List of writings

　●　Kobayashi,　K.,1977, “The Division of Labor in Marx's Social Theory,” Ryudo,1977-7:76-94.

　●　Kobayashi, K.,1978, “The Life-process in Die Deutsche Ideologie,” Method of Social Science, 109:11-16.

　●　Kobayashi, K.,1979, “The Method of Critique of Ideology in Die Deutsche Ideologie,” The Study of Sociology,37:110-30.

　●　Fujiyama, Y., Sato, N. and Kobayashi, K.,1979,“Social Action of the Wounded after the　Earthquake,” The Study of Sociology,38:69-120.

　●　Hosoya, T. and Kobayashi, K.,1980, “Changes of Mura and Agricultural Organization,” Annual Bulletin of Rural Studies,16:251-97.

　●　Yokoyama, S and Kobayashi, K.,1982, “Agricultural Organization and Farmer's Consciousness,” Annual Bulletin of Rural Studies,18:213-43.

　●　Kobayashi, K. and Akiba, S.,1983, “Community Development of Local City,” Annual Bulletin of Japanese Culture Research,20:85-109.

　●　Kobayashi, K.,1983, “Development and Problem of Tyonaikai Movement,” The Study of Sociology,46:81-95.

　●　Kobayashi, K.,1984, “On the 'Base and Super-structure' Theory,” The Annual Reports of the Tohoku Sociological Society,13:55-77.

　●　Kobayashi, K.,1985, “Today's Rural Community and Farmer's Consciousness,” The Study of Sociology,48:47-68.

　●　Kobayashi, K.,1985, “Society as a Productive Process,” Culture,49(1-2):1-14.

　●　Kobayashi, K.,1986, “Critique of Ideology and Social Concept,” The Study of Sociology, 49:143- 63.

　●　Kobayashi, K.,1986, “Changes and Development of Agricultural Organization,” Annual Bulletin of Rural Studies,22:183-212.

　●　Hosoya, T., Kobayashi, K., Akiba, S., Nakajima, N., and Ito, I.,1988, “The Differentiation of the Farmer's Orientation and the Changes of the Structural Character of Villages,” Annual Bulletin of Rural Studies,24:71-118.

　●　Kobayashi, K.,1989, “Freedom and Time in Marx's Social Theory,” The Study of Sociology, 54: 111-33.

　●　Kobayashi, K.,1990, “Today's Situation of Agricultural Organization,” Annual Bulletin of Osaka University of Foreign Studies,3:175-99.

　●　Kobayashi, K., Matsui, K., and Tokugawa, N.,1990, “Today's Agriculture in Shonai and Farmer's Situation,” The Annual Reports of the Tohoku Sociological Society,19:1-28.

　●　Iwasa, S., Kobayashi, K. and Watanabe, N.,1992, Perspective of Die Deutsche Ideologie, Sofu-sha,Tokyo.

　●　Kobayashi, K.,1992, “On the Viewpoint of Liquefaction in Marx's Theory,” The Study of Sociology,59:1-21.

　●　Hosoya, T., Kobayashi, K., Akiba, S., Nakajima, N. and Ito, I.,1993, Individuality and Collectivity in the Rural Community, :Otyanomizu-shobo,Tokyo.

　●　Kobayashi, K.,ed.,1995, Sociology of the Social Action and the Times, Sofu-sha, Tokyo.

　●　Kobayashi, K., Ohzeki, M., Suzuki, T., Ito, I. and Takeuchi,M.,1996, Social Theory of Human Reconstruction, Sofu-sha,Tokyo.

　●　Hosoya, T, Kanno, M., Kobayashi, K., Nakajima,N., Fujiyama, Y., Fuwa, K. and Niu Feng Rui,1997, Seething Rural Community in China, Otyanomizu-shobo, Tokyo.

　●　Kobayashi, K.,1997, “Sociality of Labor and Reification of Money,” Hosoya, T. ed., Contemporary Sociology and Marx, Academia,Kyoto:171-199.

　●　Kobayashi, K.,1997, “Changes and Development of Rural Society in Tohoku” The Annual Reports of the Tohoku Sociological Society,26:21-43.

　●　Kobayashi, K.,1999, Agricultural Organization and Farmer's Situation, Taga-shuppan,　Tokyo.

　Some abstracts

　Kobayashi, K.,1985, “Today's Rural Community and Farmer's Consciousness,” The Study of Sociology,48:47-68.

    In this study, we tried to show how the rural society is influenced by the policy of the cutback in rice production. We made analyses on the tendency of rice production and rice farmer's attitude in Shonai district in Yamagata Pref. While the rapid economic growth since 1955 brought about dramatically the mechanization in rice cultivation, it also brought about the decline of the sole source of income, and, the increase of the needs to combine agriculture with non-farm work in individual farm. Consequently, three types of rice farmer's intention arose in Shonai : sole cultivation of rice with the pursuit of scale-merit, combination of other kind crops, and chief income from a non-farming source.

　Kobayashi, K.,1986, “Changes and Development of Agricultural Organization,” Annual Bulletin of Rural Studies,22:183-212.

    In this paper we pointed out that new organizations to facilitate cooperative farm operation and management appeared in Shonai district. Wet-rice farmers in this district have been engaging in joint cultivation since 1960s. We found these collectives changed their function and form into contemporary three types : one to share the use of farm machines, the other for collective cultivation on agreements, and farming all or part of someone else's land. Although the agricultural production union still covers the hamlet, but the distinction between hamlet and those various organizations increasingly aiming at self-interest is inevitable.

　Kobayashi, K.,1990, “Today's Situation of Agricultural Organization,” Annual Bulletin of Osaka University of Foreign Studies,3:175-99.

    The cutback in rice production that started in 1970 has accelerated the trend toward part-time farming. This cutback is the result of policy, by which the national government aimed to reduce the gap between the increasing production and decreasing consumption of rice. This policy caused a great damage to farmers who had been concentrating on rice farming. Much efforts to put other crops was made, but they did not easily succeed, because rice farmers lacked experience in growing other crops and also there were no other crops more profitable and less labor-intensive than rice.

　Kobayashi, K.,1997, “Changes and Development of Rural Society in Tohoku” The Annual Reports of the Tohoku Sociological Society,26:21-43.

    In Tohoku district, the most important factor that made the rice monoculture possible in its long history is the existence of rural community composed of social networks of farm families. Furthermore, agricultural organizations were developed in various forms on these networks. But today, the increase of part-time farming is a serious problem, for maintaining rice production and farmer's cost of living. Gradually farmers put the emphasis on off-farm jobs, and then the rice crop farming is coming increasingly to a task of great difficulty. Consequently the rural community is in a crisis of breakdown.

　Kobayashi, K.,1999, Agricultural Organization and Farmer's Situation, Tokyo:Taga-shuppan.

    In this book, the author examined the history and the contemporary situation of rice crop farming and the function of agricultural organizations in the rural community in Shonai in Yamagata Pref., We constantly researched various hamlets from 1975 to 1995 and observed their change. In those hamlets, farmers formerly produced wet-rice collectively, but now product individually. This changes in rice production also changed their everyday life and their consciousness. Japanese village, Mura has greatly changed, and comes to a crisis now. However, it is necessary for farm families to hold onto their rice production, because it is the necessary condition to live in the rural community as a member.