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  • On the Sociology of Ikutaro Shimizu
  • チシキ シャカイガク ノ カダイ

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Ikutaro Shimizu was born in 1907 and died in 1988. He was a first sociologist who criticized bourgeois sociology based on historical materialism in 1930 s. But the Marxism he understood was not Marx's social theories but Soviet version which turned out the abstract general theory on history and society. During World War II, he abandoned Marxism and was converted to bourgeois sociology. It was said that because of his acceptance of American pragmatism he could be converted to sociology.<BR>In the War time he read works of John Dewey and George Herbert Mead. After the War he published many books on sociology and social psychology and acknowledged himself to be a scholar who introduced pragmatism to Japan. But he could not understand the basic idea of pragmatism. For example, when he cited a part of Mead's The Philosophy of the Act in Japanese, he made a serious misunderstanding about what Mead said. Mead said “in so far……the tendency of scientific procedure is to analyse it into the ultimate physical particles, the ultimate scientific objects, which are thought of as existing not only in independence of these values but also as independent of all conduct and as the reality of the world within which humann beings with the values with which they endow these objects arise.” Shimizu could not understand the meaning of “particle” in this context and translated into Japanese “elememts.” <BR>In his Movements of Thought in the Nineteenth Century, Mead said “one can……return the stolen goods to the universe, give it back its color, its form, its meaning and beauty……” Shimizu did not read this. But if he could read it, he could not understand what Mead said.

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