Formation and Change of the Life-Structure Studies in the 1910s-1930s

本课题的目的是阐明1910 - 1930年代生命结构研究的特点和存在的问题。1.对大原社会研究所生活结构的考察，可以说是对现代工人阶级生活变迁过程的分析。它强调工人阶级有自己的主体和对社会结构的批判性判断，并试图将这一观点引入其理论框架。问题在于没有找到分析宏观层面与微观层面现象之间中介的方法。2.这一时期虽然对社会工作的性质进行了热烈的讨论，但对社会工作实践的影响并不大，社会工作实践中的家长主义占主导地位。在以贫困为主要对象的社会工作中，没有充分认识到生活结构概念的必要性。3.大原三郎是一位杰出的经理人，他将自己的纺织公司发展成一家大公司，并建立了一些博物馆和社会科学研究所，旨在克服社会问题。要理解他的思想，我们必须追溯到大地主之一的奥哈拉斯的管理方法。总之，大原一家的行为风格具有儒家理性主义的特征，大原实三郎继承了儒家理性主义。

The purpose of this project is to clarify the characteristics and the problems of the life-structure studies in the 1910s - 1930s., focusing on Ohara Institute for Social Research founded by Ohara Magosaburo.1.Investigation about the life-structure in Ohara Institute for Social Research can be recognized as the change - process - analysis of the modern working class life. It emphasized that the working class has its own subject and critical judgement against social structure, trying to introduce this view to its theoretical framework. The problem is that it failed to find the method to analyze the intermediary between macro level and micro level phenomena.2.Although lively discussion about the nature of social work was held in this period, it had little influence over social work practice, in which paternalism was predominant. On the assumption that the main subject of social work is poverty, the necessity of the life-structure concept was not fully recognized.3.Ohara Magosaburo is distinguished as a manager who brought his spinning company to a big one and founded some museums and institutes of social science which aimed to overcome social problems. To understand his thought, we must trace back to the management method of the Oharas, one of the large landowners. In conclusion, the Oharas' behavioral style is characterized by Confucian rationalism, which Ohara Magosaburo inherited.