Methodological Problems Concerning the Description of the so-called “Buraku Sabetsu”

Abstract

The “buraku sabetsu” as a type of social discrimination has been defined as an excluded states of the “buraku” from society.
We have analysed it with regard to the every level of society, social relations, social gronps, and Japan as a total society.
Now, it is clear that the fact-finding researches of “buraku” discrimination is to find a new way of cooperation between the discriminator and the discreminatee.
In fact-finding researches of the so-called “buraku” after the second world war, we have investigated the actual conditions of the “buraku”, one of the outcast groups in Japan, after the comparative frame of description. But with the environmental amelioration of the “buraku”, we need to analyse our descriptive frame of reference against the actual conditions of their social lives.