1999 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
The Challenge of Contemporary Communities in Japan
| Project/Area Number |
09551004
|
|---|
| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
|
| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
|---|
| Section | 展開研究 |
|---|
| Research Field |
社会学(含社会福祉関係)
|
|---|
| Research Institution | The University of Tokyo |
|---|
Principal Investigator |
YAMAMOTO Yasushi Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Univ. of Tokyo, Professor, 大学院・総合文化研究科, 教授 (60114708)
|
|---|
| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
MATSUBARA Nozomu Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, Univ. of Tokyo, Professor, 大学院・新領域創成科学研究科, 教授 (20000185)
KISHINO Hirohisa Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Univ. of Tokyo, Professor, 大学院・農学生命科学研究科, 教授 (00141987)
MARUYAMA Makoto Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Univ. of Tokyo, Professor, 大学院・総合文化研究科, 教授 (40209705)
|
|---|
| Project Period (FY) |
1997 – 1999
|
| Keywords | local community / community building / social capital / policy science / evaluation |
|---|
| Research Abstract |
Based on the theory of social capital, three field research were undertaken on :
(1) Community building in the urban residential area in Tokyo, Meguro (1997)
(2) Community activities in restoring Kobe's disastered area after the 1995 earthquake (1998)
(3) Habits of hearts of Kobe volunteers in 1995-9 (1999).
Reports of the three researches are published in three different books in Japanese from Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Univ. of Tokyo
Through our three concrete researches, we have reached the conclusion that the bases of life we owe somehow to our relation with the neighbors are being reconstructed. In sum, social capitals in the contemporary Japanese societies are challenged and undergoing structural changes, which means that new conflicts of political and cultural styles are inevitable.
|
