著者

清島 絵利子

出版者

福井工業高等専門学校

雑誌

福井工業高等専門学校研究紀要. 人文・社会科学 = Research reports of Fukui National Insdtitute of Technology, Fukui College. 福井工業高等専門学校 編 (ISSN:05330181)

巻号頁・発行日

no.52, pp.109-118, 2018-12

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This paper summarizes the perspective of today's young people on family and virtual presences through the reading and comprehension of "Familizing Pets," a teaching text for a modern sentence class. In contemporary Japanese society, an increasing number of people have come to regard pets as family. I surveyed and analyzed whether high school and technical college students at my former places of employment regard pets in this way, as well as whether they regard virtual presences or humanoids as family. The results showed that many people regard pets as family, but few regard humanoids as such. This is because, despite their ability to converse in human form, humanoids are programmed objects with no body temperature. However, some technical college students did regard a virtual presence as family, demonstrating that the form and definition of family has begun to vary between individuals.