Comparative Study of Citizen's Community Involvements ; Based on Analysis of Social Strata.

Research Project

Project/Area Number	07610189
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	社会学(含社会福祉関係)
Research Institution	Fukuoka Prefectural University
Principal Investigator	BUNYA Toshiko Fukuoka Prefectural University Department of Sociology Associate Professor, 人間社会学部, 助教授 (20254641)
Project Period (FY)	1995 – 1996
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 1996)
Budget Amount *help	¥1,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000) Fiscal Year 1996: ¥1,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000) Fiscal Year 1995: ¥600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000)
Keywords	social stratum / community / stratum consciousness / stratum identification / chonai-kai / 階層 / 地域社会 / 参加 / 旧産炭地域 / 地域共同体 / 住民活動
Research Abstract	Citizen's Community involvements towards the issues in the area has been sometimes problematically lower level in Japan. Developing industrialisation has caused the change of social strata, way of life in every community. Now, there are full of "middle" stratum in consciousness, who are up-rooted from community they stay. It is said there is not so much different stratum consciousness in Japan. Despite of levelling society, this research in comparison between residents in a small city and a larger city indicates rather clear stratum consciousness especially by the difference of income. In the other hand, stratum of lower and middle in income and high mobility has lower motivation about participation in community organisation and other communal issues. Secondly, stereotyped image of the community has influence on resident's stratum identity. In the small city with lower developed image, stratum identification of citizen is observed more lower than objective indices. In the larger city, it indicates quite the contrary. Nevertheless, communal issues for improving quality of life in community are not so much seriously under consideration among citizen in both city.