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Traditional Industry and Community Life Structure a case of Nishijin district in Kyoto

Research Project

Project/Area Number 60450031
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Research Field 社会学(含社会福祉関係)
Research InstitutionBukkyo University

Principal Investigator

NOMURA Hiroshi  Bukkyo University Professor, 社会学部, 教授 (10066384)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) KATO Nobutaka  Bukkyo University Assciate Professor, 社会学部, 助教授 (60066412)
ARAKI Isao  Bukkyo University Assciate Professor, 社会学部, 助教授 (20097869)
YAMAGUCHI Shinji  Bukkyo University Professor, 社会学部, 教授 (60066404)
HAMAOKA Masayoshi  Bukkyo University Professor, 社会学部, 教授 (80066422)
TANIGUCHI Hiroshi  Bukkyo University Associate Professor, 社会学部, 助教授 (30086053)
Project Period (FY) 1985 – 1987
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 1987)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,800,000)
Fiscal Year 1987: ¥600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000)
Fiscal Year 1986: ¥800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000)
Fiscal Year 1985: ¥2,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,400,000)
KeywordsTraditinal Industry / Depletion / Neighboring / Local Group / Occupational Mobility / Information Behavior / Religious Behavior / コミュニティ・オーガニゼイション / 西陣機業の空洞化 / 地域生活構造 / 和装産業 / 高齢化 / 地蔵盆 / 転廃業 / 賃機と織元
Research Abstract

Nishijin,a district of traditional industry in Kyoto, is one of the biggest districts producing Japanese clothes. However, production in Nishijin has been falling. This situation has been called "Kudoka"(depletion,erosion) in Japanese. Our main theme was to study how social life in this district has been changing.
The textile trade in Nishijin, which is managed by the "Intensive Labor Home Industry" of the district, has been stimulating work specialization of the several functions of cloth production. This is the resaon why they say that that the whole town is a single factory. This social character has been sustained. It is influenced by the rural as well as the urban industrial situation. However, the "Kuboka" in Nishijin, which is often referred to as the Nishijin Community (Nishijin-Village). Some of the researchers of Nishijin described the neighborhood relations in thsis district as a "community of GIRI" (formal duty or obligation), but we do not consider it so, even if, human felations have changed a lot in Japan after World War II.
It is true that the differentiation of the social strata of textile menufacturers has proceeded and that employment of the workers is very unstable, but, according th our research, people in Nishijin continue to find a positive meaning in neighborhood life of this district.

Report

(2 results)
  • 1987 Final Research Report Summary
  • 1986 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (1 results)

All Other

All Publications (1 results)

  • [Publications] 山口信治: 佛教大学社会学研究所紀要. 第8号. (1987)

    • Related Report
      1986 Annual Research Report

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Published: 1987-03-31   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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