著者

菊池 慶子

出版者

奈良女子大学

雑誌

奈良女子大学社会学論集 (ISSN:13404032)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.16, pp.145-163, 2009-03-01

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In Japan, in order to get married legally, it is necessary to resister the marriage in the wife's or husband's surname. When changing the surname upon marriage, there are people who have a feeling of resistance from an aspect of inconvenience at work or their identity. Such people do not wish to change their surname, and opt for the dual-surnames.However, they cannot receive legal protection given as a couple or a family when they use dual surnames and choose de-facto marriage. In addition, people's reaction is generally negative towards not giving the registration of a marriage even when they marry.By this research, I clarify that the practitioners of dual-surnames who have faced such legal and social restrictions have hoped for dual surnames in what process, how to over come this, held what conflict by the process, and how to behave in order to ease or to cancel the conflict. As a method, an interview was conducted to 14 people who chose dual surnames. I analyzed their narrative of what conflict arises when adopting dual surnames, and how to practise it by easing or cancelling the trouble.As a result, the following was clarified.--Uneasiness and the conflict are felt easily in being in the situation of not thought to be a married couple and a family by surrounding people though they have usual marriage consciousness.--Married couples behave in order to ease or cancel such uneasiness and conflict.--There are chiefly three points in the behavior; the marriage intention is presented to surrounding people, they do not emphasize having dual surnames, how to introduce oneself is changed according to the place and the situation.