A Comparative Study of Welfare Community --The Social Research in the UTARI Community--

本研究主要探讨阿伊努人与瓦金人(即非阿伊努人)之间的族群和族群问题，尤其是与共生有关的族群问题。在古代乃至今天，这一民族关系中都存在着重大的社会问题。明治维新以来，北海道经过一百多年的积极开垦，北海道地区发生了翻天覆地的变化。如今，它已经变成了改革的家园，除了凉爽的气候外，它的整个社会仍然存在着偏见和歧视的社会问题。这些现象主要可以解释为在政治和经济上处于优势地位的WAJIN人压迫和剥削另一个少数民族(即UTARI，即爱奴日本人)的社会事实的结果。通过So…的历史动态，后者逐渐被降级为劣势涉及到更多的社会互动。当然，现在情况不同了。特别是，在战后民主化和经济增长的影响下，UTARI以及整个社会制度中的集体代表制发生了变化。因此，阿伊努人现在与一种不同的、更高层次的原则和法律联系在一起，这些原则和法律在社会中工作，而不是在自然界中工作。如今，为了提高阿伊努人的生活质量，需要采取积极的行动，以实现阿伊努人福利共同体的更高成就。本研究采用的方法是从历史的角度进行综合系统分析。通过社会调查。通过访谈、问卷调查、统计数据处理、多元分析、文献分析、参与者观察等方法，对阿伊努族的社会制度、宗教、文化、职业、社区生活、礼仪等方面的实际情况进行了阐述。我们于1998年研究了北海道爱奴协会的白井分会和居住在白井镇的和津人，并于1999年研究了孟贝苏分会。此后，我们将更深入地进行关于阿伊努人种族的综合系统分析。较少

This research focuses on the ethnicity and ethnic groups' problems between the Ainu people and the WAJIN (namely non-Ainu Japanese) , especially connected with symbiosis. Old times and even the present day, there were the important social probems in this ethnic groups' relationship. Caused by the positive reclamation of Hokkaido over one hundred years since the Meiji Restoration, the district of Hokkaido has changed as if it were another land. Nowadays, it has become reformed as well as the home land aside from the cool climate.However, there are still existent social problems with regard to prejudice and discrimination in its whole society of Hokkaido. These phenomena can be primarily construed as a result of the social fact that the WAJIN who was politically and economically in the superior position oppressed and exploited another ethnic minority (i. e., the UTARI, namely Ainu Japanese) . The latter was gradually relegated to an inferior position through the historical dynamics of so … More cial interactions involved.Certainly, things are different now. Especially, through the impact of postwar democratization and economic growth, the collective representations in the UTARI as well as those in the overall social system changed. Thus the Ainu people have now been associated with a different, higher order of principles and laws seen at work in society as against those at work in nature. Now these days the affirmative actions are required for improvement of the quality of life which aims at superior attainment of the welfare community of the Ainu people.The method employed in this research is synthetic system analysis conducted by the historical perspective. Through the social research. we wished to explain actual conditions of the Ainu ethnic group's social system, religion, culture, occupation, community life, amenity and so on.We conducted a comparative approach by means of the interview, questionnaire, statistical data processing, multivariate analysis, document analysis, and participant observation. We researched the Shiraoi Branch in the Ainu Association of Hokkaido and the WAJIN inhabited in the Shiraoi Town in 1998, and the Monbetsu Branch in 1999. Hereafter, we will proceed deeper with the synthetic syetem analysis concerning with ethnicity of the Ainu people. Less