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Nagayoshi Lab
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The lab uses social survey data to examine immigration and social attitudes.

AboutAbout the lab
Immigration and social attitudes, seen through data
Nagayoshi Lab studies social attitudes, international migration, and social stratification.
The lab mainly uses statistical methods to analyze social survey data.
It investigates what shapes people's attitudes toward accepting foreigners and toward social security policy.
It also studies the socioeconomic conditions of foreign nationals living in Japan.
Key terms
- Social attitudes
- The tendencies in thinking and opinions held by people in a society, which are read from responses collected in surveys
- Social integration
- The extent to which people who have moved to a society take part in it through work, daily life, and personal relationships
- Political polarization
- A process in which opinions split into two opposing extremes and moderate positions in between decrease
ResearchResearch themes
The lab mainly uses statistical methods to study social attitudes toward political issues and the social integration of immigrants. It analyzes social survey data and government statistics, focusing on the effects of social institutions and corporate employment management systems.
*Illustrative imageSocial Attitudes Toward Political Issues
The lab uses social attitude survey data to analyze what determines people's attitudes toward accepting foreigners and toward social security policy. It focuses on how social institutions shape people's cognitive frameworks, such as how they perceive foreigners and what they consider appropriate for reducing poverty.
*Illustrative imageSocial Integration of Immigrants
The lab examines the socioeconomic conditions of foreign nationals living in Japan, using social survey data and government statistics. It focuses in particular on the effects of labor market structure and corporate employment management systems.
*Illustrative imageHow Public Opinion Forms Online
The lab uses data such as social media data to analyze whether the political polarization often pointed out online is also occurring in Japan, and why it occurs.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorKikuko NagayoshiPublications ↗
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Flickr - Shinrya - Shinjuku Skyline at dusk” Pete Stewart from Perth, Australia / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Social Attitudes Toward Political Issues: “Glass ballot box - Smithsonian” National Museum of American History. Original uploader was Electiontechnology at en.wikipedia / Public domain (cropped)
- Social Integration of Immigrants: “Sunset At The Airport ( )” Jongsun Lee / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- How Public Opinion Forms Online: “Internet map 4096” Matt Britt / CC BY 2.5 (cropped)
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