Empirical Research on Personal Networks Comparison between Cities.

城市间个人网络比较实证研究。

• 批准号: 15330102
• 负责人: MORIOKA Kiyoshi
• 金额: $ 9.34万
• 依托单位: Tokyo Metropolitan Univeraity
• 依托单位国家: 日本
• 项目类别: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 日本
• 起止时间: 2003 至 2005
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-15330102/
• 关键词: personal networks; population size; sample survey; neighborhood association; case study; number of friends; 地域間比較; 都市間比較; 地域移動; 統計的調査

This project is based on two sets of surveys. The first one was a mail survey conducted in three cities (Fukuoka, Kumamoto, and Tokushima), with the sample consisting of 9,000 randomly selected individuals, 3,000 from each city. After a pre-survey in 2003, research hypotheses were further deliberated and the questionnaire was revised for the main survey that was conducted in 2004. The primary focus of this survey was to access the determinants of individuals' personal networks. These included ecological factors (e.g., size of population and years in residence), individual attributes (e.g., sex and age), family-related variables, and socio-economic status. The analyses centered around the issues on the relationship between the population size and personal networks, an on-going debate within the discipline of urban sociology. Our survey design that employed three cities varying in population size enabled us to assess the effect of ecological factors on personal networks. Our results indicated that the larger the population size, the smaller the number of kins and neighbors were in personal networks. There was no difference among the three cities in terms of the total number of friends in networks; however, the respondents in larger cities had a greater number of friends who lived between 30 and 90 minutes from themselves, even after all other variables were controlled for.The second set of survey was carried out in 2005. This was a case study of a community in downtown Tokyo. 300 members of a neighborhood association were interviewed using a questionnaire. In addition, intensive interviews were given to the officials of the association. Through these interviews we were able to analyze how community residents' personal networks have changed as the community went through structural changes over time.

该项目基于两组调查。第一个是在三个城市（福冈、熊本和德岛）进行的邮件调查，样本由随机抽取的 9,000 人组成，每个城市 3,000 人。经过2003年的预调查，进一步审议了研究假设，并对2004年进行的主要调查的问卷进行了修订。这次调查的主要重点是了解个人人际网络的决定因素。这些包括生态因素（例如人口规模和居住年限）、个人属性（例如性别和年龄）、家庭相关变量和社会经济地位。分析围绕人口规模与个人网络之间的关系问题展开，这是城市社会学学科内持续存在的争论。我们的调查设计采用了三个人口规模不同的城市，使我们能够评估生态因素对个人网络的影响。我们的结果表明，人口规模越大，个人网络中的亲属和邻居数量就越少。三个城市的网络好友总数没有差异；然而，即使在控制了所有其他变量之后，大城市的受访者也有更多的朋友住在离自己30到90分钟路程之间的地方。第二组调查于2005年进行。这是对东京市中心一个社区的案例研究。采用问卷调查的方式对 300 名居委会成员进行了访谈。此外，还对协会负责人进行了深入采访。通过这些访谈，我们能够分析随着社区随着时间的推移经历结构性变化，社区居民的个人网络发​​生了怎样的变化。