Sociological Society. DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-6781.1995.tb00032.x
- Kimura, Kunihiro. 1998a. "Education, Belief about Educational Credentialism and the Feeling of Fairness." (in Japanese) Sociological Theory and Methods. 13(1):107-126. Japanese Association for Mathematical Sociology.
- Kimura, Kunihiro. 2000b. "Structure of Labor Market and Social Consciousness of Married Women in Japan." (in Japanese) Pp. 177-192 in Gender, Market, and Family (Stratification System in Japan 4), edited by Kazuo Seiyama. Tokyo: The University of Tokyo Press.
- Kimura, Kunihiro. 2001. "The Tradition of Empirical Research and Rational Choice Theory." (in Japanese) Pp.257-280 in Trends in American Sociology, edited by Mamoru Funatsu. Tokyo: Kousei-sha-Kousei-kaku.
- Kimura, Kunihiro, and Mikiko Shinoki. 2007a "Decision and Justification in the Social Dilemma of Recycling. I. A Two-Stage Model of Rational Choice and Cognitive Dissonance Reduction." Sociological Theory and Methods. 22(1):31-48. Japanese Association for Mathematical Sociology. DOI https://doi.org/10.11218/ojjams.22.31
- Shinoki, Mikiko, and Kunihiro Kimura. 2007b "Decision and Justification in the Social Dilemma of Recycling. II. Empirical Tests of Predictions from the Model." Sociological Theory and Methods. 22(1):49-69. Japanese Association for Mathematical Sociology. DOI https://doi.org/10.11218/ojjams.22.49
- Kimura, Kunihiro. 2007c. "Education, Employment and Gender Ideology." Pp.84-109 in Gender and Career in Japan, edited by Atsuko Suzuki. Melbourne: Trans Pacific Press.
- Kimura, Kunihiro. 2010. "Sex-Based Discrimination Trends in Japan, 1965-2005: The Gender Wage Gap and the Marriage Bar." Pp.156-171 in Discrimination in an Unequal World, edited by Miguel Angel Centeno and Katherine S. Newman. New York: Oxford University Press. DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199732166.003.0008
- Kimura, Kunihiro. 2011b. "Gender-Based Discrimination, Inequality and Marriage." Pp.1-14 in Minorities and Diversity, edited by Kunihiro Kimura. Melbourne: Trans Pacific Press.
- Kimura, Kunihiro. 2020a. "Can the Signaling Game Serve as a Model of Statistical Discrimination in Hiring?" Sociological Theory and Methods. 35(1):14-32. Japanese Association for Mathematical Sociology. DOI https://doi.org/10.11218/ojjams.35.14 [Supplementary Tables and Figures]
- Kimura, Kunihiro. 2020b. "Japanese Women's Attitudes Toward Childrearing: Text Analysis and Multidimensional Scaling." Pages 423-438 in Advanced Studies in Behaviormetrics and Data Science (Behaviormetrics: Quantitative Approaches to Human Behavior, vol 5), edited by Tadashi Imaizumi, Atsuho Nakayama, and Satoru Yokoyama. Singapore: Springer. DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2700-5_26
- Research Note
- Kimura, Kunihiro. 2000c. "Being Unmarried under Sex Discrimination and Inequality within the Sexes: A Simple Model." Sociological Theory and Methods. 15(2):375-382. Japanese Association for Mathematical Sociology. DOI https://doi.org/10.11218/ojjams.15.375
- Survey Reports
- Kimura, Kunihiro. 1990a. "Feeling of Fairness of High School Students." (in Japanese) Pp.73-88 in Social Consciousness of High School Students and Their Parents, II., edited by Michio Umino and Kazuo Katase. Sendai: Research Group on Education and Culture, Tohoku University.
- Kimura, Kunihiro. 1990b. "Feeling of Fairness and Beliefs about Stratification." (in Japanese) Pp.89-102 in Social Consciousness of High School Students and Their Parents, II., edited by Michio Umino and Kazuo Katase. Sendai: Research Group on Education and Culture, Tohoku University.
- Kimura, Kunihiro. 1995b. "Beliefs about Social Stratification and Feeling of Fairness." (in Japanese) Pp.78-101 in Contemporary Studies in Social Stratification and Mobility, edited by Toshiki Sato. Report of Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Reserch, No.04301016.
- Kimura, Kunihiro. 1996. "The Significance of Education for Japanese Women: Education, Occupation and Gender Role Attitudes." (in Japanese) Pp.121-138 in Social Consciousness of High School Students and Their Parents, III., edited by Shoitsu Suzuki, Michio Umino, and Kazuo Katase. Sendai: Research Group on Education and Culture, Tohoku University.
- Kimura, Kunihiro. 1998b. "Education, Employment and Gender Ideology of Japanese Married Women." (in Japanese) Pp.23-48 in Social and Psychological Functioning of Gender and Stratification, 1995 SSM (Social Stratification and Mobility) Survey Series, vol.14, edited by Fumiaki Ojima. Tokyo: Research Group for 1995 SSM (Social Stratification and Mobility) Survey.
- Kimura, Kunihiro, and Keiko Genji. 2001. "Educational and Occupational Aspirations of High School Students." (in Japanese) Pp.11-26 in Social Consciousness of High School Students and Their Parents, IV., edited by Kazuo Katase. Sendai: Research Group on Education and Culture, Tohoku University.
- Katase, Kazuo, Kunihiro Kimura, and Koji Abe, eds. 2005. Social Consciousness of High School Students and Their Parents, V. (in Japanese) Sendai: Research Group on Education and Culture, Tohoku University.
- Kimura, Kunihiro. 2005. "The Significance of Education for Japanese Women Reconsiderd: A Time-Series Analysis of Education, Occupation and Gender Role Attitudes." (in Japanese) Pp.57-70 in Social Consciousness of High School Students and Their Parents, V., edited by Kazuo Katase, Kunihiro Kimura, and Koji Abe. Sendai: Research Group on Education and Culture, Tohoku University.
- Kimura, Kunihiro, ed. 2009. Social Consciousness of High School Students and Their Parents, VI. (in Japanese) Sendai: Research Group on Education and Culture, Tohoku University.
- Kimura, Kunihiro, ed. 2014. Formation of High School Students' Social Attitudes and Skills in the Transition Era. (in Japanese) Sendai: Research Group on Education and Culture, Tohoku University.
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