Studies on Social Networks and Urban Sociology in Japan

This paper is a manuscript of the report, for the 30 annual session of Japan Association for Urban Sociology, on September 9, 2012. It pointed out several points that seems to be important for the further discussion , and raised the issues, by looking back the empirical researches on social networks and personal networks of mine until now. Especially it focused on, and discussed about following points: the necessity to make a clear distinction between kinship and kin networks, the possibility to unite the theory of urban life-structure and the one of personal networks, the issue about viewing neighborhood networks, the issue about homogeneity of friendship networks in Japan, and the further subject about friendship networks.