I　問題の所在と調査概要

抄録

　With the development of urbanization, the traditional community-bonds unceasingly go on falling apart. As a result of this transfiguration of social structure, people lose the human networks and their faculty of autonomy in community life. Recently the reconstruction of community began to be promoted not only by the central government or the local administration, but also by various private organizations. However, the reconstruction of community depends fundamentally upon the attitudes of the inhabitants, who are living really in a regional society. In this study we have looked for the pre-requisites of community reconstruction through a survey of the attitude of the inhabitants in Suita city.
　The theoretical frame of reference, which we have adopted in this research, is as follows : we have made use of the term “community ethos”. This term means the active and positive attitudes of inhabitants to reconstruct the community-bonds. We have surveyed these attitudes via the consciousness of the inhabitants concerning the participation in city administration and the comfortableness of life.
　In the usual studies, the attitudes of people have been researched only with reference to demographic attributes. In comparison with this scheme we have used the concept “life-structure” as a intervening variable between the demographic attributes and the attitudes of inhabitants.
　These data were gathered through our servey in which we adopted the householder method. We analyzed the data of 828 respondents who were drawn from an area-probability-sampling.
　This survey was conducted in May, 1984. In that time, the respondents were between the ages of 20 and 65, and were living in Suita-city, Osaka. Suita-city is one of satellite cities in Osaka metropolis. It had a population of approximately 340, 000 in 1984. Suita-city experienced an abrupt increase in population from 1970 to 1981. But recently the rate of increase in population tends to slow down.