Comparative Study of Citizen's Community Involvements ; Based on Analysis of Social Strata.

在日本，公民社区对该领域问题的参与有时水平较低，这是有问题的。工业化的发展引起了社会阶层和各个群体生活方式的变化。现在，在意识上有很多“中间”阶层，他们是在他们所居住的社区中生根发芽的。据说日本的阶层意识差别不大。尽管社会是均等化的，但本研究通过对小城市和大城市居民的比较，可以看出相当明显的阶层意识，尤其是收入的差异。另一方面，中低收入和高流动性阶层对参与社区组织和其他社区问题的动机较低。其次，社区的刻板印象影响了居民的阶层认同。在形象不发达的小城市，市民的阶层辨识度明显低于客观指标。在较大的城市，情况正好相反。然而，提高社区生活质量的公共问题并没有得到两个城市市民的认真考虑。

Citizen's Community involvements towards the issues in the area has been sometimes problematically lower level in Japan. Developing industrialisation has caused the change of social strata, way of life in every community. Now, there are full of "middle" stratum in consciousness, who are up-rooted from community they stay. It is said there is not so much different stratum consciousness in Japan.Despite of levelling society, this research in comparison between residents in a small city and a larger city indicates rather clear stratum consciousness especially by the difference of income. In the other hand, stratum of lower and middle in income and high mobility has lower motivation about participation in community organisation and other communal issues.Secondly, stereotyped image of the community has influence on resident's stratum identity. In the small city with lower developed image, stratum identification of citizen is observed more lower than objective indices. In the larger city, it indicates quite the contrary. Nevertheless, communal issues for improving quality of life in community are not so much seriously under consideration among citizen in both city.