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Sociological Study on Discommunalisation of Funerals

Research Project

Project/Area Number 17K04155
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Sociology
Research InstitutionSenshu University

Principal Investigator

SHIMANE Katsumi  専修大学, 人間科学部, 教授 (20235633)

Project Period (FY) 2017-04-01 – 2022-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2021)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,290,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥990,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥2,080,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥480,000)
Keywords葬送儀礼 / 脱共同体化 / 日本 / ベトナム / イエ / COVID-19 / evolutionary thanatology / 葬儀 / 死の社会学 / ライフエンディング / evolutional thanatology / 国際比較 / 東南アジア / アジア社会
Outline of Final Research Achievements

In pre-modern societies, relatives and local community members helped to conduct funerals. In this way, holding a funeral was a form of mutual help, a social exchange of duty and responsibility essential to individuals. These societies developed systems to ensure the survival of humans as social animals based on mutual trust built over long periods of time within the same community. Compared to funerals in pre-modern societies, holding a funeral in a modern society is a complicated process that requires professionals with specialized knowledge and skills. If people feel they can face mortality without support from relatives or the local community, and that they cannot necessarily expect a future return on the effort invested in community-based social relationships. In the context of modernization, the clearest changes in collective funerary behaviours include decreased funeral attendance and the above-mentioned outsourcing of funerary services.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

わが国は超少子高齢社会を経て今後超高齢多死社会へと突入する。葬送儀礼が脱共同体化し縮小していく状況を、Evolutinal Thanatology (進化論的死生観)という視点で位置付けることは斬新な発想である。また多死社会を迎える中で地域社会、親族社会という共同体から個人が離脱し、援助を受けられないということは、葬送儀礼、死後儀礼のこれまでの在り方を再考しなければならない。それは葬儀サービスのアウトソーシングという形で進行することになる。本研究は今後の日本社会のライフエンドについて新たな知見を提供する。

Report

(6 results)
  • 2021 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2020 Research-status Report
  • 2019 Research-status Report
  • 2018 Research-status Report
  • 2017 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (20 results)

All 2021 2019 2018 2017 Other

All Int'l Joint Research (1 results) Journal Article (4 results) (of which Open Access: 2 results,  Peer Reviewed: 2 results) Presentation (9 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 8 results,  Invited: 3 results) Book (2 results) Remarks (2 results) Funded Workshop (2 results)

  • [Int'l Joint Research] Vietnam Academy of Social Science(ベトナム)

    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] Attitudes toward Ie Succession in Contemporary Japan : An Analysis of the SoWIA Survey2021

    • Author(s)
      Shimane Katsumi
    • Journal Title

      The Senshu social well-being review

      Volume: 8 Pages: 33-41

    • DOI

      10.34360/00012564

    • URL

      https://senshu-u.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/12581

    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Social bonds with the dead: how funerals transformed in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries2018

    • Author(s)
      Shimane, Katsumi
    • Journal Title

      Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

      Volume: 373 Issue: 1754 Pages: 1-7

    • DOI

      10.1098/rstb.2017.0274

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] 少子化進程中葬礼的変化趨勢2018

    • Author(s)
      嶋根克己
    • Journal Title

      家族企業

      Volume: 35 Pages: 33-34

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] Cac van de ve tang le hien dai hoa: So sanh doi chieu Viet Nam va Nhat Ban2018

    • Author(s)
      Shimane, Katsumi
    • Journal Title

      Vietnam Review of Northeast Asian Studies

      Volume: 3(205) Pages: 30-40

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Presentation] Patterns of end-of-life ceremonies under the COVID-19 in Japan2021

    • Author(s)
      Katsumi Shimane
    • Organizer
      COVID-19 and Social Change
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] 姉家督による家系の継承と幸福感――アジア型ウェルビーイングと家族(3)2021

    • Author(s)
      嶋根克己
    • Organizer
      第94回日本社会学会
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Role of Higher Education for Human Resources:Comparison Japan and Vietnam2019

    • Author(s)
      Hiroshi Kaneko, Katsumi Shimane
    • Organizer
      Improving Quality of Population: Intenational Experince and Suggestions for Vietnam
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Death, Dying and Social Well-being in Society: A Comparative Study in East and Southeast Asia2018

    • Author(s)
      Shimane, Katsumi
    • Organizer
      The Fourth Conference of International Consortium for Social Well-Being Studies, Center for Social Well-Being Studies
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Outsourcing of Death Treatment under Modernization: Comparative Studies for Funeral Ceremony2018

    • Author(s)
      Shimane, Katsumi
    • Organizer
      XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Transformation of Ancestor Worship in Vietnam and Japan under Shrinking Family2018

    • Author(s)
      Shimane, Katsumi and Dang Thi Viet Phuong
    • Organizer
      The 14th APSA Conference
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Transformation of the Family and Funeral System during Modernization2018

    • Author(s)
      Katsumi Shimane
    • Organizer
      The Third Conference of International Consortium for Social Well-being Studies
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] The rights to be cared in the end-of-life and after-life; Transformation of aging and dying in Japan2017

    • Author(s)
      Katsumi Shimane
    • Organizer
      Marx 200; Karl Marx's though on distributive justice and its current relevance
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Ancestor Worship and Subjective Well-being: Cross-national Comparison between East and Southeast Asian Countries2017

    • Author(s)
      Katsumi Shimane、Kanai Masayuki
    • Organizer
      2nd Conference of International Consortium for Social Well-being Studies
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Book] Quality of Life in Japan: Contemporary Perspectives on Happiness2019

    • Author(s)
      Masayuki Kanai, Katsumi Shimane and Dang Thi Viet Phuong
    • Total Pages
      217
    • Publisher
      Sprinnger
    • ISBN
      9789811389092
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Book] Xay Dung Xa Hoi Phat Trien Ben Vung2018

    • Author(s)
      Tran Quang Minh, Ngo Huong Lan
    • Total Pages
      511
    • Publisher
      Nha Xuat Ban Dai Hop Quoc Gia Ha Noi
    • ISBN
      9786049619199
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] 専修大学研究者情報システム

    • URL

      https://kjs.acc.senshu-u.ac.jp/sshhp/KgApp?resId=S001457

    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
  • [Remarks] 専修大学研究者情報データベース

    • URL

      http://reach.acc.senshu-u.ac.jp/Nornir/search.do?type=v01&uid=1204445

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Funded Workshop] KAKENHI Seminar for Comparative Sociology2018

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Funded Workshop] KAKENHI Seminar for Comparative Sociology II2018

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report

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Published: 2017-04-28   Modified: 2023-01-30  

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