CAROLA HOMMERICH

ホメリヒカローラ | CAROLA HOMMERICH

Affiliation and department：
Job title： Professor

Research field (1)： Sociology

Research keywords (8)： Attitudes towards climate change , Risk Society , Subjective Well-being , Social Capital , International Comparison , Social Stratification , Class Identification , Sociology

Research theme for competitive and other funds (10)：

2024 - 2026 The Individual as Driver of the Green Shift. An Analysis of Environmental Attitudes and Willingness to Support Climate Change Mitigation Measures in Japan
2019 - 2025 Nationwide data collection of SSP2020 Survey and methodological investigation of web survey based on random sampling
2021 - 2025 Decline of the old middle class in Japan: Consequences for social consciousness and political attitudes
2021 - 2024 社会的危機状況下における人びとの意識の変容とその階層差に関する社会学的解明
2019 - 2022 Joint International Research for Interrogating Social Mechanisms of Asian Social Well-Being

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Papers (21)：

Christina Sagioglou, Carola Hommerich. Perceived Social Exclusion Partially Accounts for Social Status Effects on Subjective Well-Being: A Comparative Study of Japan, Germany, and the United States. Applied Research in Quality of Life. 2024
Carola Hommerich, Susumu Ohnuma, Kazushige Sato, Shogo Mizutori. Determinants of Interdependent Happiness Focusing on the Role of Social Capital: Empirical Insight From Japan. Japanese Psychological Research. 2022
Hiroshi Kanbayashi, Carola Hommerich, Naoki Sudo. Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Household Income and Mental Well-Being: Evidence from a Panel-Survey in Japan. 理論と方法 (Sociological Theory and Methods). 2022. 36. 2. 260-278
Naoki Sudo, Carola Hommerich, Toru Kikkawa. Japan after the Heisei Period Where are we heading?. Social Change in Japan, 1989-2019: Social Status, Social Consciousness, Attitudes and Values. 2020. 169-173
Carola Hommerich, Naoki Sudo, Toru Kikkawa. Understanding heisei Japan Anchoring amidst transformation. Social Change in Japan, 1989-2019: Social Status, Social Consciousness, Attitudes and Values. 2020. 3-15

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MISC (1)：

Carola Hommerich, Naoki Sudo, Toru Kikkawa. Social Change in Japan, 1989-2019: Social Status, Social Consciousness, Attitudes and Values. Social Change in Japan, 1989-2019: Social Status, Social Consciousness, Attitudes and Values. 2020. 1-175

Books (16)：

Sustainability in a Fragile World. Perspectives from Germany and Japan
Sophia University Press 2024 ISBN:9784324113752
Examining Cross-Cultural Value Questionnaires with Quantitative Methods, in: Akinori Okada, Kazuo Shigemasu, Ryozo Yoshino, Satoru Yokoyama (eds.): Facets of Behaviormetrics.
Springer Singapore 2023
ウェルビーイングの社会学
Hokkaido University Press 2022 ISBN:9784832968875
Social Change in Japan, 1989-2019: Social Status, Social Consciousness, Attitudes and Values
Routledge 2021
How to combine methods: Mixed methods designs, in: Kottmann, Nora and Cornelia Reiher (eds.): Studying Japan: Handbook of Research Designs, Fieldwork and Methods.
Baden-Baden: Nomos 2020

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Lectures and oral presentations (43)：

Perceived Social Exclusion as Mediator of Social Status Effects on Psychological Well-being: A Comparative Study of Japan, Germany, and the United States
(22nd Annual Conference of the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies 2024)
Who Drives the Green Shift? Environmental Attitudes in Japan from 1993 to 2020
(German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ), Tokyo, Business & Economics Study Group 2024)
A Revolution in Consciousness? Changes in Environmental Attitudes in Japan and Germany
(2nd ISSP User Conference 2023)
Eine Revolution des Bewusstseins? Einstellungswandel zu Umweltproblemen und Klimawandel in Japan und Deutschland
(Fachgruppensitzung "Soziologie und Sozialanthropologie", Jahrestagung der Vereinigung Sozialwissenschaftlicher Japanforschung 2023 2023)
A Revolution in Consciousness? Changes in Environmental Attitudes in Japan and Germany
(96th Annual Conference of the Japanese Sociological Society 2023)

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Education (2)：

2004 - 2008 University of Cologne Dr. rer. pol. (Sociology), Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences
1997 - 2004 University of Cologne Magistra Artium (Sociology, English Literature, Japanese Studies), Faculty of Arts and Humanities

Professional career (2)：

Dr. rer. pol (Sociology) (University of Cologne)
Magistra Artium (Sociology, English Literature, Japanese Studies) (University of Cologne)

Work history (8)：

2022/09 - 現在 Sophia University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Sociology, Professor
2019/09 - 2022/09 Sophia University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Sociology, Associate Professor
2015/09/01 - 2019/09/20 Hokkaido University, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Department of Sociology Associate Professor
2008/04/01 - 2015/08/31 German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ), Tokyo Senior Research Fellow
2013/11/29 - 2013/12/13 University of Duisburg-Essen, Institute of East Asian Studies Adjunt Lecturer

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Committee career (9)：

2023 - 現在 Japan Sociological Society International Liaison Committee
2023 - 現在 Japan Sociological Society Conference Committee
2022/10 - 現在 Psychologia Editorial board member
2022/04 - 現在 Senshu University, Center for Social Well-being Studies Research fellow
2019 - 現在 German-Japanese Society for Social Sciences Executive Board (Second Vice President)

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Awards (5)：

2023/09 - Japanese Psychological Association Outstanding Paper Award Determinants of Interdependent Happiness Focusing on the Role of Social Capital: Empirical Insight From Japan. Japanese Psychological Review, 2022, 64(2): 205-221
2017/02 - Hokkaido University President's Award for Outstanding Education
2013 - VSJF VSJF-Award for the best German language article on Japan in the social sciences by a young researcher 2011/2012
2006 - Körber Stiftung German Young Researcher Award (Deutscher Studienpreis, third place)
2005 - Winner of the Essay Competition „Japan - my view“ by DAAD and the Language Institute of Northrhine-Westfalia, Bochum

Association Membership(s) (7)：

Japanese Association for Statistical Mathematics (JAMS) , 北海道社会学会 , German-Japanese Society for Social Sciences , German Association for Social Science Research on Japan (VSJF) , German Sociolocial Association (GSA) , THE JAPAN SOCIOLOGICAL SOCIETY , International Sociological Association (ISA)

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