Understanding Inequalities:
Multidisciplinary Approaches and Comparative Perspectives

Workshop organized by theFondation France-Japon de l’EHESS & The Institute for Social Sciences (The University ofTokyo)
Tokyo, 11-12 July, 2014
With the support of (alphabetical order):EHESS, Fondation France-Japon de l’EHESS
Place: Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo
Contact and information : Kenji Hirashima (hirashim@iss.u-tokyo.ac.jp), Kae Amo(kae.amo@ehess.fr)

Friday, 11 July

1:30 p.m.

Welcome Address by Hiroshi Ishida (Director, ISS) and general introduction by KenjiHirashima (ISS) and Sébastien Lechevalier (EHESS)

Part I: New approaches on inequalities

Chair: Kenji Hirashima (ISS)

2 pm - 2:20 p.m.

Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann (PSE, INRA) & Gilles Postel-Vinay (PSE, EHESS):“The multidimensional aspects of intergenerational transmission of wealth and poverty in the long run:France, 1820-1960” (joint with Jérôme Bourdieu, Lionel Kesztenbaum)
Discussant: Ryo Kambayashi (Hitotsubashi University)1	   	  2:30-2:50 p.m. Sandrine Bretonnière (Cadis-EHESS/CNRS): “Inequalities in cancer care: focusing onbarriers to compliance during treatments”
Discussant: Chiaki Ishigaki (Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo)

3.00 p.m.

Coffee Break

3:30-3:50 p.m. Shin Arita (ISS): “A Comparative Analysis of Social Stratification in Japan, Koreaand Taiwan”
Discussant: Gilles Postel-Vinay (PSE, EHESS)

4.00-4:20 p.m. Kaku Sechiyama (Graduate School of Arts and Sciences): “Patriarchy in East Asia: A
Comparative Sociology of Gender”
Discussant: Sandrine Bretonnière (Cadis-EHESS/CNRS)

4.30-4:50 p.m. Hiroshi Yoshikawa (The University of Tokyo, Faculty of Economics): “Equality andsocial security in Post war Japan”
Discussant: Sebastien Lechevalier (EHESS)
5.00 p.m.

General Discussion

5:30 pm: closing of the first day

6:00 p.m.

Reception

Saturday, 12 July

Part II: Labor Inequalities: concepts & issues
Chair: Sébastien Lechevalier (EHESS)
2	   	  09:30 - 09:50 am

Bénédicte Zimmermann (Georg Simmel Center, EHESS)“Inequalities at Work: From Resources to Capabilities”

Discussant: Yuichiro Mizumachi (ISS)

10:00-10: 20 a.m.

Bernard Thomann (Inalco): “Another labor inequality: the social invisibility ofminer’s occupationnal diseases”

Discussant: Kazutoshi Kase (ISS)

10:30 a.m.

Coffee Break

11: 00-11:20 a.m.
Yuichiro Mizumachi (ISS): “Why Are There Many Expendable Workers inJapan? ― Issues and Mechanisms Underlying the Non-Regular Worker Problem”
Discussant: Bénédicte Zimmermann (Georg Simmel Center, EHESS)
11:30-11:50 a.m. Ryo Kambayashi (Hitotsubashi University): “Good Jobs, Bad Jobs, and the GreatRecession: Lessons from Japan’s Lost Decade” (joint with Takao Kato, Colgate University)
Discussant: Sébastien Lechevalier (EHESS)
Noon-00:20 p.m.

General discussion

00:20 p.m. -1:20 pmLunch

Part III: From Opinions to Discourses and Policies
Chair: Bernard Thomann (Inalco)

1:30-1:50 p.m.
Caroline Guibet Lafaye (Centre Maurice Halbwachs & GRECO, CNRS):“Rejection and tolerance of inequalities and their new dimensions in France”
Discussant: Shigeki Uno (ISS)

2. p.m.-2:20 p.m.

Shigeki Uno (ISS): “The transformation of intellectual discourses on

equality/inequality in contemporary Japan”
Discussant: Caroline Guibet Lafaye (Centre Maurice Halbwachs & GRECO, CNRS)

3	   	  2:30 pm - 2:50 p.m.

Sébastien Lechevalier (EHESS & MFJ): “Social mobility, social beliefs, andattitudes to redistribution. A comparison between the United States, France, and Japan”
Discussant: Takeshi Fujitani (ISS)

3. p.m.-3:20 p.m.

Takeshi Fujitani (ISS): “The Fate of RedistributiveTaxation in the Era ofGlobalization” (joint with Holger Görg, Kiel Institute)
Discussant: Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann (PSE, INRA)

3.30 p.m.

Coffee Break

4. p.m.-4:20 p.m.

Kenji Hirashima (ISS): "Nothing new to the unique welfare state? Japan incomparison with France"
Discussant: Bernard Thomann (Inalco)

5. p.m. Discussion

5:30 pm: closing of the workshop

6:00 p.m.

4	   	  Dinner