Sociology of Education for "Late Youth"

Research Project

Project/Area Number	26590221
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Research Field	Sociology of education
Research Institution	Teikyo University
Principal Investigator	Otawa Naoki 帝京大学, 教育学部, 教授 (60302600)
Project Period (FY)	2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
Budget Amount *help	¥3,770,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥870,000) Fiscal Year 2016: ¥520,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥120,000) Fiscal Year 2015: ¥2,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥600,000) Fiscal Year 2014: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Keywords	若者文化 / 若者論 / 教育学 / 後期若者 / ライフワークバランス / アイデンティティ / リカレント教育 / 成人教育 / ニート
Outline of Final Research Achievements	Although diffusion of the youth period is pointed out in some sociological studies, in other words the youth period makes the border vague and spreading, the real state of such phenomena is not clarified in empirical studies. This study examine Japanese "late youth"'s sense of value and life course to examine the research question "how Japanese people 'graduate' youth (how do Japanese people become not young)?" through the internet survey. It is clarified that even in forties, the ratio of people who think he or she was not a youth completely stayed below about 40% and that there are relations between self-knowledge of youth and educational background, and between self-knowledge of youth and vocation.