地域小集団のモノグラフ

N婦人会の場合

抄録

The group has two aspects: urbanized and less urbanized. The members'(ladies') attituds are modernly urbanizd in respect to overt, public and principled problems. But they are not so urbanized concerning covert, private and informal aspects.
As every home has more possibilities to lead an isolated life, residential voluntary grouping becomes difficult and group activities relax. The lasting human relations in the residential area become either the formal ones that are wide in connecting range but not close in connecting density, or the informal ones whose relations are narrow and close. The-iatermediate form seems to be difficult to be realized.
But if the small group activity is to be developed in those situations, it must be carried on by women who keep home while their husbands are out. Common problems concerning everyday life such as child-rearing and home management are critical as nuclei to tie them together. It is, of course, necessary that the central person exists and its leadership should not be to strong ideologically and in respect to group operating technique.