Socio-Cultural Transformation in Asian Countries : International Comparative Studies

这是一项名为“亚洲国家的社会文化转型：国际比较研究”的联合研究项目的最后报告，该项目由教育部于1999年提供国际科学研究助学金。目前，亚太地区所有社会都在经历快速而剧烈的社会文化转型，这是由于当前被称为“全球化”的现象。那些不仅直接到达城市，而且直接到达农村的变革被认为与早期的社会文化变革不同，因为它们严重扰乱了人们的生活，危及不可替代的文化遗产。人们开始呼吁采取政策措施，防止这种危险，保护文化多样性。这项研究项目试图调查亚洲各地正在发生的社会文化转型的实际情况，并开始采取相应的政策思路和措施。五名成员分别访问了泰国、马来西亚、菲律宾、越南和老挝的某些地方以及与东帝汶有关的葡萄牙，以观察和记录变化。然后，我们举办了一个小型国际研讨会，我们在会上与来自国外和日本的其他领域专家进行了讨论，介绍了我们的中期报告。这是我们用日语编写的报告和以英语进行的工作坊的成果汇编。目前所做的研究只是初步研究，计划在更大范围内进行进一步研究。我们已经收集了一些案例，人们的跨境移民正在给亚洲的村庄带来直接的变化，极大地改变了人们的态度和意识。争论的焦点是如何保护文化特性，以及整个世界的文化多样性。我们认为，如果我们要采取适当的政策措施，在更大范围内进行这种研究是刻不容缓的。

This is the final report from a joint research project carried out under the title of "Socio-Cultural Transformation in Asia Countries : International Comparative Studies" with a 1999 grant-in-aid for international scientific research provided by the Ministry of Education.Right now, all the societies in the Asia-Pacific region are experiencing rapid and acute socio-cultural transformation due to current phenomena known as "globalization". Those transformations which reach not only cities but village directly are considered to be different from earlier socio-cultural changes, because they deeply disrupt people's living and endanger irreplaceable cultural heritages. People have begun calling for policy measures to prevent such dangers and preserve cultural diversities.This research project is an attempt to investigate into the actual conditions of socio-cultural transformations taking place in various places an Asia and also the ideas and measures of corresponding policies begin adopted. Five members respectively visited certain places in Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, Vietnam and Laos, and Portugal in relation with East Timor, to observe and record transformations. Then, we held a small international workshop at which we had discussion with other area specialists invited from abroad and from Japan, presenting our interim reports. This is a collection of our reports in Japanese and outcomes of the workshop which was carried out in English.The researches done so far are pilot studies for further researched planned on a bigger scale. We have already collected cases in which people's transboarder migrations are causing direct changes to villages in Asia, drastically transforming people's attitude and consciousness. At issue is how to preserve cultural identities, and cultural diversities in the world as a whole. It is our convection that it is urgent to carry out this kind of studies on a larger scale, if we are to take appropriate policy measures.