著者

土屋 敦

出版者

日本子ども社会学会 ; 1995-

雑誌

子ども社会研究 = The Journal of child study (ISSN:13467654)

巻号頁・発行日

no.23, pp.113-131, 2017

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The purpose of this paper is to analyze the historical process of " Symposium for Saving the Rights of Children" as social movement from late 1960s to 1970s in Japan and to reveal that this movement had many characteristics of claim-making activity (Spector & Kitsuse 1977) that had impacts on contemporary society.The major findings of this paper are as follows. First, this movement was the claim-making activity that emphasize that the coverage of "Child Protection" in official must be expanded to the children who were cared inside of their families. Second, the claim-making activity had started with the problematization of "Infanticide" in early 1970s in Japan. Third, the complete survey of child care institution was conducted at the end of "Symposium for Saving the Rights of Children" and the result of it was presented as Warrants (Best 2008) of this social movement. This paper finally discusses implication of these findings for child welfare of contemporary society.