著者

木下 栄二

出版者

桃山学院大学

雑誌

桃山学院大学社会学論集 (ISSN:02876647)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.44, no.2, pp.193-224, 2011-03-28

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How can the research trends in Japanese family sociology of the past two decades be described from the perspectives of social research? The author tries to explore the trends, if any, by reviewing the related articles in Japanese Journal of Family Sociology and Annals of Family Studies, focusing on the data collecting methods and the objects of the analysis. This review shows that qualitative studies are on the wax and quantitative studies are, on the other hand, on the wane in number. In qualitative studies, articles using interview methods have increased remarkably. The main objects of the interview are women such as wife and mother, while new objects like care-workers and non-heterosexuals have recently emerged. In quantitative studies, articles using first hand data have decreased and those using secondary analysis have increased. The objects of the analysis are inclined to concentrate on the member of the nuclear family", especially wives and mothers. The author suggests that the research target should include men's experience in family life, so that the qualitative and quantitative studies can be more correlated, leading to leveling up the quality of the articles using quantitative approaches.