In Japan recently much debades have been done about the possibility of sociology to anticipate the new society. As a true science of society, sociology should be valid to construct the new society. Sociologists must perceive the new trend from the convulsion of social reality. Therefore what is important is not so much the possibility of sociology as the possibility of society. It is a crucial task for sociologists to prescribe for the new humanistic society in which each individual can develop his potentiality freely and attain his selfrealization. Marxist sociology, as a critical sociology, must seek the way to realize true association and the really democratic social relationship.
In Japan there took place rapid economic growth since 1960. The “miracle” of sustained high growth has depeded on, not incidentally resulted in, toleration of immense industrial pollution. A large number of people have been killed directly by industrial poisoning. Kogai, all kinds of enviromental pollution, is now past the crisis point and no longer tolerable. It is important to stress that a very large part of Kogai problems are the direct result of a chosen policy which which the government adopted for capitalist accumulation and not unavoidable “byproducts” of technologial development.
The terrible effects of big business's “high growth” policies have spilled over the whole society. The economic policies for bourgeoisie increasingly destroyed the livehood of many people. The national and local “development” plans threatened the life of communities and exploited inhabitants's land, labor and lives. Also there is “pollution” and danger inside the factories where most workers spend half of their waking life. Workers are also intervened even in their private lite, and labor unions control militant members and function sometimes as effective agents of management. Workers who insist their human rights are regarded “dangerous” and “destructive” elements for productivity of enterprise.

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A. At the first part of this paper, the author would deal with the following problems ; 1. Environmental analysis and systemic analysis. 1.1. a perspective for the environmental system. 1.2. environmental analysis and social systemic analysis. 2. Systemic analysis of the life-environment. 2.1. the life-environment and the life-system. 2.2. some dimensions of the life-environment. 2.3. measurement indicators of the life-environment. 2.4. the life-environmental system. 2.5. the life-environmental assesment and social psychology on the life-environment.
B. At the last part of this paper, the author would deal with the following problems ; 3. Obstruction-analysis of the life-environment. 3.1. “Public Pollution” as the life-environmental obstruction. 3.2. the fundamental types of the life-environmental obstruction. 3.3. the formative processes of the life-environmental obstruction. 3.4. the effect-analysis of the life-environmental obstruction. 3.5. the phase-transference of the life-environmental obstruction.
C. “The life-environment” is defined, in this paper, as an environment which is referent to a particular life-system. A life-environment includes 15 dimensions as sanitation, energy, dwellings, neighboriness, labor, consumption, leasure, education, mutual aids, (social) services, security, transportation, industry, ecology, and the nature. The characteristics of these dimensions are divided and transferred into the indicators to measure the actually attained level (actual measurement indicators of the life-environment) and the indicators to measure the goal-level to attain (measurement indicators of the standard life-environment).
D. “The life-environmental obstruction” is defined as the negative structural-functional workings and their results in various degrees and forms, which are due to the structural or functional obstruction caused naturally and/or artificially (at the sociocultural level) in the life-environment ; therefore the definite and indefinite living subjects - who would be properly benefited directly or indirectly by the environment - become obstructed their benefits from the functions offerred by the life-environment at a particular situation on the various demensions.
E. In order to describe the reality of life-environmental obstruction, four patterns are set up as key-criteria.
Functional opstruction
Structural obstruction
On the small-scale
Pattern I insufficiency
III corruption
On the large-scale
II hindrance
IV destruction
F. The assesment-program of obstructive processes in the life-environment includes the following contents. 1. situation where the obstruction is generated. 2. the levels of the obstructive life-environmental system. 3. specification of dimensions in the obstructive life-environment. 4. specification of phases in the obstructive life-environment. 5. evaluation of obstruction-patterns. 6. measurement of the degree of obstruction. 7. the obstructed living subjects. 8. classification of the obstructive causes. 9. complexity of the obstructive causes. 10. the obstructor. 11. the mutual pervasive effects of obstruction in the life-environmental system. 12. the mutual pervasive effects of obstruction out of the life-environmental system. 13. attributes of obstructive conditions in the time-sequence. 14. the expediential and impedimental elements of obstruction. 15. the phase-transference of the obstructive processes.

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Since the middle of the 1970's, the environmental problems are turning their forcus from the pollution caused by industry to the pollution by public facilities such as disposal ground, driveway, railway, power plant and so on. This means the tradeoff among wants of general public are manifesting. These facilities are constructed to satisfy wants of many widespread people, but at the same time they bring about the degradation of environmental condition in the neighborhood. Then the planning and decision on the construction of these facilities imply the choice and allocation of values.
This report investigate the way to solve this environmental problem, based on the case study of policy formation process on the construction of disposal ground and driveway, and two alternatives are shown ; (1) make social system, polluter = injured, by reducing the scale of facilities, (2) pluralization of policy formation system in the case of scale up of facilities.

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