The Social History of the Media and Music in Modern Japan: The Aspect of "Immaturity"

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26870168
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Sociology; Art at large
• Research Institution: Nippon Sport Science University (2017); The University of Tokyo (2014-2016)
• Principal Investigator: SHUTO Yoshiki 日本体育大学, 体育学部, 准教授 (80725226)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 文化社会学 / 芸術諸学 / メディア / 大衆文化 / ポピュラー音楽 / 家庭 / 子ども文化

Outline of Final Research Achievements

I focus on the production of a national self-image based on the value of "immaturity," and in which media technology and the modern family are linked together. The historical origins of this structural relationship between media technology and the modern family originates in social changes in modern Japan of around the 1920s. This period was when the Japanese modern family first appeared, becoming the main players in Japan’s burgeoning consumer society, and setting the direction for how the new media technology would be socially received.

Free Research Field

社会学