米国中西部のホームタウンにおける退職アナウンスメントと地域生活

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Contrary to face-to-face acquaintanceship in small towns and to anonymity in megalopolises, middle-sized towns have their own ways of knowing about others in the same town or area. Sharing personal information with other community members is one of the sustaining forces of hometowns. I deal with retirement announcements, which appear in a daily newspaper published in River front. Wisconsin where I conducted long-term fieldwork, as one way of such sharing. All retirement announcements are from the newspaper's "Community Accent" section from December 1984 to October 1985. Six of the announcements are women's and thirty-four are men's. I analyze their features to delineate the meaning of sharing work experiences in the context of a local community life. Although the announcements are exclusively used by persons who retired from public agencies and organizations as well as from major working places in the community such as paper mill company. I argue that they have the role of delivering a message of the virtue of long-term hard work in the local community. This attitude is subtly encouraged in the culture where mainstreamers are encouraged to move upward.
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