A Sociological Study on Norm Consciousness

Research Project

Project/Area Number	11610188
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	KYUSHU UNIVERSITY
Principal Investigator	TOMOEDA Toshio Faculty of Human-Environment Studies, KYUSHU UNIVERSITY, Professor, 大学院・人間環境学研究院, 教授 (30126130)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	SUZUKI Yuzuru Faculty of Human-Environment Studies, KYUSHU UNIVERSITY, Professor, 大学院・人間環境学研究院, 教授 (40281753)
Project Period (FY)	1999 – 2000
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2000)
Budget Amount *help	¥3,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,100,000) Fiscal Year 2000: ¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000) Fiscal Year 1999: ¥2,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,100,000)
Keywords	gender norm / seniority norm / informed consent / socal change / quantitative data / インフォームド・コンセント / 年功序列規範 / 意識調査 / 社会秩序
Research Abstract	The main objective of this research project is to elucidate the process of change of norms in postwar Japanese society. In 2000, the first year of this research project, we carried out social research with a qustionnaire in order to investigate life style, norm consciousness and value orientation in Japanese people. In this social research, we paid attention to the three core norms in Japanese society ; (1)gender norms, (2)seniority norms, (3)norms about medical care(especially people's attitude to informed consent). In 2001, the second year of this research project, we did various statistical analyses of collected data. In this analyzing process of collected data, the principal methods we adopted are multiregreession analysis and logisitic regression analysis. As a result, we acquired the following four findings. (1)With regard to gender norms, we found increasing tendency of a negative view about sexual division of labor. Nevertheless, at the same time we found the mechanism which hinders men from doing houseworks. (2)With regard to seniority norms, on the consciousness level, most people are inclined to prfer merit system(in order words, achievement principle) to seniority system. But, in fact, in workplaces both merit system and seniority system are adopted. (3)With regard to norms about medical care, we found a gap between medical professionals and non medical professionals. Furthermore, we also found a difference of opinion between medical doctors and nurses. (4)Through three findings, we concluded that norm consciousness of Japanese people has slowly changed.