The Need For Social Skills As Reflected On Natsume Soseki’s Botchan Novel: A Sociology Of Literature Approach

This study discusses social skills in Botchan novel by Natsume Soseki using the sociology of literature approach. The purposes of this study are to identify indicators social skills, describe how social skills are described, and why the author discusses social skills in his novel. This research is a qualitative descriptive research. There are two data used in this research, the novel by Natsume Soseki entitled Botchan as primary data and secondary data like books, online journals, thesises, articles, and internet. The results show that there are three indicators of social skills such as the ability to cope conflict, the ability to cope anger, and the ability to communicate feelings and thoughts. All three are portrayed through characters, setting of place, events, and style. The results also show that this novel are partially inspired by Natsume Soseki's experience as the author, during teaching in the middle school which is the setting for this novel, and this novel aims to show Natsume Soseki's concern about the quality of education during the Meiji era