IV　社会移動と住民参加意識

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　The purpose of this paper is to explore the effects of residential and occupational mobility on the attitudes toward community reconstruction. Our basic hypotheses are as follows : the specific type of mobility may be related to a particular pattern of “life-structure” of mobile individuals. A pattern of “life-structure” may play an important role in shaping the impact of mobility on the active attitudes of mobile individuals toward community reconstruction. In this sense, “life-structure” can be viewed as a kind of switch that distinguishes those who develop an active attitude towards community reconstruction from those who do not.
　In addition to these critical variables, five individual demographic attributes (such as sex, education, income) , thirteen “intervening psychological variables” (such as the wish to settle in a community, level of status aspiration, the amount of training for change), and two “intervening contextual variables” (such as mobility norms, group norms toward integrating the stranger) are included in the analysis, on the assumption that these variables condition the impact of mobility.
　As a result of the analysis-by applying HAYASHI's quantification theory-two significant axes of classifying the intercorrelations of all these variables were obtained. They were identified as follows : I. Rigidity vs. Mobility, II. Positive attitudes vs. Negative attitudes towards citizen participation. Four behavioral-attitudinal patterns were constructed with two axes crossed. For our purpose, the most significant pattern of these four is the “Rigidity-Positive attitudes” pattern. This pattern was composed of behavioral-attitudinal characteristics such as an “integrative pattern of life-structure”, a strong wish to settle in a community, a positive will to attempt a solution of community problems, an awakening of social rights and obligations as a citizen, and a active attitude towards citizen participation. Inhabitants who were born in Suita-city and have lived there and who have experienced upward mobility represent this pattern. Many of them are between 20 and 39 years old.
　If a pre-requisite for the development of an autonomous community is in the inhabitants' active attitude towards community-reconstruction, it may be concluded that such attitudes are found with the inhabitants possessing this pattern.