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Serendipity and Sociology: Five Decades of Studying Japanese Society

In this retirement lecture, Dr. Steinhoff talks about how she has used sociological concepts and methods to analyze Japanese society and social movements, but also acknowledges that much of her work has come about through serendipity: “the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way.” She traces her unfolding interest in Japan from her childhood through higher education, pointing to the generation in which she grew up and observed the changing world around her, and how her decision to study Japanese and then sociology in the early 1960s opened up unexpected opportunities. Describing how chance, relationships, and hard work came together in her subsequent research projects, she examines how her understanding of both Japanese society and sociology have changed over time.

Center for Japanese Studies and the Department of Sociology presents:

Dr. Patricia Steinhoff

Professor of Sociology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Refreshments will be served.

Wed., April 24, 2019

4:00pm

CKS Auditorium