Comparative Sociological Study on the Structure and Change in Community Population

某个社区的人口会因其自然或社会的增加/减少而增加、稳定或减少。社区成员的稳定性构成了一个有趣的比较研究课题。在本研究项目中，研究了日本和东南亚社会在稳定性/不稳定性方面的社区特征差异。社区成员的移动的特征以及社区本身被指出是东南亚社区的一般特征;而稳定性和连续性，正如预期的那样，在日本社区的传统环境中得到了证实。因此，乡村社区的传统特征不应局限于其固定性和不动性，而应根据其所处的生态、历史和社会环境，将其定位于更大的相对性尺度中。本比较研究报告以苏门答腊东岸、马来亚雪兰莪和霹雳州、南加保和内杰里·森比兰、日本红河德拉塔和越前海岸为例。

The population of a certain community would increase, stabilize, or decrease as a result of its its natural or social increase/decrease. Stability of the community members constitute an interesting subject of comparative studies. In this research project, the differences in the character of the communities in terms of stability/instability was examined among Japanese and Southeast Asian societies. Mobile character of the membership of a community as well as the community itself was pointed out as a general character of Southeast Asian communities ; while stability and continuity was confirmed, as expected, in the traditional settings of Japanese communities. Thus, the traditional character of the rural community should not be confined to its fixedness and immobility ; it should be located in the wider scale of relativity according to its ecological, historical, and social environment. A report on this comparative study was compiled dealing with the cases of the East Coast of Sumatra, Selangor & Perak in Malaya, Minangkabau & Negeri Sembilan, the Red River Delata, and Echizen Coast in Japan.