Shōji Katō

Shōji Katō ( Japanese 加藤 昭 二 , Katō Shōji ; * 1930 [?]) Is a Japanese sociologist and university professor .

Live and act

As an academic student of Yoshio Atoji , Katō was appointed to the sociology chair at Nagoya University. He dedicated himself particularly to the research of community forms and is the most important connoisseur of the work of Ferdinand Tönnies in Japan .

Publications (selection)

• "Tönnies and Sociology in Japan", in: Lars Clausen / Franz Urban Pappi (eds.), Arrival at Tönnies , Mühlau, Kiel 1981, pp. 54–71.
• (Ed. With Minoru Nakata ( 中 田 実 )), Gendai shakai no kōzō to tenkai ( 現代 社会 の 構造 と 展開 , English Structure and Development of Modern Society ), Academia Shuppankai, Kyoto 1982.
• Researches in Social Life of a Rural Community in Central Japan .
  • Vol. 1: Social Organization, Social Character and Social Consciousness, and Folklore, Inazawa 1983.
  • Vol. 2: Farmers' Cooperative, Development of Education System, and Dialect , Inazawa 1982.
• "Tönnies and Takata. Correspondence and some problems about Takata's article 'The community as type' ”, in: Lars Clausen u. a. (Ed.), Tönnies today , Mühlau, Kiel 1985, pp. 146–166.
• “A Comparative Study of the Community Concept”, in: Lars Clausen / Carsten Schlüter (eds.), Hundred Years of “ Community and Society ”. Ferdinand Tönnies in the international discussion , Leske + Budrich, Opladen 1991, pp. 537-548.