著者

広田 照幸

出版者

日本教育社会学会

雑誌

教育社会学研究 (ISSN:03873145)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.47, pp.76-88, 1990-10-05

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This paper surveys the historical research on modern Japan that has been conducted in Sociology of Education since 1960. Following many pioneering studies in 1960s, five kinds of research trends can be observed since 1970s. The author first reviews and assesses three major trends on teacher, aspiration and women. Then, the other two important trends are focused : elite and credentialism. Mdkoto Aso's "Kindaika to Kyoiku" (Modernization and Education) and Ikuo Amano's "Kyoiku to Senbatsu" (Education and Selection) are examined as representatives of these two trends. The author makes it clear that Aso's functional approach has a theoretical limit in light of contemporary research concerns - a limit that the institutional approach taken by Amano has been able to overcome. Amano and his group have focused on the process of institutionalization of modern educational systems. Consequently, their perspective is getting close to that of the one in the French social history. As a conclusion, the authors insists that any new approaches are required in order to grasp totally the diversity of the transition of the traditional daily-life world to a modern one, and the relation between modern educational systems and traditional ones.