Youth Culture in Popular Comics : Content Analysis from Reader's View

マンガ セカイ ヲ トオシテ ミル ユースカルチャー ナイヨウブンセキ ノ ドクシャシコウ テキ カイシャク

タニモト, ナホ

Tanimoto, Naho

オオサカ ダイガク ニンゲン カガクブ キョウイクガク ケンキュウシツ

Department of Education, Faculty of Human Sciences, Osaka University

This paper re-analyzes Nakazawa’s work on the impact of a high school entrance system called “Sougou-senbatsu.”. It can be defined as a high school entrance system that is aimed at closing the gap between students’ achievement levels across different high schools. Nakazawa (2008) examined the difference between students’ aspirations for a higher education in two systems, by using a log-linear table analysis. One system, called the “Tandoku-senbatsu.” is a mainstream system in Japan. In this system, students can select a single public high school, which they wish to attend, and must pass the entrance examination in order to get themselves enrolled. On the other hand, in the “Sougou-senbatsu” system, students are assigned to be equally distributed across high schools. According to Nakazawa, the “Tandoku-senbatsu” system strengthens the association between students’ aspirations for a higher education and their academic achievement levels during junior high school. The “Sougou-senbatsu” system can help students retain their aspirations for a higher education even if their achievement level was not high during junior high school. This paper examines the hypothesis that the association between the students’ cultural capitals and aspirations for a higher education is stronger in the “Tandoku-senbatsu” system than the “Sougou-senbatsu.” as is shown by Nakazawa. However, the result does not support the hypothesis. Thus follows that the association between the students’ cultural capitals and aspirations for a higher education is stronger in the “Sougou-senbatsu” system. Therefore, it can be concluded that, as far as this result is concerned, “Sougou-senbatsu” may strengthen the association between cultural capitals and aspirations.