Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to understand care as communication and clarifY the reality.
Especially, the asymmetric relationship between the care-giver and the recipient is paid to attention,
and discusses care communications other aspects from a past caring theory.
Up to now, the asymmetric relationship in care has been thought to be erased. Because it has had
misgivings about that the asymmetric relationship causes paternalism, and the situation suppress the
recipient. In care, while consideration is necessary for care, the excessive consideration brings blockage
to both the care-giver and the recipient. Therefore, the construction of equal relationship has been groped
to solve the asymmetric relationship as a theory and practice.
Such recognition and the insistence are appropriate. However, when the fact by the participant
observation that conducted by the author was referred, a different facts are observed in an actual
care site. Various aspects of consideration were existed, and the asymmetric relationship makes
the communication more affluent. For instance, there are the play communications and the selftransformation
caused by face to asymmetric relationship. From the above-mentioned discussion,
this paper point out that a sociological research on care needs to understand delicately that care
communication is not only the equal model but also the some aspects of communication such as
generation, reversing, and the catastrophe appearance in care.
