Estimate and Forecast of Social Forces of A Regional Society

Research Project

Project/Area Number	02301025
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Co-operative Research (A)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	社会学(含社会福祉関係)
Research Institution	Tokyo Metropolitan University
Principal Investigator	TAKAHASI Kazuhiro Tokyo Metroplitan U. Social Sciencies & Humanities Assosiate Professor, 人文学部, 助教授 (40117718)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	WATANABE Noboru J. S. P. S. EX. Fellowship, 特別研究員 (70191781) SUGAYA Yoshiko Miyagigakuinwomen's C. Liberal Arts Assosiate Professor, 人文学部, 助教授 (40162854) TERADA Ryouichi Tsuru U. Arts Assosiate Professor, 文学部, 助教授 (00163923) IKEDA Kanji Japan U. Agriculture & Veterinary Medicine Assistant Professor, 農獣医学部, 専任講師 (60144622) OONISHI Yasuo Yamayashiwomen's S J. C. Living Science Assistant Professor, 生活科学科, 専任講師 (40223896) 平岡義和金城学院大学, 短期大学部, 助教授 (40181143) 迫田耕作愛知大学, 短期大学部, 専任講師 (30211270)
Project Period (FY)	1990 – 1991
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 1991)
Budget Amount *help	¥6,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥6,500,000) Fiscal Year 1991: ¥2,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,500,000) Fiscal Year 1990: ¥4,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,000,000)
Keywords	Regional Society / Power Structure / Social Forces / Network / Self-Organizing Process / 地域 / 非組織的集合体 / 交絡効果 / 高度ネットワ-ク技法 / イシュ-リンケ-ジ化
Research Abstract	The notion that it is an age when regions or districts can be independent as economic, cultural, and political centers has been common for years. This should have been understood as the dawn of the new self organizing modernization that regions or districts promote by themselves. But in fact, this expected kind of modernization is only an imitation of that in the central, big urban cases or something useless strongly influenced by them. Why couldn't they establish and obtain their own goals under the self-modernization ? Thus it is social forces that seek for such a spontaneous development process as self-modernization. Modernization indeed, on the one hand, changed politics of power into politics of information and, on the other hand, provided infestations of the exercise of the referendum right and of superficial and colorful democracy, which are something similar to a politics with a lack of substantive debate. This is the wrong current originated from the philosophy of modern indiv … More isualism, and we should not overlook the fact that this philosophy also includes defects in its scientific methodology. Surely modernization will be generally right. But we must correct this methodological fault to pursue fruitful social forces that we are to study. Accordinglywe should focus the processes that influencial voices, opinions of a community wholly converges, not indivisually but connectedly to many kinds of combinations, considered each respectable position of them. These processes are as if a ray transmits in a condensing prism. They are the sources of fruitful social forces. Put in other words, fruitful social forces are the very basic structures which will create usual aggregated abilities of people in the executive community. Is the structure able to be self-organizing ? The structure analysis we carry out is designed for unifying both a type of power structure and a type of information structure along with the logic of a type of general structure. The analysis is to clarify what the form of the whole network consisting of friends of an influencial person in a larger meaning could be, or what the function which "the third person" had on the network was. Fortunately getting their generous comprehensions for us, we made research in Nanyo city, to collect very important data for these two years. So we executed the estimation and the forecast of fruitful social forces there, and as a result, we reach some conclusions that generally speaking, the city can be named to the "Central Around" type, and will keep this state for next some years. I hope that "The passionate citizens" which starts to grow up will become succesful. Less