Professor Takehiko Kariya, (BA, MA Tokyo, PhD Northwestern), is Professor in the Sociology of Japanese Society and Faculty Fellow. He was elected in 2008. Professor Kariya obtained his PhD in sociology at Northwestern University. He came to Oxford in 2008 from the Graduate School of Education at the University of Tokyo, where he had been a professor of sociology of education until 2009. His main areas of research are in sociology of education, social stratification, school-to-work transition, educational and social policies, and social changes in postwar Japan. His recent publications in English are: “The End of Egalitarian Education in Japan? : The Effect of Policy Changes in Resource Distribution on Compulsory Education,” in Challenges to Japanese Education: Economics, Reform, and Human Rights, Edited by June A. Gordon, Hidenori Fujita, Takehiko Kariya, and Gerald K. LeTendre, Teachers College Press, 2010. “From Credential Society to ‘Learning Capital’ Society: A Rearticulation of Class Formation in Japanese Education and Society,” in Social Class in Contemporary Japan, edited by Hiroshi Ishida and David H. Slater, Routledge, 2009. “Japan at the Meritocracy Frontier: From Here, Where?” co-authored with Ronald Dore, in The Rise and Rise of Meritocracy, edited by Geoff Dench, Blackwell Publishing, 2006.
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