| Project/Area Number |
07610192
|
|---|
| 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 | HOKKAIDO INFORMATION UNIVERSITY |
|---|
Principal Investigator |
KATOU Kikuko HOKKAIDO INFORMATION UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION AND INFORMATION SCIENCE Assistant professor, 経営情報学部, 助教授 (20224496)
|
|---|
| Project Period (FY) |
1995 – 1997
|
| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 1997)
|
| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000)
Fiscal Year 1997: ¥300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 1996: ¥600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000)
Fiscal Year 1995: ¥900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000)
|
|---|
| Keywords | occupational career / life style / old age / coal miner / public official / housewife |
|---|
| Research Abstract |
The respondents are people who were born between 1908 and 1927. My aim was to grasp the characteristics of their life styles and social relationships which are affected by occupational careers. I would like to consider the meaning of life and careers. I also think it important to compare women's life styles with men's. I will show three points as my findings here.
(1) I focused on the theoretical problems of housewives. The housewife as one kind of life style seemed to make the mainstream in the 1970's in Japan. But our data show housewives sometimes did part-time jobs at home or outside. This was a phenomenon whereby housewives, as one kind of women's life styles, spread from the bourgeoisie before the second world war to the working class in postwar Japan. Housewives who did not have jobs are found not only in white collar families, but also in blue collar ones in our cases. This is because blue collar workers sometimes worked for high wages in big business.
(2) Men had worked for the same company for a long time or had continued the same jobs throughout their working lives. Some people continued to get together with and maintain friendly relations with colleages or co-workers after retirement. Even their housewives sometimes followed their ways.
(3) More women have key persons who help them as human resources in comparison with men. At the same time, more women have a wide circle of acquaintances. This explains a fact that more women are apt to lost their spouses and need to reorganize a social network for their new life stage.
|
