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Research on a Couple's Network System in Urban Society

Research Project

Project/Area Number 10410049
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 InstitutionKyushu Institute of Design

Principal Investigator

YASUKOCHI Keiko  Kyushu Institute of Technology, Faculty of Computer Sciences and Systems Engineering, Associate Professor, 情報工学部, 助教授 (10195696)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) ASAKAWA Tatsuto  Tokai University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Lecturer, 健康科学部, 講師 (40270665)
MORIOKA Kiyoshi  Tokyo Metropolitan University, Faculty of Arts, Professor, 人文学部, 教授 (50125358)
NAKAO keiko  Tokyo Metropolitan University, Faculty of Arts, Associate professor, 人文学部, 助教授 (10274995)
TAKAGI Koichi  Aikoku-Gakuen University, Faculty of Human Culture,Associate professor, 人間文化学部, 助教授 (90295931)
KUBOTA Shigeru  Tokushima University, Faculty of General Sciences, Lecturer, 総合科学部, 講師 (20294663)
安藤 究  鹿児島経済大学, 社会学部, 講師 (80269133)
Project Period (FY) 1998 – 1999
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 1999)
Budget Amount *help
¥8,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥8,200,000)
Fiscal Year 1999: ¥3,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000)
Fiscal Year 1998: ¥4,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,800,000)
Keywordsurbanism / personal network / social network / friend network / kin network / support network / 女性の就業 / 夫婦の役割分担
Research Abstract

The aim of this research is to clarify how degrees of urbanism affect a couple's individual network system and how a wife's employment interrelates with the couple's network system and urbanism.
1. With these aims of research, we conducted a survey at the end of academic year 1998 (March, 1999) in Fukuoka City, Okayama city and Tokushima City, mailing a questionnaire to 700 samples in each place. Whether a wife has a job or not, what a couple's individual network system is like and how the household duties are shared between the couple are asked in the questionnaire. The subject was all female ranging between 30 to 49 years old. 851 answers (40.5%) were collected, of which 835 (39.8%) were effective.
2. In the academic year 1999, we analyzed the data. The major findings from the analysis, whose details are described in 'A Report on Research Results', are; (1)the lower the degree of urbanism is, the bigger the number of mothers with full-time employment is. The ratio was 10.4% for Fukuoka, 16.4% for Okayama and 23.4% for Tokushima and the difference was significant. (2)the factors enabling the mothers in Tokushima to work full-time are there is less social movement and they have their own kin living in less than 30 minutes' travel. (There was no significant difference in the corresponding number of husbands' kin living nearby.) The high rate of mothers who have a profession or who work for public offices should be also included. (3)more mothers turned out to be employed whose own mothers had work when they entered an elementary school. (4)women's desire to work or not, is not consistent, and their desire to work (or not) after marriage is subject be regulated by the modes of their husbands' work.

Report

(3 results)
  • 1999 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 1998 Annual Research Report

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Published: 1998-04-01   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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