Kazuo Yamaguchi

Kazuo Yamaguchi is the Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology and a faculty member of the Department of Sociology, a faculty member of the Committee on Quantitative Studies of Health, Behavioral, and Social Sciences, a faculty fellow in the Center of International Social Science Research, and a board member of the Graham School of Continuing and Liberal and Professional Studies at the University of Chicago. Since 2003, he has also been a visiting fellow during the summer at the Research Institute...See more

Kazuo Yamaguchi is the Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology and a faculty member of the Department of Sociology, a faculty member of the Committee on Quantitative Studies of Health, Behavioral, and Social Sciences, a faculty fellow in the Center of International Social Science Research, and a board member of the Graham School of Continuing and Liberal and Professional Studies at the University of Chicago. Since 2003, he has also been a visiting fellow during the summer at the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry in Japan. He was formerly Hanna Gray Professor of Sociology and the Chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago. Before becoming a professor at the University of Chicago in 1991, he taught at Columbia University and UCLA after receiving a Ph.D. in sociology in 1981 at the University of Chicago. Besides the study of Japanese society, his primary areas of research include quantitative methodology, social stratification and inequality, work andfamily, mathematical models (especially rational choice models), and drug-use progressions and their relation to life course. See less