2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Social Analysis on the structure of reproduction in Japanese Colonia, Brazil
| Project/Area Number |
20402040
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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 | 海外学術 |
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| Research Field |
Sociology
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| Research Institution | Toyo University |
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Principal Investigator |
KINO Yoko 東洋大学, 社会学部, 教授 (40246781)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2008 – 2011
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| Keywords | エスニック・アイデンティティ / 文化的再生産 / 文化資本 / 社会分析 / ブラジル日系社会 |
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| Research Abstract |
This survey tried to revealed the structure of cultural reproduction in Japanese Colonia, Brazil through interviews and questionnaires. In Brazilian society, Japanese Brazilian could take an advantage of the opportunity of higher education to be urban middle class. This study analyzed the cultural reproduction of the Nikkei by focusing educational capital, linguistic capital, physical capital for the Performing Arts.
For Educational capital, the deprivation of educational opportunities had been obvious among the first generations. Their Longing for education had been the power to their children to be learned in the higher educational institutions. For linguistic capital, whereas the traditional Japanese education tends to decline, a new interest in Japanese language is increasing as international expansion of Cool Japan. As the reproduction of physical culture, it is not easy to inheritance to the next generation(although some exceptions exist) in the mainland Japan, but in Okinawa the positive successors are observed. Represented by Cool Japan, new Japanese culture to be acquired through the manga and anime has generation gap significantly but Okinawan culture there is the continuity beyond the generations.
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