AGED-SUBCULTURE : THROUGH COOPERATIVE ACTION AMONG ELDERLY

本研究的目的是证明A.Rose在其1965年的论文中提出的“老年亚文化”的存在。本研究建议对A.Rose提出的“老年亚文化”概念进行重新定义，使之适应日本目前与老年人有关的社会状况。重新定义这一概念的要点有两个：一是坚持各种行动可以具有老年亚文化解决社会问题的相同功能，而不是只设置一种行动；二是从普通老年人更容易执行的行动到更难的行动，提出多个层次的行动。构成老年亚文化的行动层次可以分为三个层次：直接针对政府的行动、帮助老年人过上他们的社交生活、帮助老年人过上更舒适的私人生活。间接关联是指构成老年亚文化的因素都与这三个层次的作用存在内在联系，从而使较低层次的作用实现时更有效的因素起到促进更高层次作用的作用。目前，较高层次的作用很少见，但其他两种作用却很常见。

The purpose of this research is to certificate the existence of "the aged-subculture" hypothesized by A.Rose in his paper written in 1965. This research has proposed to re-define the concept "the aged-subculture" as has been suggested by A.Rose to make it adaptable to the present social conditions concerned with the old people in Japan. The main points of redefinition of the concept are two-fold : the first is to insist various actions may have the same functions which the aged-subculture has to resolve social problems instead of setting only one kind of action, and the second is to propose several levels in actions ranging from those which are easier to be performed by common aged people to those which are more difficult.The results of the research would be summarized as follow. The level of the actions constituting the aged-subculture might be three : a direct action directed toward the government, an assistance to the elderly so that they live their social life, and an assistance to the elderly so that they may live their private life more confortable. The first is related to the others indirectly and the last two are interrelated positively.To be related indirectly means that factors forming the aged-subculture are all inte related to these actions of three levels, so that factors which get more effective when the action of the lower level is actualized function as to bring about the higher level action.At present the action of higher level is seen rarely, but the other two quite often.