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，阐明在信息化社会的进程中，家庭生活方式会产生怎样的变化。我们研究的一般假设是，在信息化社会中，个人与家庭之间的关系变得多样化。于是，各种各样的家庭生活方式及其亚文化得以发展。家庭的典型模式由单一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，第一年的研究是为了明确核心家庭，即所谓的“标准家庭”，即由一对夫妇和他们的未婚子女组成的核心家庭中是否存在离婚问题。具体来说，我们通过邮寄问卷的方式，对科比市的1000对夫妇进行了调查。第二年，我们分析了它的数据。该分析的结果写在研究项目的单独报告中。在第二年，我们还进行了第二次研究，作为一个深入的研究，以明确“非标准家庭”，即生活在关西地区和东京地区的非登记婚姻家庭，单亲家庭等的差异。非标准家庭的研究资料正在分析中。每个研究的研究内容是（1）对象的生活生涯，（2）由生活时间、空间、资源、目标组成的生活方式，（3）支持系统及其应用状况，（4）与外部系统的关系，（5）信息化社会发展下的生活方式选择状况等。

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.