Comparative Sociological Study on the Structure and Change in Community Population

某一社区的人口会因其自然的或社会的增减而增加、稳定或减少。社区成员的稳定性构成了一个有趣的比较研究课题。在本研究项目中，研究了日本和东南亚社会在稳定/不稳定方面的社区特征差异。社区成员的流动性以及社区本身的流动性被认为是东南亚社区的一个普遍特征；而在日本社区的传统环境中，正如预期的那样，稳定性和连续性得到了证实。因此，农村社区的传统特征不应局限于其固定性和不动性；根据其生态环境、历史环境和社会环境，应将其置于更为广阔的相对尺度中。以苏门答腊岛东海岸、马来亚的雪兰莪州和霹雳州、米南卡保州和森美兰州、红河三角洲和日本的越前海岸为例，编写了一份比较研究报告。

The population of a certain community would increase, stabilize, or decrease as a result of its its natural or social increase/decrease. Stability of the community members constitute an interesting subject of comparative studies. In this research project, the differences in the character of the communities in terms of stability/instability was examined among Japanese and Southeast Asian societies. Mobile character of the membership of a community as well as the community itself was pointed out as a general character of Southeast Asian communities ; while stability and continuity was confirmed, as expected, in the traditional settings of Japanese communities. Thus, the traditional character of the rural community should not be confined to its fixedness and immobility ; it should be located in the wider scale of relativity according to its ecological, historical, and social environment. A report on this comparative study was compiled dealing with the cases of the East Coast of Sumatra, Selangor & Perak in Malaya, Minangkabau & Negeri Sembilan, the Red River Delata, and Echizen Coast in Japan.