School Experience in High School and Career Differentiation at the Beginning of the 20th : A Research in Okinawa Prefecture

本研究旨在通过对冲绳县1994年升入高中的青少年的调查，了解他们在高中时的求学经历和职业意识，掌握他们的职业分化及其伴随的职业意识。研究工作由(1)统计调查、(2)访谈、(3)理论研究组成，其中(1)2001财年发放调查问卷，2002财年上半年回收回收问卷并进行初步分析。在(2)中，我采访了从(1)调查的受访者中挑选出来的年轻人，他们根据他们的学术背景和目前的职业进行了分类，其中许多知识是通过(1)调查获得的。在(3)中，通过阅读英国社会学家A·吉登斯的作品，我获得了一个新的--对我来说--分析的观点：青年作为本研究的对象，在“后现代性”时代的背景下，“自我认同”是如何构建的？在这个时代，冲绳人的身份认同在全球化推进的背景下具有怎样的意义？在本研究报告中，我主要根据(1)的结果进行了初步的分析。我在那里展示了通过研究获得的以下知识；他们有哪些自我形象？他们对自己的工作生活有什么看法？他们如何看待自己目前所处的位置？他们对‘冲绳’怎么看？从这些知识中推断出他们的“自我认同”是什么？根据性别和不同的职业，他们假设有什么不同？

This study is aimed, through the research on the youth, who entered high schools in Okinawa Prefecture in 1994, and on whose school experiences and career awareness I researched as a member of a survey project at the time when they were high school students, for grasping their career differentiation and their awareness accompanying it. The work of the study was composed of (1) statistical survey, (2) interview, and (3) theoretical studies.In (1), I distributed questionnaires in the 2001 fiscal year, and collected answered questionnaires and do the primary analysis on them in the first half of the 2002 fiscal year. In (2), I had interviews with the youth, selected from the respondents of the (1) survey, categorized on their academic background and their current occupations, which among many knowledges procured through the (1) survey. In (3), by reading works of Giddens, A., a Sociologist in UK, I acquired a new -for me- analytical point of view; how are 'self-identities' of the youth, objects of this research, constructed against the background of the age of 'late modernity'? What meanings does the locality of 'Okinawa' take in their self-identity in relation to the context of the advance of globalization in this age?In the report of this study, I wrote mainly on the result of (1), developing the primary analysis. I presented there the below knowledges obtained through the research; What self images do they have? What conceptions do they have with regards to their job life? How do they look on how they are currently situated? What do they think of 'Okinawa'? What are their 'self-identities' inferred from these knowledges? What differences do they assume by gender, and by the differentiated careers?