Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to bring up the theoretical hypotheses to analyze the living-structure of housewives and their role-behaviours, in relation to “the living-structure theory”, “the role theory”, “the functional analysis of family”, “the study on housewife”, and “the action theory”, and to make the report on the result of field research on housewives' living-structure and their role-behaviours.
Although this paper deals with only a part of sociological analysis on housewives, the point of my thesis is to re-examine and to define the concepts such as “house-wife”, “the living-structure”, and “the functional requisite”, which have not the clear definitions so far. I hope this paper will be one step for another advanced hypothetical work on those items.
The content of this paper is as follows :
i. Analysis on the role of housewife, ii. Analysis on the conception of “living-structure”,
iii. The relationship between the living-structure of housewives and their role behaviours.
iv. Hypothetical examination of the functional requisite of today's urban family.
As the conclusion, the following roles as selected as the highly important functional items, which are indispensable and unsubstitutable in today's urban family : “Professional Activity”, “The management of Home Economics”, “Cooking”, “Check about Health of Family”, “Interloving relationship between husband and wife” and “Nursing and Training of Children”.
