Quantitative Analysis of Advice Columns about Domestic Issue

ミノウエ　ソウダン　ノ　ケイリョウテキ　ブンセキ　カテイ　モンダイ　ニ　チュウモク　シテ

オオタキ, トモオリ

Ootaki, Tomoori

オオサカ ダイガク ダイガクイン ニンゲン カガク ケンキュウカ シャカイガク ニンゲンガク ジンルイガク ケンキュウシツ

Sociology, Anthropology and Philosophy, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University

身の上相談

コンピュータ・コーディング

質的データ

domestic issues

advice columns

computer coding

qualitative data

It is common knowledge that qualitative data is useful in sociology. Although, computer coding which is the way of analyzing qualitative data quantitatively has been scarcely utilized. In this paper, I introduce this way of analysis. The purpose of this paper is to explore the dissatisfactions of wives with work in a family domain by computer coding. To deal with this, I examine what kind of dissatisfaction they have and which stage in their life they experience it at. The material used is all 1518 cases by personal-advice columns in newspaper. As a result of analysis, the following results were obtained: l) Most of dissatisfactions are related with "children". These appear in every stages of the life of wives. 2) Dissatisfactions about housework are not irrespective of wives' age. However, 3) Lots of dissatisfaction about "son" and "daughter" is related to big life events of them as marriage. Accordingly, most of these dissatisfactions occur to middle-aged wives. 4) Dissatisfactions about parents are easy to occur just after marriage and childbirth. Therefore, these dissatisfactions tend to occur to young wives.