2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Muen-shakai:Individualization of the t family and Network of people sharing a graveyard
Project/Area Number |
24530659
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
Section | 一般 |
Research Field |
Sociology
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Research Institution | Toyo University |
Principal Investigator |
INOUE HARUYO 東洋大学, ライフデザイン学部, 教授 (10408974)
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Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
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Keywords | 無縁社会 / 家族の個人化 / 死者祭祀の社会化 / 葬送の家族外部化 / 墓を核とした結縁 / 桜葬墓地 / エンディングサポート / 家族機能の代替 |
Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Contemporary Japanese society moved towards the nuclear family with a high proportion of elderly and a low number of childbirths , where the concept of " ie(家) system weakened . Nuclear families weakened a function as a collective unit and the basis of Japanese society shifted from collective consciousness to individual consciousness .The changes in funerals and the rituals of graves in a society that moved its fundamental unit to the individual . In particular , I focus on the drastic changes in the rites of the deceased after the 1990s . It analyzed the dynamism from the fact-finding of the " 桜葬 " (Sakura-so)graveyard applicant which did not need a successor . It became difficult to decide " worship successor " by member of the family from the result of the investigation , and a tendency to entrust to the third party except the family was highlighted .
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Free Research Field |
社会学
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