1997 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Traditional Festival in Modern City-Study on the Change of Traditional Festival in Informational Society-

Research Project

Project/Area Number	08610221
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	社会学(含社会福祉関係)
Research Institution	Kobe College
Principal Investigator	KOMATSU Hideo Kobe College, Faculty of Literature, Professor, 文学部, 教授 (90153668)
Project Period (FY)	1996 – 1997
Keywords	Traditional Festival / Subculture of City / Cultural Reproduction / Cultural Capital / Chonaikai / Habitus / Information / NPO
Research Abstract	This research project has made clear how the traditional festivals have been managed in modern city of Japan. I made a special study of the theory of cultural reproduction and subculture in sociology. According to this theory inhabitants (ujikos of shrine and members of chonaikai) learn the skills of management (habitus or le sens pratique) from various activities that they are doing in the neighborhood association. They can run a festival committee office through practicing the skills of mangement (habitus). And then I attempted to investigate Osannomiya-taisai in Yokohama and Ikuta-sai in Kobe according to the principle of participant observation. I have collected materials of these traditonal festivals and arranged them in order by means of the theory of cultural reproduction and subculture.

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