Research on poverty from the viewpoint of life-span development

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25590128
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Sociology
• Research Institution: Takasaki University of Health and Welfare
• Principal Investigator: MIYAUCHI Hiroshi 高崎健康福祉大学, 人間発達学部, 准教授 (30337084)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): MATSUMIYA Ashita 愛理県立大学, 教育福祉学部, 准教授 (10322778) ; SHINDOU Kei 群馬大学, 教育学部, 准教授 (80455047) ; ISHIOKA Tomonori 北海道大学, 教育学研究科, 准教授 (10515472) ; UCHIKOSHI Masayuki 特定非営利活動法人社会理論・動態研究所, 研究員 (30601801)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 貧困 / 生涯発達 / フィールドワーク / 若者 / 公営住宅 / 学校 / クリティーク

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Through the survey and the ethnography study of the populations who are trapped under the poor living conditions in Fukushima, Aichi, and Okinawa, and critical reviews on literatures regarding poverty in Japan, this project raised a different picture of modes and forms of poverty. Most of the previous studies concentrates on moral aspects of the dispossessed, which might be reflected a conventional doxa maintained by the scholars. This project found a different way of which scientists need to conduct their research with reflexivity carefully to rupture common knowledge tied with moral discourse. It is elucidated that the studies on poverty need to capture the embedded ways of impoverished conditions appeared in living context of the dispossessed．

Free Research Field

社会学，臨床心理学