School Experience in High School and Career Differentiation at the Beginning of the 20th : A Research in Okinawa Prefecture

本研究的目的是通过对1994年进入冲绳县高中的青少年，以及我作为一个调查项目的成员在他们高中时期的学校经历和职业意识的研究，了解他们的职业分化及其伴随的意识。本研究的工作由(1)统计调查、(2)访谈和(3)理论研究组成。在(1)中，我在2001财年发放了问卷，在2002财年上半年收集了回答的问卷并对其进行了初步分析。在(2)中，我采访了从(1)调查的受访者中挑选出来的年轻人，根据他们的学术背景和目前的职业进行了分类，这些都是通过(1)调查获得的知识之一。在(3)中，通过阅读英国社会学家吉登斯的作品，我获得了一种新的——对我来说——分析观点；作为研究对象的青年“自我认同”在“晚期现代性”的背景下是如何建构的？在这个时代全球化发展的背景下，“冲绳”的地域性在他们的自我认同中有什么意义？在本研究的报告中，我主要写了(1)的结果，进行了初步分析。我在这里介绍了通过研究获得的以下知识；他们有什么样的自我形象？他们对自己的工作生活有什么想法？他们如何看待自己目前的处境？他们怎么看“冲绳”？他们从这些知识中推断出的“自我认同”是什么？他们认为性别和不同的职业有什么不同？

This study is aimed, through the research on the youth, who entered high schools in Okinawa Prefecture in 1994, and on whose school experiences and career awareness I researched as a member of a survey project at the time when they were high school students, for grasping their career differentiation and their awareness accompanying it. The work of the study was composed of (1) statistical survey, (2) interview, and (3) theoretical studies.In (1), I distributed questionnaires in the 2001 fiscal year, and collected answered questionnaires and do the primary analysis on them in the first half of the 2002 fiscal year. In (2), I had interviews with the youth, selected from the respondents of the (1) survey, categorized on their academic background and their current occupations, which among many knowledges procured through the (1) survey. In (3), by reading works of Giddens, A., a Sociologist in UK, I acquired a new -for me- analytical point of view; how are 'self-identities' of the youth, objects of this research, constructed against the background of the age of 'late modernity'? What meanings does the locality of 'Okinawa' take in their self-identity in relation to the context of the advance of globalization in this age?In the report of this study, I wrote mainly on the result of (1), developing the primary analysis. I presented there the below knowledges obtained through the research; What self images do they have? What conceptions do they have with regards to their job life? How do they look on how they are currently situated? What do they think of 'Okinawa'? What are their 'self-identities' inferred from these knowledges? What differences do they assume by gender, and by the differentiated careers?