1996 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
EMPIRICAL STUDY ON THE FORMATION AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE "RIGION OF MIDDLERANGE"
| Project/Area Number |
07301016
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 総合 |
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| Research Field |
社会学(含社会福祉関係)
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| Research Institution | Tohoku University |
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Principal Investigator |
HOSOYA Takashi Tohoku University, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Professor, 大学院・情報科学研究科, 教授 (10005754)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
TOKUGAWA Naoto Hokkaido University of Education, Assistant Professor, 教育学部, 助教授 (10227572)
KATO Masayosi Tohoku University, Department of Literature, Assistant, 文学部, 助手 (60261559)
NAGAI Akira Tohoku University, Department of Literature, Assistant Professor, 文学部, 助教授 (90207960)
KOBAYASHI Kazuho Tohoku University, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Assistant Professor, 大学院・情報科学研究科, 助教授 (20150253)
NAKAJIMA Nobuhiro Tohoku University, Depertment of Education, Professor, 教育学部, 教授 (80005826)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1995 – 1996
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| Keywords | region of middle range / community / local culture / type of man / urban and rural community |
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| Research Abstract |
1.In this project we carried out social researches on the "rigions of middle range" : Shonai region of Yamagata prefecture, Tokachi region and Kushiro region of Hokkaido and some rigions of Nagano prefecture and Okinawa prefecture. Main research items are natural envilonments, historical backgrounds, economic structures, conditions of traffic and communication, situations of urban and rural communities and other social and cultural traits of the regions.
2.The result of researches shows that the "region of middle range" is formed as a unity by following factors : (1) the commonness of natural environment, (2) the commonness of economic structure that is formed historically in it, (3) especially in the Main Island, the administrative policy of Han in the Tokugawa era and (4) the trafic and communication network between central cities and surrounding rural communities in the region. Tody these "regions of middle range" are changed in the high grouwth of Japanese economy, but yet have been maintaining the unity as a aregion.
3.The social and cultural characteristics which the "region of middle range" embraces are the precious resources in order to enrich the content of development of Japanese society and culture.
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