An Empirical Study on Groups and Neighborhood in a Village Life

Research Project

Project/Area Number	62510084
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	社会学(含社会福祉関係)
Research Institution	AKITA UNIVERSITY
Principal Investigator	MATSUOKA Masanori College of Education, Akita Univ. Associate Professor, 教育学部, 助教授 (70111242)
Project Period (FY)	1987 – 1989
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 1989)
Budget Amount *help	¥2,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000) Fiscal Year 1989: ¥300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000) Fiscal Year 1988: ¥400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000) Fiscal Year 1987: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000)
Keywords	Social Relations / Neighborhood Ties / "Kinringumi" / Group / Self-Governing Activities / Kin Associations / Mutual-Aid / 村落内諸集団 / 現代村落 / 村落生活 / 家連合 / 集団構成
Research Abstract	In this study, I analyzed the social relations of villages each other in current Japan. The villages carry out these social relations in order to pursue their daily lives and production. The focus of my analysis is on understanding the structure between the phase of the needs, the particular social relation fills and the person with whom the relation held. The fields for this study are Takayanagi, Fukui Prefecture(Sakaimachi) and Tabayashi, Miyagi Prefecture (Marumorimachi). In Takayanagi, the ties of both kin and local associations are rather weak ; whereas the neighborhood ties make up the main mutual-aid relations. Most of the associations there also have their basis on the neighborhood ties. On the contrary, in Tabayashi, the neighborhood ties operate in the phase of personal life. However, they are not so strong, and the village as a whole carries out the autonomous self- governing activities, and the village council establishes the arrangement of villager's daily life. In both villages, since the agricultural production alone is not enough for supporting their livings, the importance of social relations around agricultural production becomes low. The importance of social relations around daily life becomes increasing through being based on the neighborhood ties.