This symposium was held for further discussion on the role of the study of human development in a modern society. The major points of arguments were as follows:
(1) When a researcher expresses his opinions on the development of child rearing, the expressed opinions necessarily include some speciality of himself or of researchers as a whole. But this phenomenon is different from the one of “a specialist” in relation to parents and it takes side with the administrative order. This double standpoints make real structure of reseachers and parents.
(2) There are two types of parents. Those who are slaves of psychological informations, and those independent of psychological informations. Researchers must make efforts to know what kind of parents they are dealing with.
(3) We should be able to know the meaning of “expectation” to the study development for informations and guidance to parents, and find out the social (or parental) mechanism of expectation. Then, we would grasp the contents of mass information and the situation of mass information totally. And the position of the study of human development in the modern society would appear.
