Enpirical Inquiries into Discourses on Family

本研究试图通过多种方法对家庭话语进行研究，以揭示当代家庭状况的变化。不仅话语分析方法是本文研究的共同点，而且位于日本非大都市地区的研究网站富山也使该项目具有独特性和信息性。该项目于1997年开始，为期三年。那年秋天，我们在富山进行了一项关于家庭的调查研究，又花了一年的时间输入整个研究数据并进行分析。与此同时，诺斯是富山大学人文学院的访问学者，他对双收入夫妇进行了田野调查，重点是改变父亲的身份。中川对为应对各种困难而成立的自助小组进行了参与者观察和采访。研究结果以三篇论文的形式呈现。佐藤裕隆的《家庭调查中的开放式问题回答中的家庭话语》用原创的计算机程序分析了上述调查问卷中的开放式问题，揭示了家庭话语中语言资源的结构。Nakagawa Nobutoshi的《关于地方自助团体活动中的‘问题家庭’的叙述》展示了家庭本身及其与各种麻烦的关系是如何在自助团体实践活动的话语实践中被描述的。最后，罗伯特·斯科特·诺斯的《作为当代日本父权背景的生活历史》发现，作为一种辩护手段，生活历史支持了夫妻关于性别角色和男子气概/女性气质的话语和态度。通过这一相互关联的多方法研究项目，我们相信，家庭社会学应该培育的话语分析新的沃土的一部分被揭示出来。

This research project is an empirical attempt to uncover the changing state of contemporary family by studying discourses on family with multiple methods. Not only the discourse analysis approach, which is the common denominator of the researches presented here, but also the research site Toyama that locates in a non-metropolitan part of Japan makes this project unique and informative.The three-year project started in 1997. In the fall of the year, we carried out a survey research on family in Toyama, and it took another year to input the whole research data and analyze them. At the same time, North, who was a visiting scholar at Faculty of Humanities, Toyama University, did fieldwork with two-income couples, focusing on changing fatherhood. Nakagawa did participant observations and interviews with self-help groups that were formed to cope with various troubles.The result of research is presented in three papers.Sato Yutaka's "'Discourses on Family' in Responses to Open-ended Questions in a Survey on Family" analyses the open-ended questions in the survey questionnaire mentioned above with an original computer program and unveiled the structure of linguistic resource in discourses on family. Nakagawa Nobutoshi's "Narratives on 'Troubled Family' in the Activities of Local Self-help Groups" shows how family itself and its relation to various troubles is described in discursive practices in practical activities of self-help groups. Finally, Robert Scott North's "Living History as a Context for Contemporary Japanese Fatherhood" finds that "living history," which works as a sort of justification device, supports couples' discourses and attitudes on gender role and manliness/womanliness. By this mutually connected multi-method research project, we believe that a part of new fertile terrain of discourse analysis, which sociology of family should cultivate, is come into light.