The Differences of Urban Ways of Life: The Comparison of Period and Nations

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25780309
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Sociology
• Research Institution: Kansai University
• Principal Investigator: Akaeda Naoki 関西大学, 社会学部, 助教 (50645546)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 都市的生活様式 / パーソナル・ネットワーク / 非通念性 / 同類結合

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research obtained two findings as follow. First, this study revealed that the subcultural theory of urbanism presented by C.S. Fischer and the community liberated perspective suggested by B. Wellman are generally supported in modern Japan. These results are published in book form. Second, this research also developed the scale of urbanism. Focusing the population potential as a new urbanism scale, I compare the effect of the population potential on ways of life and the effect of conventional scales of urbanism such as the population size on ways of life. As a result, this study found that the population potential is better than conventional scales of urbanism in order to explain the differences of personality and social networks among place of residences.

Free Research Field

都市社会学