著者

奥井 亜紗子

出版者

日本農業史学会

雑誌

農業史研究 (ISSN:13475614)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.50, pp.2-13, 2016 (Released:2017-02-17)

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From the post war era to the high economic growth period, there was a mass population movement from rural areas to the cities. These migrants were believed to be the second or third son of agricultural families who were seen as subordinate members to “Ie”. However, recently some empirical studies criticized the theory on the movement of second or third son of agricultural families was an extremely simplified image. Besides, they proved that practically a certain degree of eldest sons who are seen as the successors of “Ie” migrated to urban city before WW2. Furthermore, they also found that the areas with higher education level faced more serious problem in lack of successors. This paper analyzed the process of higher educated eldest son migrated to urban city and formed Japanese modern family in urban city without being a succession of “Ie” based on the case studies in Taki Kyouyukai, a local associations of Sasayama city. According to this research, the formation of credential society in high economic growth period lowered the mental pressure of Elder sons to migrate. The reason was the shift of agricultural high school to industrial high school loosened the counterpart of Elder sons’ life course in their home town. This paper studied how all these changes in high economic growth period affect the relation between Eldest sons who had migrated to urban city and their “Ie” or the society of their hometown.