戦後における読書行動と社会階層をめぐる試論的考察 : 格差の実態の変容/格差へのまなざしの変容

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We can see many excellent historical studies about the relation between reading behavior and social stratification in Japan before WWII. These studies succeeded in describing the differences of reading behavior between social classes by using not only quantitative data but also various qualitative data. However, we have never seen such studies that apply these viewpoints to reading behavior after WWII. My tentative study consists of two essays. First, I investigated changes of the differentials of reading rate by using several surveys which have been made continuously after WWII. In the high-growth period, the reading rates both in cities and villages rose much. On the other hand, the differentials between social classes scarcely changed during this period. Moreover, we can confirm the obvious differences of favorite genres, reading time, and expenses for books between social classes. The structure of these differences is very similar to that we had before WWII. Second, I described an outline of changes of discourses about the relation between reading behavior and social classes after WWII. I examined the articles and papers on The Science of Reading edited by the Japan Association of Reading since 1957. The articles and papers which were based on analytic framework of social stratification extremely reduced in 1970s. After the high-growth period, the discourses about reading have lost the awareness of social stratification.
2004-12-25