Kunihiro Kimura

Edition: 24.01E (1 April 2022)

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What's New (1 April 2022)

Updated "Links." (21 October 2021)

Recent Publications in English (1 April 2022)

"Japanese Women's Attitudes Toward Childrearing: Text Analysis and Multidimensional Scaling." Pp. 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 (18 April 2020)
"Can the Signaling Game Serve as a Model of Statistical Discrimination in Hiring?" Sociological Theory and Methods. 35(1):14-32. DOI https://doi.org/10.11218/ojjams.35.14 (31 March 2020) [Supplementary Tables and Figures]
"Gender-Based Discrimination, Inequality and Marriage." Pp.1-14 in Minorities and Diversity, edited by Kunihiro Kimura. Melbourne: Trans Pacific Press. (1 April 2011)

Recent Presentations in English (1 April 2022)

"Japanese women's attitudes towards childrearing: text analysis and multidimensional scaling." 16th Conference of the International Federation of Classification Societies (IFCS 2019),Thessaloniki, Greece. (28 August 2019)
"Stigma, Passing and the Interaction Order: A Game Theoretical Analysis." XIX World Congress of Sociology, International Sociological Association, Toronto, Canada. (18 July 2018)
"Signals, Indices, and Statistical Discrimination in Hiring." 3rd ISA Forum of Sociology, International Sociological Association, Vienna, Austria, (11 July 2016)
"Education, Employment, and Gender Role Attitudes of Japanese Married Women in the 21st Century: Declining Significance of Rational Choice and Cognitive Dissonance Reduction?" XVII World Congress of Sociology, International Sociological Association, Yokohama, Japan. (15 July 2014)
"Education, Occupation, and Intellectual Flexibility in the Japanese Context." 2013 IOS-Tohoku Symposium on Social Change and Social Inequality in Taiwan and Japan, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. (27 September 2013)
"Can the Signaling Game Serve as a Model of Statistical Discrimination?" Advances in Rational Choice Social Research, Preconference of the Rationality and Society Section, 108th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York, United States of America. (09 August 2013)

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Research Interests (02 April 2012)

Social Attitudes; Beliefs about Stratification
- Gender Ideology
- Perception and Feeling of Fairness
- Social Survey Methodology
Mathematical Models of Social Decision Making
- Collective Action and the Group Size
- Applications of Rational Choice Theory

Selected Publications (4 March 2021)

Curriculum Vitae (04 January 2010)

Syllabuses (in Japanese)

Miscellenea (in Japanese) (1 April 2022)

Links (21 October 2021)

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Kunihiro Kimura
Professor

Department of Behavioral Science
School of Arts and Letters
Tohoku University
27-1, Kawauchi, Aoba-ku, Sendai
980-8576 JAPAN

Phone/Telefax +81(JAPAN) 22 795 5967
E-mail: kkimura

tohoku.ac.jp