FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS AND THE WAY OF CALLING EACH OTHER

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  • 家族称呼からみた家族関係

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This aims to grasp one phase of psychological characteristics of Japanese family life by studying how their members call each other. Six hundred pupils of the fifth year grade of elementary schools were interviewed individually, and the names by which their family members (about 3,500) call each other were recorded. The subjects had been sampled from four districts: residential, commercial, industrial, and agricultural.<Br>The data were first studied as a whole. Then a comparative study was made between the four groups.<BR>General result is that the family relationships in our country are now in the process of a changefrom the old feudalistic system to a modern oneand, therefore, the ways of addressing each otherare in a state of transitional confusion.<BR>We find that standard ways of calling each other do not exist as frequently as we anticipated. Specific ways of addressing to the elders and superiors indicating respect are also decreasing in number. This tendency is particularly noticeable in commercial and industrial areas. In agricultural and residential districts, however, standard ways of calling tend to be preserved, due to the feudalistic tendency that still prevails in the former and to educationalconsiderations in the latter. Vagueness in the way of calling etween husband and wife has also proved to be one of the characteristics of relationships in Japanese families.

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