Abstract
Recently, increase of “Freeter” becomes a social issue and studies on “Freeter” problems or Transition from school to work point out that female youths or young people whose academic background and the home background are relatively lower, so are placed in a socially disadvantageous situation becomes a “Freeter” easily. However, there are not so many studies examining factors that influence “Freeter” selection of young people.
In this article, from the viewpoint of the relation between the “Freeter” selection and a “social network” paid attention to in recent years, I will examine whether the limited social network influences the “Freeter” selection through the questionnaire survey intended for the third grade of high-school. According to the result of this survey, network structures of students are differentiated into the “stable -- white-collar” networks and “instable -- blue-collar” ones, and relatively fewer students built into the former network select “Freeter”, and oppositely more Freeter selection occurred among the students built into “Instable and blue-collar” networks. It is quantitatively suggested that the existence of a social network into which the high school students are built greatly influenced the young people's course achievement.
