Empirical study of child care support "industry" - Quantitative and qualitative analysis by neo-institutionalism theory -

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K13199
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Sociology of education
• Research Institution: The University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: HASHIMOTO Koichi 東京大学, 大学院教育学研究科(教育学部), 教授 (40260509)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 白旗 希実子 東北公益文科大学, 公私立大学の部局等, 講師 (10735658) ; 石井 美和 東北文教大学短期大学部, その他部局等, 講師 (90713206)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): MARUYAMA Kazuaki 名古屋大学, 高等教育研究センター, 准教授 (20582886)
• Research Collaborator: KOBARU Akie 東京大学, 大学院・教育学研究科
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 子育て支援 / 業界 / 新制度派組織論

Outline of Final Research Achievements

With regard to child care support industry, we analyzed the generation mechanism, institutional logic and strategy, and the relationship of actors on jurisdiction by neo-institutionalism theory. In addition to discussions at the national level, we focused on the actual situation survey at the regional level such as urban areas in Yamagata Prefecture and so on.
We analyzed content of policy discussion, administrative documents and texts of newspaper articles and extracted issues and actors involved in child care support. We conducted a qualitative survey with semi-structured interviews on each actor and tried to examine their logic and strategy using TEM/TEA. In addition, we examined their networks from the discourse, logic and strategy of each actor.

Free Research Field

高等教育の社会学