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A Qualitative Study of Housowork in. Contempcrary Japanese Families : Realities, Meani and Sentiments

Research Project

Project/Area Number 12610173
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field 社会学(含社会福祉関係)
Research InstitutionAichi University of Education

Principal Investigator

YAMAME Mari  Aichi University pf"Education, Facu Hy of Education Associate Professor, 教育学部, 助教授 (20242894)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) YAMATO Reiko  Kansai University, Faculty of Sociology, Associate Professor, 社会学部, 助教授 (50240049)
FUJITA Michiyo  Otemae University, Faculty of Socio-Cultural Studies Professor, 社会文化学部, 教授 (00219023)
ONODE Setsuko  Kacho Junior College, Faculty of Home Economice Associate Professor, 生活学科, 助教授 (80269745)
Project Period (FY) 2000 – 2001
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2001)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,600,000)
Fiscal Year 2001: ¥1,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000)
Fiscal Year 2000: ¥1,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000)
Keywordshousework / gender / Social network / ネットワーク
Research Abstract

The purpose of this study is to think about the possibility that housework is shared with men and by public sector in Japanese context. For that purpose, we had already conducted a questionnaire survey in 1995 both at urban and rural areas in Hyogo prefecture and had analyzed that data. In this project, we conducted an interview survey again in Hyogo prefecture during 2000 and 2001.
This year we analyzed the interview data and gave some papers at academic conferences and wrote a report of this project And besides, we held a public seminar on the theme of "From big merchant ie in Tokugawa era to zaibatsu in modern Japan; from perspective of le-dozoku theory.
Major findings of our interview survey are as follows. 1) The reason why Japanese women do almost all housework is that there is a kind of mechanism in which women get their gender identity by doing housework, not that they have strong gender role norms; 2) One of the important contexts in which men do housework is the necessity of caring for their own parents, a cause of life stage. 3) The meanings of sphere separation in rural area are different from that in urban area. In urban area, the concept of modern occupational/domestic separation of spheres is often indicated by informants and housework is spoken as chores which are done in domestic sphere, whereas in rural area, the concept of soto-shigoto(work of outside sphere)/naka-shigoto(work of inside sphere) separation is sometimes indicated by informants. 4) The occupational labor of women does not change men's gender role orientation but changes that of women. 5) Geiider and socio-economic status effect the meanings of ublic/private spheres, which are related to the orientation of receiving care after getting aged.

Report

(3 results)
  • 2001 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 2000 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (8 results)

All Other

All Publications (8 results)

  • [Publications] Yamato, reiko: "Preferences for personal care in Japan : the Influences of gender and socioeconomic status"The International Scope R Review <http://www.internationalscope.com/jcurnals/synopsis.htm>. Vol.2,Issue4. 1-12 (2000)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 山根真理: "家族社会学の分析視角(野々山久也, 清水浩昭編著)"ミネルヴァ書房. 421 (2001)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Reiko Yamato: "Preferences for personal care in Japan : the influences of gender and socioconomic status"The Internaonal ScopeR Revi. Vol.2. 1-12 (2000)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Nari Yamare: "The Approach of Gender Studies., Hisaya Nonoyama and Hiroski Shimizu ed., Perspectives of Family Sociolgy"Minerva=shobo. 101-121 (2001)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Yamato, Reiko: "Preferences for personal care in Japan : the influences of gender and socioeconomic status"The International ScopeR Review <http://www.internationalscope.com/journals/synopsis.htm. Vol.2,Issue 4. 1-12 (2000)

    • Related Report
      2001 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 山根 真理: "家族社会学の分析視角(野々山久也・清水浩昭編著)"ミネルヴァ書房. (2001)

    • Related Report
      2001 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 大和礼子: ""社会階層と社会的ネットワーク"再考"社会学評論. 51(2). 235-250 (2000)

    • Related Report
      2000 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 山根真理: "家族問題-危機と存続(清水新二編)"ミネルヴァ書房. 340 (2000)

    • Related Report
      2000 Annual Research Report

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