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Persisting Aspects of Social Institutions in Japanese Society

Research Project

Project/Area Number 08451048
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field 社会学(含社会福祉関係)
Research InstitutionJapan Women's University

Principal Investigator

SHIMPO Mitsuru  Japan Women's University Faculty of Integrated Arts and Social Sciences Professor, 人間社会学部, 教授 (60235778)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) WAZAKI Haruka  Japan Women's University Faculty of Integrated Arts and Social Sciences Professo, 人間社会学部, 教授 (40230940)
MATSUDA Sonoko  Shukutoku University College of Sociology Professor, 社会学部, 教授 (30100986)
Project Period (FY) 1996 – 1998
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 1998)
Budget Amount *help
¥5,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥5,800,000)
Fiscal Year 1998: ¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000)
Fiscal Year 1997: ¥2,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000)
Fiscal Year 1996: ¥2,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,800,000)
Keywordsbasic institutions / Dozoku (=federated house holds) / employment in non-agricultural sectors / evets / folklore / Ie (=household) / living-time / mechanization / 民俗 / 農村 / 農協 / イエ / ムラ / 後継者 / 農地意識
Research Abstract

The three of us approached the above theme from different theoretical perspectives.
Shimpo adopted two research methods. First, he employed systems theory to explain persisting aspects of farming communities. He postulated the open.market policy for agricultural products and reduced rice.growing policy as inputs from the environment, and mechanization and employment in non.agricultural sectors as outputs from the system. He conducted in-depth interviews to explore functional requisites of social institutions in the newly achieved social equilibrium. Secondly, he conducted three surveys of members of the Kazuno Agricultural Cooperative during the period 1996 to 1998. He collected 1,211 completed forms, which will be analyzed in the coming years.
Metsudn dividcd the subjocts' lifa-hours into three cotegories in terms of humanactivities : biological activities, production activities and consumption activities. She made use of data from the 1950s, and more recently produced data from the 1980s pertaining to two fnrming communities. Comparing these two sets of data. she found that changes in production activities affect both biological and consumption activities. Through her contribution to the project, the changes have been established in quantitative torms.
Wazaki focused on two key concepts folklore and popular events. The former represents persisting aspects and the latter, changing aspects. lIe examined the case of Daimonji, a traditional rite of ancestor worship in Kyoto. This rite has been carried out by a specific socinl group fnr several centuries. Recently, numerous formal organizations and informn&l groups have developed their own octivities in relation to this rite. As a consequence, the rite hns become en established festival in ICyoto.
Using these cinta, we are attempting to develop a more general theory which is capable of explnining persisting aspects of socini institutions in Japiinese society.

Report

(4 results)
  • 1998 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 1997 Annual Research Report
  • 1996 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (6 results)

All Other

All Publications (6 results)

  • [Publications] 新保 満: "「成員の意識と家および家族の変容」" 農村生活研究. 42 : 4. 10-15 (1998)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1998 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 新保 満: "「村落社会における基礎集団の存続形態」" 村落社会研究. 10(刊行準備中). (1993)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1998 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Shimpo, Mituru: ""Transformation of Ie and Family"" Journal of the Rural Life Society of Japan. 42 : 4. 10-15 (1998)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1998 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Shimpo, Mituru: ""Persistence of Social Institution in a Japanese Farming Community"" Journal of Rural Studies. 10 (in press). (1999)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1998 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 新保 満: "「成員の意識と家および家族の変容」" 『農村生活研究』. 42:4. 10-15 (1998)

    • Related Report
      1998 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 新保 満: "「村落社会における基礎集団の存続形態」" 『村落社会研究』. 10(刊行準備中). (1993)

    • Related Report
      1998 Annual Research Report

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