1997 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
「アメリカン・ウェイ・オブ・ライフ」の原型と変遷に関する学際的、実証的研究
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07041076
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for international Scientific Research
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | Field Research |
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| Research Field |
経済理論
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| Research Institution | International Research Center for Japanese Studies |
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Principal Investigator |
IIDA Tsuneo IRCJ.RESARCH DEPARTMENT,Prof., 研究部, 教授 (70022449)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
HIGASHIMOTO Haruo Kyoto Bunka college, Faculty of culture, Prof., 文化学科, 教授 (80218693)
YABUNO Yuzo Kyushu Univ, Faculty of law, Prof., 法学部, 教授 (10047730)
MATSUDA Takeshi Osaka University of Foreign Studies, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Prof., 外国語学部, 教授 (20093495)
YODA Hiroshi KOBE Univ, Faculty of Cross-Cultural Studies, Prof., 国際文化学部, 教授 (50093539)
KASHIOKA Tomihide IRCJ.RESARCH DEPARTMENT,Assoc.Prof., 研究部, 助教授 (40142591)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1995 – 1997
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| Keywords | American way of life / Good society / popular culture / work and leisure / mass democracy |
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| Research Abstract |
The aim of this research has been to collect and analyze data on the basic assumptions of the so-called "American Way of Life" in the latter half of the twentieth century, which, in reality, constituted the archtypical model of "good society" par excellence for practically every country in the world. While the student upheavals and a pervasive disillusion toward this model was fundamentally shaken in the sixties and seventies, we reached a basic understanding that it was the "phenotype, " not the "genotype, " of this model that gave the impression that American society has gone through fundamental changes. Accordingly, a few groups of researchers have collected materials and conducted interviews on different aspects of contemporary American society and culture (leisure activities, diplomatic relations, religion, ethnic communities, etc.) for three consecutive years. The accumulated data were mutually shared and discussed in a series of conferences. At the end of the third year, in March 1998, a three-day symposium to "wrap up" the research was held. Though the analysis of the data is still to be continued, we plan to publish the result, even tentative, in a year or so.
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