This article addresses topics related to Japanese sociology of education over the past three decades. The main academic interests of Japanese sociology of education have been educational choice and socialization in secondary education, topics also discussed in Durkheim’s masterwork, L’Évolution pédagogique en France. The interests of Japanese researchers in the sociology of education were aroused because of drastic changes in the youth labor market in the mid-1990s and national curriculum reforms influenced by international educational evaluation, such as the Programme for International Student Assessment, in the 2000s. Though the number of empirical studies has increased substantially over the past two decades, this field must make efforts to develop its theoretical sophistication in order to connect to worldwide research on sociology of education.

本文讨论了过去三十年与日本教育社会学有关的主题。日本教育社会学的主要学术兴趣是中学阶段的教育选择和社会化，在涂尔干（Durkheim）的杰作《法国进化论》（L'Évolutionpédagogiqueen France）中也讨论了这些话题。。由于1990年代中期青年劳动力市场的急剧变化以及受2000年代国际学生评估计划等国际教育评估影响的国家课程改革，引起了日本研究人员对教育社会学的兴趣。尽管在过去的二十年中，实证研究的数量已大大增加，但该领域必须努力发展其理论上的先进性，以便与世界范围的教育社会学研究联系起来。