1991 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Sociological Study of the Suburban Community
| Project/Area Number |
01450023
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
社会学(含社会福祉関係)
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| Research Institution | Hokkaido Tokai University (1990-1991)
Asahikawa Medical College (1989) |
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Principal Investigator |
SASAMORI Hideo Hokkaido Tokai University, School of International Cultural Relations, Professor, 国際文化学部, 教授 (30000540)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
SUGIOKA Naoto Hokusei Gakuen University, Faculty of Literature, Associate Professor, 文学部, 助教授 (10113573)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1989 – 1991
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| Keywords | Urbanization / Suburbanization / Urbanism / Suburban Myth |
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| Research Abstract |
The aim of the present project is to analyze the sociological aspects of the suburban communities, HANAKAWA(new)and MAKOMANAI(old).
The great expansion of suburbs started in the late nineteenth century in conjunction with new transportation technologies : the commuter train, the omnibus, and most especially, the automobile. Suburbs liave expanded rapidly in Sapporo City, especially since World War II, and by now more Sapporoans live in suburbs than in center of the city.
One thing the suburban myth and the sociological researchers agreed on was that suburbs were communities of and for young families : But now that turns out to have been a temporary situation ; many of the couples who moved their families to the suburbs in the 1960s have remained in the same homes they bought then, even though their children matured an moved away. These couples, who moved to suburbia in their thirties or forties, are now in their sixties or seventies.
The rnumbers and proportions of suburban elderly are likely to grow. But not all suburbs are aging at the same rate ; suburbs that are growing overall tend to have younger populations, while older suburbs that have stopped growing are the ones with aging populations. We have calling this "the graying of suburbia".
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