Professors Information

Email: j-farrer[at]sophia.ac.jp
Website: http://sophia.academia.edu/JamesFarrer
Tel: 03-3238-4066
Office: 10-503

FARRER James

Professor
Sociology

B.A., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago

Research and Teaching Interests:
My research focuses on urban life in Shanghai and Tokyo, including cuisine, nightlife, migrant communities, and urban sexual cultures. In teaching sociology at Sophia, my emphasis is developing students’ hands-on skills in qualitative research, encouraging them to use original data to write about social phenomenon while incorporating insights from previous sociological research.

Selected Publications

Books

Recent Articles and Chapters

Public Ethnography Website

  • Nishiogiology.org (Recognized March 2023 by the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs as an “exemplar of utilizing knowledge of Japanese food culture” (食文化「知の活用」振興事例).)

COURSES

Faculty of Liberal Arts

Course No.                              Title
SOC226 THE GOOD LIFE: FROM SELF TO SOCIETY
SOC309 FOOD AND SOCIETY
SOC316 QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS
SOC439 SOCIOLOGY OF SEXUALITY AND GENDER

Graduate Program in Global Studies

Course No.                              Title
AG528Z QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS
AG530Z GLOBAL CITIES
AG714Z ADAVNCED STUDIES IN QUALITAIVE RESEARCH METHODS
AG716Z ADVANCED STUDIES IN GLOBAL CITIES

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