Fate of social reform movements

5) Research on human nature and social factors that interfere with our attempt to change
We seek to live a good life and create a good society, but we have almost always failed. I suspect there might be human nature and/or social factors that interfere with our attempt to change our society and ourselves. I propose to research these interfering factors from the viewpoints of various disciplines including biology, psychology, history, and social sciences. This will be a totally interdisciplinary approach. This is our future research.

6) Research on the fate of social reform movements
This research has a close connection to the above one. We have had various social reform movements up until the present, for example, Marxism, totalitarianism, American capitalism, various religious communities, etc., but there were few movements that succeeded in creating a sustainable community where severe oppression against minorities could not be found. We have to know the end results of their movements, in order to think seriously about the limitation of "life studies." Future research.

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What is Life Studies
(2004)
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