著者

山岸 明子

出版者

順天堂大学

雑誌

順天堂大学スポーツ健康科学研究 (ISSN:13430327)

巻号頁・発行日

no.11, pp.37-48, 2007-03

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The purpose of this study was to examine the condition of solidarity in childhood by analyzing typical examples where children either could form solidarity or couldn't. We analyzed two contrasting novels describing boys' solidarity, William Golding's ``Lord of the flies'' and Kenzaburo Oe's ``Nip the buds, shoot the kids''. Results showed that the following six conditions had effects on forming solidarity; as to tasks which boys worked on, 1) cognitive adequacy of tasks, 2) degree of task sharing, 3) clarity of results, 4) degree of necessity for cooperation, and as to boys' endowments, 5) ego maturity of group members, especially their leader, and 6) experience of independence and strength of orientation toward it. It was also considered how adults can support them to form solidarity in difficult conditions.