Study on Unequal Development of Local Communities and Reorganization of Types of Local Communities

2021 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K02095
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 08010:Sociology-related
• Research Institution: Sapporo International University (2021); Hokkaido University (2019-2020)
• Principal Investigator: Onai Toru 札幌国際大学, 人文学部, 教授 (80177253)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-04-01 – 2022-03-31
• Keywords: 地域社会類型

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this study it was clarified that the macroscopic overall structure of the local community at this stage cannot be grasped as simply simplified in the general form of general urbanization, transition to an urban society, depopulation-overcrowding, and concentration in Tokyo. It is shown symbolically that a movement that the community types at the prefectural level shift from diversification to convergence, and that at the community type at the municipal level, local communities with a population of 10,000 or less and low-productivity service industry increase rapidly, that independence-loss areas such as ultra-fluid areas where the inflow / outflow population from / to other municipals due to commuting reaches more than twice the resident population and that the municipals where the service industry as such medical and welfare is the industrial base increase steadily.

Free Research Field

社会学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

近年、「地方創生」が重要な政策的課題になっている。その背景に、地方での人口減少、超高齢化が町村部だけでなく、都市部も含めて確実に進行していることがある。さらに、大野晃が問題提起した限界集落や日本創成会議が指摘した消滅可能性都市といった刺激的な表現が、衰退する地方への国民の関心を喚起した。地方の疲弊の対極には、東京を中心とする大都市への人、もの、金、情報の集中という現実もある。それは、地域的不均等発展の問題に他ならない。そこでは、センセーショナルな表現でなく、確実なデータに基づく深い分析を通して、地域社会のマクロな変動のあり方を検討していくことが現実的な課題に応えるために重要な意義をもつ。