The purpose of this study is to examine how "definition of situation" about the moral harassment rises through the interaction. For this purpose, I conducted an interview investigation into the bereaved family of suicide by the moral harassment. Through the face to face interviews and e-mail interviews with them, I acquired the Mr. N's applications for worker's accident compensation insurance, the investigation reports about Mr. N's case by the labor standards inspection office, the record documents of Mr. N's administrative litigations and civil trials. I analyzed these contents from the view point of "frame analysis" (Goffman, E) and "vocabularies of motive" (Gerth, H. H. & Mills, C. W). This study suggests that the moral harassment is hidden by business frame, and moral harassment becoming to visible thanks to complaint lodged by bereaved family turns to be invisible because the "vocabularies of motive" of worker's suicide are constructed based on "mental disorder" frame in worker's accident compensation insurance.

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This research comprises an experimental effort to clarify the reasons people join socially pathological groups based on data obtained from semi-structured interviews of Ex-Yakuza members. Seven subjects were interviewed in Osaka to gather data about their affiliation with such groups, revealing a number of shared factors that motivated them to seek membership. This data supports three conclusions that have not been mentioned in previous studies: (1)the fact that it is not possible to categorically describe the members of these groups as being unsuited to school since no trend toward nonattendance was found, and since they recalled enjoying their time in middle school; (2)the fact that the subjects had contacts with gangs coexisting in the area precisely because their links with the local community were not weak; and (3)the fact that the subjects had a strong appetite for status that they had been cultivating since their middle school years.

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Now, at the school education spot in Japan, the division-of-work system is introduced in various fields. And various specialists have participated in school education. The division-of-work system of a school is a natural system in U. S. school education. However, a feel is not good about a division-of-work system in a Japanese school. This paper focuses on the specialist who plays an active part in the field of "educational consultation" and "student guidance". And this paper considers a specialist's "speciality nature" and "validity." Furthermore, I gaze at the raison d'etre in the school of a specialist from my fieldwork. And I express my idea about the fragility of the division-of-work system in the school spot in Japan.

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Some researchers suggest that 'Truancy' amongst delinquent students has been marginalized in the context of 'school non-attendance' (SNA), but they have failed to explain how this concept gained prevalence. By comparing several social movements that took place after the 1991 KAZENOKO GAKUEN incident in which two 'Truant&apos teens were murdered in a SNA support institution and which influenced educational policy, this study examines how media reports represented the concept. The findings of this study point out that social movements were generally faced with four dilemmas while adapting their tactics to win media attention. Since these dilemmas affected each other, media re-contextualized the concept of SNA in a biased manner. In the media's view, 'Rights of Children' in SNAs was only applicable to those students with a tendency towards absenteeism, and not those students who had been rejected by a school because of their 'Truant' behaviour. This article concludes that it is important for future research to focus on the grey area between 'Truant' school pupils and school non-attendance.

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