「中流階級」「知識階級」へのまなざしとその変容 : 大正後期・昭和初期の文化生活運動が意味するもの

The Attention to the "Middle/Educated Class" and its Transition : The implications of the Modern/Cultural Life Movement in the later Taisho and the early Showa era

Hisai Eisuke

広島大学大学院教育学研究科紀要. 第三部, 教育人間科学関連領域

Bulletin of the Graduate School of Education, Hiroshima University. Part 3, Education and human science

Kokichi Morimoto, a pioneer of studies on consumption economics in Japan and an idealistic educator of girls and adults in the later Taisho and the early Showa era, paid attention to the leading role of the "middle class," especially that of the "educated class" in the improvement of living. However it seems that former studies are lacking in detailed examinations in Morimoto's thought and movement (Bunka-Seikatsu-Undo : the Modern/Cultural Life Movement) in the middle and the end of 1920s. In this paper I maintain that his idea of "the leading role of the middle/educated class" became ambiguous in the later 1920s. I also shed light on Morimoto's sympathetic attention to the "working class" and to their pitiful life. Morimoto took the projects for the "working class" as the "second mission" or the "ultimate goal" of Bunka-Seikatsu-Undo, although he couldn't make any concrete approaches to the working class as a matter of fact, and failed in expanding this movement as "social service" projects.

middle class

educated class

movement for the inprovement of living

中流階級

知識階級

生活改善運動

Education [ 370 ]

jpn

広島大学大学院教育学研究科

[ISSN] 1346-5562

[NCID] AA11625039