2004 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Research on Changing Stratification System and Its Reorganization in Contemporary Japan
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14310080
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
社会学(含社会福祉関係)
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| Research Institution | Osaka University |
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Principal Investigator |
KONDO Hiroyuki Osaka Univ., Graduate School of Human Sciences, Professor, 人間科学研究科, 教授 (60135647)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
IWAI Hachiro Kyoto Univ., Graduate School of Education, Professor, 教育学研究科, 教授 (80184852)
OJIMA Humiaki Dosisha Univ., Faculty of Social Studies, Professor, 文学部, 教授 (30177224)
KATASE Kazuo Tohoku Gakuin Univ., Faculty of Liberal Arts, Professor, 教養学部, 教授 (30161061)
KANOMATA Nobuo Keio Univ., Faculty of Letters, Professor, 文学部, 教授 (30204598)
KOBAYASHI Hisataka Doshisha Univ., Faculty of Social Studies, Professor, 文学部, 教授 (30215355)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2002 – 2004
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| Keywords | social stratification / SSM Survey / life course / life history calendar / retrospective data |
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| Research Abstract |
This research project aims to prepare for the 2005 SSM survey through furthering theoretical and methodological consideration about the stratification system in contemporary Japan. For this objective, we reanalyzed the data of past five SSM surveys on the one hand, and conducted a pilot survey with a new data-gathering method on the other hand. In carrying out the former task, KONDO(2005) applied the two-stage least square method to educational attainment of young people in the SSM data, and found that it could be examined with parental income which was estimated indirectly from educational and occupational information of the middle aged people. This examination showed the possibility of the SSM data to be used in the field of economic or political studies of education other than sociology. On the other hand, we conducted a pilot survey to consider methodological improvement of the retrospective survey data like the SSM. Using the method of life history calendar, we interviewed with 449 respondents in three districts of Sendai, Osaka, and Shimane, and made the unique data-sheets consisting of their residential, educational, occupational, and familial career, whose information reached to about 4,000 columns per one person. We utilized this rich data set to improve our understanding of and approaching to the contemporary stratification process. By such an investigation, we found that both contents and strictness of survey data would differ, depending on respondents' consciousness of historical time during the interview. Further, by applying some newly developed analyses of sequential data, we confirmed that the pattern of life course was changing from standardized one to unstandardized one.
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