1987 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Sociological Study on Cyclic Changes in Family Formation
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61510096
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
社会学(含社会福祉関係)
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| Research Institution | SEITKU GAKUEN COLLEGE |
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Principal Investigator |
KIMIYA Takao SEITKU GAKUEN COLLEGE・ Assistant Professor, 文学科, 助教授 (50167483)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1986 – 1987
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| Keywords | family life-cycle / family forms / life-course family manbership / ライフサイクル / ライフコース |
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| Research Abstract |
Two objectives of the reseach are:1) to present the traditional life cycie ob a family in Japan and to reconstruct a model of the typical family cycle(average lif span,age at marriage, number of children,birth intervals,age at deeath).The reserch was carried out by using the Book of Invistigation of Belifs.
A model of a family cycle was drawn based on the analysis of the research results.A systematic change in the nuclear family occurred in the following phases:1) the life of the husband and wife as a couple last me to two years,2) the fast chile was born in the third year of marrige and the life of the parents with children continued for 26 years,3) the husband and wife resumed their life as a couple When the last child left home.
The branch family begins When the first son brings his Wife into the family.They live With his parents,brothers for the first six yeaes,2) The transfer of the headship of a family occurs in the seven year of the oidest childs marriage,then he becomes the dead of the family,3)By the seven year of the oldest childs marriage his brothers leo-ve the family,Then second qeneration live alone With their childern,4)Sulrequently after within a year his father dies5)In the sixteenth year of their marrige,their oldest son,in turn mories and anothr branch repeats the pattern.
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