著者

加藤 潤

出版者

名古屋女子大学

雑誌

名古屋女子大学紀要 人文・社会編 (ISSN:09152261)

巻号頁・発行日

no.35, pp.p41-51, 1989-03

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"This paper firstly presents a methodological survey over the series of studies on the youth as the concept historically discovered in the course of Japanese modernization. The concept of Youth or Adolescence, formaly recognized only as one of the stages of epigenetic development, recently has been re-examined in the context of historical event or social control. The analysis here is also based on such a methodological revision. Secondly for the specification of our analysis, we focus on the Modern Japanese Youth which was percieved as an ""Alien Generation"" to the preceding one. Using the data such as descriptive poll or publication dealing with the disparity between two generations, we find clear turningpoint of value structure of youg men in pararell with the change of Japanese social structure around the 1905, the year of the Japanese-Russian War was over. Our findings here are as follows. l)The society found the concept of selfness in the psychological status of youg men around the twentieth cetury. But instead of sharing the concept of identity crisis among young men, people labeled them as morally corrupted generation. 2)Such a situation can be accounted by the transition of the social goal from the nation oriented one to the private life oriented one. 3)This social situation gave rise to two types of young men, one was enthusiastic for own success and consumatory life style, and the other was gloomy in the identity diffusion and vacancy of any goal or value to commit themselves. But more detailed first hand data should be collected and examined before we come to conclusion. At the same time, we should examin how the social fact of market revolution and the extension of shooling affect the life cycle of young men and their internal status."