Action research on the possibility of separating birth of a child and raising a child

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26380690
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Sociology
• Research Institution: Okayama Prefectural University
• Principal Investigator: Rakugi Akiko 岡山県立大学, 保健福祉学部, 准教授 (00372871)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: アクションリサーチ / 直結規範・分離規範 / 養親・養子・産みの親 / 言説分析 / 啓発

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The vast majority of Japanese people are spellbound by the norm that a family should consist of parents and children who are connected by blood relation despite of the diversification of forms of family in our real world. This dominant norm tends to suppress people living under another norm in which the bearing and the growing children are not naturally combined. Typically, the former norm tends to isolate the latter as we see in a family that was formed by child adoption.
This study investigated what discourses were used by people under the dominant norm while what counter discourses were used by people under the minority norm in various fields of discourse. In addition, an educational attempt was made to enhance the minority norm in a college classroom.

Free Research Field

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