Sociology of Education for "Late Youth"

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26590221
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Sociology of education
• Research Institution: Teikyo University
• Principal Investigator: Otawa Naoki 帝京大学, 教育学部, 教授 (60302600)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 若者文化 / 若者論 / 教育学 / 後期若者

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Although diffusion of the youth period is pointed out in some sociological studies, in other words the youth period makes the border vague and spreading, the real state of such phenomena is not clarified in empirical studies.
This study examine Japanese "late youth"'s sense of value and life course to examine the research question "how Japanese people 'graduate' youth (how do Japanese people become not young)?" through the internet survey.
It is clarified that even in forties, the ratio of people who think he or she was not a youth completely stayed below about 40% and that there are relations between self-knowledge of youth and educational background, and between self-knowledge of youth and vocation.

Free Research Field

教育社会学