Kawabata Akira

2013 - 2018 Development of pluralism invoking vitalism and common religiosity -integration of theory and empirical analysis based on international data of people's beliefs-

2011 - 2016 Adaptation and Development of A Japanese New Religion in Europe and USA-Emergence of New Community and the Role of Religion

2011 - 2016 Empirical Study of Associational Transformation between Social Stratification and Social Psychology in Contemporary Japan

2012 - 2014 The Determinants of Volunteer Behavior

2011 - 2014 International Comparative Study on Testimony

2009 - 2011 A Methodological Study in Cross-National Comparative Surveys

2009 - 2011 Qualitative study on the social perception of" predisposition genetic testing" and its social network.

2008 - 2010 Americanization of A Japanese New Religion under globalization-the Case of SGI-USA

2007 - 2010 A US-JAPAN COMPARISON OF LONG TERM FOLLOW UP SURVEYS FOR OCCUPATION, FAMILY AND PERSONALITY

2005 - 2007 Sociological Studies about Potentiality of Japanese New Religion under Globalization

2005 - 2007 The Construction and the Use of Discourse Database as Social Research Method : as Case Study on Religious Consciousness

2005 - 2007 A Cross-National Comparative Research of Values and Religiosity of Contemporary People : Focusing on the Asian Perspective

2004 - 2007 Lifelong Panel Survey Research of Occupation, Family and Personality

1995 - 2005 Study on Open-ended Questionare Answer Method in Social Research

2001 - 2004 The Study on the Cultural, Psychological, and Social Effects of the Revolution in Information Technology(IT)

2001 - 2003 The New Computer-Aided Qualitative Data Analysis System in Social Research

1995 - 2003 社会調査における自由回答法の研究

1990 - 2003 信仰と社会的ネットワーク

1990 - 2003 Religion and Social Network

1996 - 1998 The New Procedure to Code and analyze the Open-ended Questions' Data in Social Research

1996 - 1997 現代日本のル-ラリズム-漂泊と定住の視点から

1994 - 1994 信仰の受容と信者組織に関する実証的研究

1990 - 1992 学術用モニター・システムの開発