Cross-National Study of Attitudes toward the development of Science and technology and Assessments of the Global Environment

该项目的目标有两个：第一个是检测社区的社会变化、社区发展、生命阶段和老龄化与项目主题的关系。这是通过在一个社区进行小组访谈调查来实现的，该社区引入了一个技术城项目，该项目在该社区建立了技术先进的工业。第二个目标是利用一项新的日本全国调查的结果，将日本的结果与其他工业化国家现有的类似调查进行比较和对比。这涉及到一个跨国的观点，目的是在这些国家之间和国家之间找到共同和独特的因素。利用了我们开发的文化联系分析。更具体地说，为了第一个目标，进行了两次调查；第一次是在1983年，在冈山县Kibi高地社区的268名受访者中进行的，第二次是在1991年，在258名受访者中进行的相同的调查和几乎相同的问题。我们发现，在一定程度上，态度的变化，以及较高的数据信度和问题效度。我们还发现，对科学技术的态度和对全球环境的评估与社会和文化背景有关，特别是文化因素和传统价值观，而这些也与社区发展有关。第二个目标，1992年10月底/ 11月初，由专业调查机构在全国范围内对1484名20岁以上的受访者进行了调查。通过将日本的调查与其他四个工业化国家进行比较，使用文化联系分析，我们发现了国家之间和国家之间的共同和独特因素。研究方法和结果已在国际社会学研究所第30届大会（1991年8月，神户）、胡佛研究所（1992年4月，斯坦福大学）和“公众对科学和技术的理解国际研讨会”（1992年10月，由日本国家科学技术政策研究所主持）上发表。少

The project's objectives were twofold: the first was to detect how social change in a community, community development, and life stages and aging relate to the project theme. This was achieved by conducting a panel interview survey in a community where a technopolis project, which had established technologically advanced industries in the community, was introduced. The second objective, using the results of a new nationwide Japanese survey,was to compare and contrast the Japanese results with similar existing surveys in other industrialized nations. This involved a cross-national perspective and aimed to find common and unique elements between and among these nations. Cultural link analysis, which we developed, was utilized. More specifically, for the first objective, two surveys were carried out; the first in 1983 among 268 interviewees at the Kibi Highland community in Okayama Prefecture, and the second in 1991 with the same respondents and almost identical questions among 258 interv … More iewees. We found, to a certain extent, attitudinal changes, as well as high data reliability and question validity. We also found that attitudes toward science and technology and assessment of the global environment are related to social and cultural contexts, especially cultural elements and traditional values, with these also related to community development. For the second objective, a nationwide survey by a professional survey institution was conducted among 1,484 interviewees over age 20 in late Oct/early Nov, 1992. By comparing this Japanese survey with four other industrialized nations, using cultural link analysis, we found common and unique elements between and among nations. The research methods and findings have been reported at the 30th Congress of the International Institute of Sociology (Kobe, August 1991), at the Hoover Institution (Stanford University, April, 1992), and at the "International Symposium on Public Understanding of Science and Technology" (October 1992, under the auspices of the Japan National Institute of Science and Technology Policy). Less