SAKAKIBARA Kenjiro, Senior Researcher
Department of Theoretical Social Security Research
(Concurrent: Department of Empirical Social Security Research)
Updated; 08/18/2022
Research Field
- Sociology of Disability, Medical Sociology, Welfare Sociology
Research Project
- "The National Survey on Social Security and People's Life"
- "A Comprehensive Study on the Realization Strategy of Japan’s Plan for Dynamic Engagement of All Citizens"
- "Sociological Disability Statistics for the Measurement of Social Exclusion Experienced by Disabled Persons"
- "Ethnomethodology as an Approach to the Sociology of Disability"
External Activities
Japan Sociological Society
Kantoh Sociological Society
Japan Association for Social Policy Studies
Japanese Society for the Study of Social Welfare
Japan Society for Disability Studies
Reviewer (Kantoh Sociological Society, Japan Society for Disability Studies)
Session Organizer (Conference of Kantoh Sociological Society)
Award
Young Sociologist Award (Book Division, Japan Sociological Society, 2017)
Publications
Sakakibara, Kenjiro (2022) "To What Extent Does a Person with a Disability Certificate Experience Disadvantages in Social Life? Multivariate Analysis that Considers Types of Disability" In: National Institute of Population and Social Security Research ed., supervised by Kuniaki Tanabe and Yukimitsu Nishimura, Precarious Lives and Social Security in Japan: Constructing a New Safety Net System, University of Tokyo Press.
The Sociology of Disability as a New Perspective: From the Social Model to the Sociological Reflection (Editor, Chapter 7: The Sociology of Disability and the Disability Studies, Prologue, Epilogue), Tokyo: Shinyosha (2019)
Social Inclusion and the Body: Disability Definition and Different Treatments Following Disability Antidiscrimination Legislation (in Japanese, Single Author), Tokyo: Seikatsu Shoin (2016)
Papers
Sakakibara, Kenjiro (2019) "Work Exclusion and Disability Types: The Heterogeneity of Disability as Social Exclusion in the 2011 Irish Census Microdata" Irish Journal of Sociology 28(1) 65-86 (Peer-reviewed)
Sakakibara, Kenjiro (2018) "The Disablement Score: An Intersubjective Severity Scale of the Social Exclusion of Disabled People" Societies 8(12) 1-13 (Peer-reviewed)
Sakakibara, Kenjiro (2014) "Scarcity and the Body in Social Inclusion: On Construction of Disability Category" (in Japanese) Annual Review of Sociology 27: 85-96 (Peer-reviewed)
Sakakibara, Kenjiro (2013) "Inclusion and the Body in Special Needs Education" (in Japanese) Japanese Sociological Review 64(3): 474-491 (Peer-reviewed)
Sakakibara, Kenjiro (2012) "Social Inclusion and Disability: An Inquiry into the 'Dumping' Problem" (in Japanese), Annual Review of Sociology 25: 84-95 (Peer-reviewed)
Sakakibara, Kenjiro (2011) "Disability and Attachment of Values to Individuals" (in Japanese) Journal of Disability Studies 7: 275-300 (Peer-reviewed)