The Total Research of the Social Structure of the Villages in Mountain Area -Seeking for a Model in an age of underpopulation and ageing

本文以2004年在岐阜县山区成立的前独立村为例进行了研究。本研究的目的是全面描述该村的生活状况。然后我们假设他们威胁要变得更糟，特别是通过合并。我们的研究方法是结构分析，即同时调查社会、经济、公共卫生、护理和社会福利三个方面的生活状况。通过研究，我们确认，通过这三个方面的勉强平衡，村庄的总体生活条件得到了维持，而这种平衡现在因合并而加速了结构变化。我们的结论是，旨在使山区村庄生活条件现代化的山区村庄发展政策几乎已经完成了它们的作用，或者说在今天使它们恶化。从这个角度出发，我们最后提出了以下四点建议：1)通过改善总体生活条件，重建每个家庭和社区的社区；2)市政府应促进居民以开发和创造山地生活价值为目标的活动；3)建立人性化规模的企业；4)保留原独立村的市政府总办事处，继续从事管理和协调当地社会的工作。

This is a case study of a former independent village, which was incorporated in 2004, in mountain area in Gifu Prefecture. The purpose of this study is to describe totally the living conditions of the village. Then we assumed that they threaten to get worse especially through the incorporation. Our research method is Structural Analysis, which means that three aspects of the living conditions, social, economic as well as public health nursing and social welfare conditions, are simultaneously investigated. As a result of the research we confirmed that the total living conditions of the village have been maintained through the barely balancing of the three aspects, and this balance is now structurally changing accelerated by the incorporation. We concluded that the development policies for the villages in mountain area, which intend to modernize the living conditions of the villages, have almost finished their role, or rather nowadays deteriorate them. From this point of view we suggested finally the following four points : 1)communalities in each family and community should be reconstructed through the improvement of the total living conditions, 2)municipal government should promote the activities of inhabitants, which aim at developing and creating the values of mountain life, 3)the human scale enterprises should be founded, and 4)the general branch offices of the municipality in each former independent village should be maintained, which are engaged continuously in managing and coordinating the local society.