現代日本の階層構造の変化と教育

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Japan changed a great deal in the early 1970's. Characteristics of contemporary social stratification and education are almost the same as those of the early 1970's. In this article, we examine three hypotheses about the trend in social stratification and education from 1955 to 1985, using national survey data on the social stratification and mobility in Japan. The first hypothesis is the trend of openness of Japanese society, especially the strong relationship between industrialization and intergenerational occupational mobility (Tominaga's hypothesis). The second hypothesis is the trend of equality of opportunity in intergenerational educational mobility (Imada's hypothesis). The third hypothesis is that Japan is meritocratic or a degree-ocracy society (Dore's hypothesis). Tominaga and Imada confirmed their hypotheses using the Yasuda Index. However, the Yasuda index is not an accurate measure of pure mobility. For this reason, they over-estimated the amount of pure mobility. We propose a modification of the Yasuda Index, and using the LP programming method, we obtained more accurate measures of the openness of society and the equality of opportunity in educational mobility. The results of our analysis show that Tominaga's hypothesis is correct for the period from 1955 to 1975, but from 1975 to 1985, the openness of Japanese society has decreased. In reference to Imada's hypothesis, our results show that the equality of opportunity in educational moblity has not been so high for the past 30 years, indicating that. Japanese society has become less equal. Finally, Dore hypothesis is clearly refuted by the results as Japanese society is becoming increasingly unequal.
日本教育社会学会の論文
1987-09-30

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直井優
大阪大学

現代日本の階層構造の変化と教育

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