Paradox of ‹Mutual Help› and ‹Self-Help› in the Post-Disaster Society

Divisions of Social Awareness and Their Unintentional Results

Abstract

     The Japanese society and the global world were badly affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake. Then two and a half years already passed. Where is the Japanese society going to leave for now? In this paper, based on the result of the national survey of "the general social survey for the revival from the East Japan great earthquake" that I carried out in November, 2012 and the survey of the three prefectures of suffering, I analyzed the aspect of the divisions of the social awareness after the earthquake by areas, generations and social classes. And the result of analysis reveals that the divisions of the social awareness reproduce by themselves unintentionally.