Masayuki Kanai, Ph.D - Sociology, Yamagata University

Areas, Appointments, Education

Areas of Interest

Mathematical Sociology (Rational Choice, Social Inequality, Wellbeing)

Academic Appointments

2010-present. Professor, School of Human Sciences, Senshu University.

2005-2010. Associate professor, Faculty of Education, Art and Science, Yamagata University.

2004-2005. Associate professor, Faculty of Education, Yamagata University.

2001-2004. Assistant professor, Faculty of Education, Yamagata University.

1998-2001. Research fellow, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo.

Education

2000. Ph. D. (Advanced Social and International Studies), University of Tokyo.

1995. M. A. (Interdisciplinary Social Sciences), University of Tokyo.

1993. Bachelor of Liberal Arts, University of Tokyo.

Academic Activities

2018-present Secretary/Treasurer, Section on Rationality and Society, American Sociological Association.

2018-present Secretary/Treasurer, RC45 on Rational Choice, International Sociological Association.

2017-present Newsletter Editor, Section on Rationality and Society, American Sociological Association.

2016-present International Editor, Jurnal Masyarakat, Department of Sociology, University of Indonesia.

2015-present Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Japanese Sociology, Japan Sociological Society.

2015-2018 Board Member, RC45 on Rational Choice, International Sociological Association.

2015-2017 Council (Liaison), Japan Association for Mathematical Sociology.

2011-2013 Council (Secretary), Japan Association for Mathematical Sociology.

2009-2011 Council (Public Relations), Japan Association for Mathematical Sociology.

2008-2015 Treasurer, Local Organizing Committee for the 18th ISA World Congress of Sociology, Japan Sociological Society.

Selected Publications

2018. "Changes in the Impact of Social Mobility on Subjective Wellbeing in Japan: Evidence from the SSM surveys from 1975 to 2015 ," Daisuke Kobayashi ed., Reports on 2015 SSM Survey: Attitude II, 2015 SSM Committee, 165-183. [in Japanese]

2018. "Relative Comparison and Happiness: A Comparison between Seven Asian Societies," The Journal of Social Well-being Studies, 4: 81-98. [in Japanese]

2018. "Japanese Sociologists’ Characteristics on International Experiences and Attitude toward Internationalization of Sociology: Comparison between Surveys for Participants in the 18th World Congress of Sociology and for the Members of Japan Sociological Society," Shujiro Yazawa ed., Globalized and Globalizing Sociology in Japan Instead of Internationalization of Japanese Sociology: Internationalization of Japanese Sociology through formation of global academic community, Seijo University, 167-180. [in Japanese]

2017. Contemporary Japanese Sociology, Sage. (Edited with Jun Kobayashi and Junya Tsutsui.)

2017. "The Effect of Change in Living Arrangement on Subjective Wellbeing: Does Impact of the Past Decline with Time?," Sociological Theory and Methods, 32(1):127-139. [in Japanese]

2017. "Happiness in Japan, South Korea, and Vietnam: Findings of Social Well-being Studies (1)," The Journal of Social Well-being Studies, 3: 53-67. [in Japanese]

2016. "Contextual Effects of Bridging Social Capital on Subjective Well-being," The Senshu Social Well-being Studies, 2: 41-50.

2015. "A Review and Agenda for Social Well-being Research," The Journal of Social Well-being Studies, 1: 7-22. [in Japanese]

2014. "Inequality of Fertility and Social Capital: How Municipal Family Policies Compensate for Support Networks," in Ryuhei Tsuji and Yoshimichi Sato (eds.), Social Capital in an Unequal Society: The Quantitative Sociology of Happiness, University of Tokyo Press, 105-120. [in Japanese]

2013. "The Effect of Family Policy on Reducing Inequality in Childbearing," Bulletin of Senshu University, School of Human Sciences: Sociology, 3(2): 1-10. [in Japanese]

2012. "2011 Tokyo Survey on Marriage and Chil Care," Bulletin of Senshu University, School of Human Sciences: Sociology, 2(2): 185-90. [in Japanese]

2010. "From Macro to Micro or Micro to Macro?: Individual and Collective Social Capital in Tourist Destination Development," Sociological Theory and Methods, 25(1): 49-64. [in Japanese]

2010. "Social Network and Management of Japanese Hotels," Journal of Studies on Spa Region, 14: 1-9. [in Japanese]

2008. "Social Structure Supporting Community Development in Hot-spring Resorts," The Annual Report of the Tohoku Sociological Society, 37: 83-91. [in Japanese]

2008. "Two Management Policies of Japanese-style Hotels in a Spa Resort: Statistical Analysis of the Compound Cause and Effect between Capital and Hospitality," Bulletin of Yamagata University (Social Science), 38(2): 107-128. [in Japanese]

2007. "Reducing Free-riders in Modern Organizations: How do Partner Change Costs Promote Cooperative Behavior?," Sociological Theory and Methods, 22(2): 205-225. [in Japanese]

2007. "The Effect of Management Efforts on the Improvement of Accommodations," Journal of Studies on Spa Region, 9: 1-10. [in Japanese]

2005. "Evolution of Cooperation in N-person Prisoner's Dilemma with Intergroup Mobility: Effects of Mobility Cost and Duration of Interaction," in Hirokuni Oura (ed.) Evolutionary Game Theoretic Approach to the Problem of Order, Teikyo University. [in Japanese]

2004. "Necessity of Group Division in Evolution of Cooperation: A Dynamical Formalization of Selective Interaction Model," in Naoki Sudo (ed.), Empirical Possibility of Social Theories, Gakushuin University, 73-102. [in Japanese]

2003. "The Significance of Selective Interaction Models in the Evolutionary Game Theory," Sociological Theory and Methods, 18(2): 153-167. [in Japanese]

2002. Evolutionary Decision Making, Asakura-Shoten. [in Japanese]

2000. Evolution of Cooperation with Multi-level Selection, Ph.D. Dissertation in the University of Tokyo. [in Japanese]

Academic Memberships

International Sociological Association (RC28 on Social Stratification, RC45 on Rational Choice, RC55 on Social Indicators)
American Sociologycal Association (Rationality and Society, Mathematical Sociology)
International Society for Quality of Life Studies
Japan Sociological Society
Japanese Association for Mathematical Sociology

Professor of Sociology, Ph.D., Senshu University