高学歴社会の病理-社会病理学から脱社会病理学へ-
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概要
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In Japan the increasing number of graduates from institutions of higher education has reached the extent that some of them are assigned, together with those who hold no bachelor's degree, to the social ladder, by which they may ascend at a slow rate to a lower position of management, but not to a higher position, within an industrial organization. What is known in Japanese as "no use of school career" for the attainment of status seems to produce a feeling of frustration among the young and seems to make way for the movement against the discriminating two-channel system for social mobility. The situation is serious enough to be diagnosed as "a social disease" and its causes and effects on the social system need to be explored in the light of social pathology. Generally speaking, it is recognized in our society today that position should be achieved by any individual through his intellectual ability, no matter to which social class he or his father belongs. This liberal principle requires the equality of opportunity as its basis. For its security, however, equal opportunity demands further the reduction of socio-economic differences among all men. In education this indicates a transition from equality of opportunity to the equality of educational achievement. Thus liberal ethics proceeds toward socialistic one. The liberal system is sustained through the state power, from which we desire to be free; and it is justified by the anti-liberal institution of levelling the inequal results of free competition through the power. In this manner, society contains the self-contradictory principles of liberty, equality, and power. If the social disease derives from the very structure of society, and remedies for it are to be sought in its transformation, isn't it beyond the perspective of social pathologists who work within the social system of the status quo? We seek change not only in our society but also or our society itself.
- 1975-10-05