The study of treated process of aged peoples in a inner city

本次调查的目的是从标签理论的角度来明确生活在内城的老年人在什么过程中被社会对待。为了这次调查，我选择了福冈县北九州市八幡东区的小仓社区作为实地考察区域。八幡市是代表日本的“钢铁之城”。位于八幡市中心的小仓社区1995年的老龄化率为22.6%。通过弄清内城、八幡区以及老年人的生活状况，我想了解当地社区是如何对待老年人的。在这个定性和定量的研究中，我发现了一些有趣的结果，关于老年人的意识类型和邻里网络（共同领土关系（tien），血缘关系（ke屯）和友谊关系（yuen））。我们发现老年人的意识有4种类型，其中一种是通过问两个问题获得的（即“你认为你是一个老人吗？”）、“当你被称为老人时，你会感到不安吗？”)，并被归类为“老老头”（roujin hitei gata），这是一种对被称为老人感到不安、拒绝接受自己成为老人的人。他们在生活满意度、生活理由等方面有积极的自我形象，并保持最好的“天”、“客”、“元”关系。此外，尽管这是一个老年人较多的工业城市，有大量的男性和女性从八幡市和北九州市来此工作，但在三种非正式人际关系中，“客屯”关系的比例远高于我的预期。特别是，这种非正式网络与那些年迈的父母关系密切，他们希望照顾住在他们附近的女儿。换句话说，在小仓社区，我们发现许多改良的大家庭，虽然它位于一个大城市。

The purpose of this inquiry was to make clear from the labelling theory perspective in what process aged people living in an inner city have been treated by the society. For this inquiry I selected as a fieldwork area Ogura community in Yahata East Distric, Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefectura. Yahata city is "the City of Iron Steel" which is representative of Japan. The aging rate of Ogura community, situated in the center of Yahata, is 22.6% in 1995. By making clear the conditions of the inner city, Yahata District and the living conditions of aged people, I wanted to find the way how the local community has treated aged people.In this qualitative and quantitative research, I could find interesting results on types of old people's consciousness and those of neighborhood networks (shared territorial bonds ("tien"), blood bonds("ketuen"), and friendship bonds ("yuen")). We find 4 types of old people's consciousness, one of which is obtained by asking two questions (i.e."Do you think you are an old man? ", "Do you feel uneasy, when you are called an old man? ") and is classified as "roujin hitei gata" that is the type of people who feel uneasy to be called an old man, refusing to approve that they become an old man. They have positive self-images on life satisfaction degree and reasons for living etc. and also keep best "tien", "ketuen", and "yuen" relationships. Moreover, even though this is an industrial city where many aged people live, a large number of men and women come from Yahata and kitakyusyu City to work in this city, "ketuen" relationships exhibited far higher rates among the three informal human relations than I prospected.Especially, such informal networks had a close relation to those old aged parents, who expect to take care of their daughters living in their neighborhood. In other words, in Ogura community we find many modified extended families, although it is situated within a large city.