近郊地域における子供会育成会の事例研究

抄録

Supporters' Association of Children's Society, called “Kodomokai Ikuseikai”, is an inhabitants' voluntary association with the sole object of giving support to the Children's Society which is one of the youth extramural activities' organizations. Consequently, it is important to investigate the actual condition of the Supporters' Association to study the youth activities and the youth groups.
In this paper, I focused on the structural and functional relationship between the Supporters' Association and the changing community, more particulary in connection with the suburbanization. And I intended to study several types of the local groups in the suburbs and regard them as the working hypothesis of exploring the actual Supporters' Associations. I made a survey in K-town, Kagawa-prefecture, the suburbs of Takamatsu, as an example and compared the results.
Main types of the Supporters' Associations and their brief explanation are as follows:
1) “Local-people-type” has integrated structures, and is the subordinate organization of the village community structures.
2) “Mixed-type” has been changing gradually in diverse aspects of the organization by the suburbanization.
3) “Newcomer-type” is, again, divided into two types by the living house of the newcomers: “House-and-lot-type” and “Rented-house-type”. The latter type is the active organization which is governed by themselves, but the former is the passive organization and it's activities are dull.
There are two other findings:
1) The household is the primary unit of the Supporters' Association.
2) The Supporters' Association serves to integrate and coordinate the local community.