2018 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Elucidation of factors that enable continuity of rural stem families: preservation and use of longitudinal research
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16K04081
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Sociology
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| Research Institution | Yamanashi Prefectural University |
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Principal Investigator |
Tsutsumi Masae 山梨県立大学, 国際政策学部, 名誉教授 (50105970)
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| Research Collaborator |
Otomo Yukiko 十文字学園女子大学, 教授
Tsutsumi Tomoaki 筑波大学, 助教
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| Project Period (FY) |
2016-04-01 – 2019-03-31
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| Keywords | 農村家族 / 持続と変動 / 長期反復調査 / 直系制家族 / 世代継承 / 生活分離 / 家族変動 / 家系図 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The study identified generational succession from life records and elucidated factors for continuity of stem families based on longitudinal research documents over the past 50 years. Namely, (1) existing documents for the same household were electronically preserved into usable format, (2) changes and succession of household composition were identified from the family trees, and generational succession.
From 1996 to 2018, the number of stem families was halved. Single-households and extinct families increased to 20% and multigenerational households to 40%. The strength of awareness of succession by the eldest son was found to be a factor for the continuity of stem families. For farming households, children other than the eldest son also inherited the farm due to the large land area owned. Another factor was succession of farming activities after retirement of successors working outside the farm. These results indicate a diversification in Japan’s rural stem families.
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| Free Research Field |
社会学
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
同じ地域に世代を超えて住む同一対象世帯の反復調査資料から直系家族の持続と変動のデータが得られ、今日では、得難い資料を喪失することなく整理、保存できたことは意義がある。世帯構成の50年間の変化を時系列的に家系図からわかりやすく作成したことは今後の家族研究に役立つ。
今日的課題である単独世帯の増加、農業継承問題等の背景には、直系家族の崩壊があった。消えつつある直系家族に潜む日本独特の生活様式や基層文化を再検討することによって、古くて新しい課題の解決方向が示唆され意義は大きい。この研究から新しい家族、社会変動論、ネットワーク論や農業起業論、職業としての農業キャリア形成論などの展開と発展が期待される。
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