| Position | Associate Professor |
|---|---|
| Faculty | Sociology |
| Graduate School | Sociology |
| Department | Sociology |
Career
| March 2003: | Completed coursework for Ph.D., Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo (withdrew) |
| April 2022: | Appointed to the Faculty of Letters, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo |
Research areas
Mathematical Sociology
1) Reconstructing Sociological Theory Using Computational Social Science Methods
My research focuses on reconstructing core sociological theories using new methods and data from computational social science. Specifically, I aim to identify latent meanings within large-scale digital text data, which has become increasingly accessible, and develop new mathematical methods to explore the mechanisms of meaning-making. This work seeks to refresh interpretative sociological theories that explain social actions based on meanings.
2) Exploring the Structure of Values, Morals, and Culture
Through the analysis of large-scale digital text data and text-based experiments, I investigate the internal structures of people's value and moral consciousness. My research aims to clarify the social conditions under which these values and morals are generated and how they motivate actions.
3) Understanding the Mechanisms of Social Division
By analyzing big data recording micro human behavior, I explore the mechanisms by which micro behavior and interactions leads to macro social division. This line of research, for example, seek to clarify how political communication in cyber-space leads to political polarization with SNS data or how human mobility patterns forms to segregation in urban spaces with human mobility data using GPS.
