Enpirical Inquiries into Discourses on Family

家庭话语的实证探究

• 批准号: 09410041
• 负责人: NAKAGAWA Nobutoshi
• 金额: $ 2.24万
• 依托单位: Toyama University
• 依托单位国家: 日本
• 项目类别: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 日本
• 起止时间: 1997 至 1999
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-09410041/
• 关键词: discourse on family; open-ended questions; trouble; living history; fatherhood; 自助グループ; 家族

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.

本研究试图通过对当代家庭话语的多角度研究，揭示当代家庭的变迁状态。不仅话语分析的方法，这是本研究的共同点，而且研究地点富山位于日本的非都市地区，使这个项目独特和翔实。同年秋天，我们在富山进行了家庭调查研究，又花了一年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实地调查，重点是改变父亲的角色。中川对为科普各种问题而成立的自助团体进行了参与观察和访谈。研究结果发表在三篇论文中。佐藤丰的《关于家庭的话语》在回答关于家庭的调查中的开放式问题时分析了开放式问题。本文利用计算机程序完成了上述调查问卷中的问题，揭示了语篇中的语言资源结构，家人中川信俊的《关于地方自助团体活动中的“问题家庭”的叙述》展示了在自助团体的实践活动中，家庭本身及其与各种问题的关系是如何在话语实践中被描述的。最后，罗伯特·斯科特·诺斯（Robert Scott North）的《作为当代日本父权背景的生活史》（Living History as a Context for Contemporary Japanese Fathership）发现，作为一种辩护手段的“生活史”支持了夫妻对性别角色和男性/女性的话语和态度。通过这一相互联系的多方法研究项目，我们相信，家庭社会学应该培育的话语分析的一部分新的沃土已经显露出来。