General Study on Family Lifestyle in Information Oriented Society.

本研究的目的是结合社会学关于家庭变迁的研究成果，弄清在信息化社会的进程中，家庭生活方式呈现出什么样的多样性。本研究的总体假设是，在信息社会中，个人与家庭之间的关系变得多样化。然后，家庭的各种生活方式及其亚文化得到了发展。典型的家庭模式从一元化的核心家庭模式向多样化的家庭模式转变。在为期两年的研究中，我们在第一年进行了一项研究，以弄清核心家庭中存在的多样性，即由一对夫妇和他们的未婚子女构建的所谓标准家庭。具体地说，我们通过邮寄问卷的方式对1000对居住在神户的夫妇进行了调查。第二年，我们分析了它的数据。这项分析的结果写在研究项目的单独报告中。第二年，我们还进行了第二次深入研究，以弄清居住在关西地区和东京地区的非户籍婚姻家庭、单亲家庭等非标准家庭的差异。非标家庭的研究数据正在进行分析。每项研究的研究内容包括：(1)对象的生命职业；(2)由生命-时间、空间、资源、目标构成的生活方式；(3)支持系统及其应用状况；(4)与外部系统的关系；(5)信息化社会发展中的生活方式选择情况等。

It is the purpose of this study to make clear what kinds of diversities of the family lifestyles grow out in progressing of the information-oriented society, regarding the results of the sociological studies on the family changes till now. the general hypothesis of our study is that in the information-oriented society, the relations between individuals and families become diversified. Then, various lifestyles of the family and its sub-culture become developed. The typical pattern of the family changes from the uniformed model of nuclear family to the various family models. During two years study, at the first year we made a research in order to make clear the existence of diversities among the nuclear families, so called "the standard family" which is constructed by a couple and their unmarried child. Concretely speaking, We researched 1000 couples who live in kobe by mailing the questionnaire. And the second year, we analyzed its data. The results of this analysis is written on the Separate Report of Research Project. At the second year, we also made the second research as an intensive study, in order to make clear the diversities of "the nonstandard families" which are non-registered marriage family, one-parent family etc. who live in Kansai area and Tokyo area. The research data of the nonstandard families is now analyzing. The research contents of each research are (1) life career of objects, (2) lifestyle consisted of life-time, space, resources, goals, (3) support system and the state of its application, (4) relation with outer systems, (5) situation of choice of lifestyles under development of the information-oriented society so on.