"the reflexive project of self" of the youth in late modern society : a case study in Okinawa

本研究的任务是运用英国社会学家吉登斯（A Giddens）的“自我反思工程”（The reflexive project of self）的概念，以冲绳青年为例，把握生活在近代晚期社会的青年自我认同的建构/重建过程，重点研究冲绳的地方性是如何被塑造的，以及冲绳的地方性被赋予了什么意义。本研究报告共分三章。在第一章“本研究的任务和本报告的构成”中，我对上述研究的任务进行了说明，概述了青年社会学研究的趋势，其中可能包括本研究，介绍了本报告的构成等。在第二章“吉登斯的现代性与自我认同理论”中，我根据标题，分为“什么是现代性”、“现代性的制度维度”、“现代性中的个体”、“生活政治”、“思考”五个部分，对吉登斯关于现代性及其下个体的自我认同的观点进行了考察。在第三章“冲绳青年的自我与“冲绳”的反身工程：通过访谈”中，我试图通过对冲绳青年的访谈数据的分析，积极地把握在冲绳出生、长大或在冲绳生活了相当长一段时间的自我认同的建构/重建过程，这是本研究的几部作品中的一部分。

The task of this study was to grasp the process of construction/reconstruction of self identity of the youths who lived in late modern society, utilizing the concept of "the reflexive project of self" of British sociologist A Giddens, taking up youths of Okinawa as an example, and focusing on how the locality of Okinawa was imaged and what significance it was given by them.The report of this study consists of 3 chapters. In chapter I "The task of this study and constitution of this report", I explained the task of this study such as above, surveyed the trend of studies of sociology of youth, in which this study is probably included, presenting the constitution of this report, and so on. In chapter II "A Giddens's theory on modernity and self-identity", I surveyed and examined, according to the title, Giddens's opinion on modernity and self-identity of individuals beneath it, in 5 sections, "what is modernity", "institutional dimensions of modernity", "individuals in modernity", "life politics", and "consideration". In chapter III "The ‘reflexive project of self and ‘Okinawa' for youths of Okinawa : through interviews", I tried to grasp positively the process of construction/reconstruction of self identity of the youths of Okinawa, who were born and brought up in Okinawa, or lived there for a considerable period, through analysis of the data from interviews toward them, which were brought about as some of several works of this study.