Family Composition

Japanese: 《家族構成》 - かぞくこうせい
Family Composition

…Abandoning the speculative style of his predecessor, Takebe Tongo, he critically adopted the social survey methods that had developed in America in order to establish an empirical sociology, and wrote “Social Surveys” (1933), setting the precedent for investigating the actual conditions of social phenomena. In particular, sociological research based on these social surveys blossomed in his major work, “Family Structure” (1937). This pioneered a new field of group aspects in the field of family and kinship research, which had previously been focused solely on the institutional aspects, and elucidated their structure and function using sophisticated statistical methods. It can be said that this became the cornerstone of family sociology, of which Japanese sociology can be proud in the world today. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to "family composition" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…前任者建部遯吾(たけべとんご)の思弁的学風を排して,経験的社会学を確立するために,アメリカで発達していた社会調査法を批判的に摂取し,《社会調査》(1933)を著し,社会現象の実態調査への先鞭(せんべん)をつけた。とくにこの社会調査にもとづく社会学研究が開花したのは,主著《家族構成》(1937)においてである。これは,従来もっぱら制度的側面の研究に傾斜していた家族・親族の研究分野に,集団的側面の新分野を開拓し,その構造と機能を精緻な統計的方法によって解明したものであり,今日日本の社会学が世界に誇りうる家族社会学の礎石となったということができよう。…

※「《家族構成》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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