タイ東北部のムアンと郡

Japanese rural sociologists have contributed to the study of rural societies in East Asian countries on the basis of their approaches to Japanese rural society. I have also tried to study the rural society in Northeast Thailand, so called, Isan according to this tradition, namely to study it in the context of "local world". Its basic phase is equivalent to "the 4th social district", which can be extracted from the "natural village" theory of Eitaro Suzuki.