The Character of Dominance in the Modern Rural Community

From the view of the case study in the rural communities with the mixed inhabitants in the suburbs of Kanazawa City

Abstract

It is said that Mura (Hamlet) has been disorganized since 1960. But the phenomena of disorganization appear in various ways. The unbalanced development in different regions has come to be clear.
The extending of dominance is the principle of order in accordance with the unbalanced development and the disorganization of Mura (Hamlet). It is fundamentally the burocratic order as a unitary dominance of centralization. But obedience is expected to change into spontaneity. In this sense, the burocratic dominance is made possible only by the agents at the smallest unit of the structure.
But, as is obvious from the view of petition relations, the tendency to deny such a burocratic dominance has been discovered on the side of regional inhabitants. Here is a “modern” significance in dominance, and it undermines the bottom of the rural structure based upon the agency system in the postwar Japan.