With the understanding that one significant purpose of the present symposium is to identify any newly emerging paradigms in the field of family sociology in Japan, I focus my discussion on the issue of paradigm shift rather than on each of the excellent papers presented in this symposium.
The paradigm which has been dominant so far may be called the 'nuclear family paradigm.' It was established in the middle of the 1960' s through the so-called nuclear family controversy, replacing the IE paradigm which failed to interpret and analyze the drastic changes in the family in the post-war period.
In response to recent family changes since around 1970, family sociologists have tried earnestly to build up a new paradigm, but they have not been successful enough in that attempt. I deem a few minor paradigms emerging instead of a major one, and want to propose a high-density network paradigm as one of the minor paradigms of great promise.

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