<論文>現代大学生における「教養」の計量的分析

Abstract

Historically liberal education and humanistic culture it offers have been tied up with Japanese higher educational system and have formed a core of elite culture. So at first they had two different characteristics: symbol of the difference from mass culture and preliminaries for advanced education. But the high economic growth in 60's and 70's resulted in prevalence of mass culture and practical mind and changed the characters of elite culture. In this article we analyze quantitatively on consciousness of contemporary university students in two largest urban areas in Japan. We conclude that they regard liberal education as a basis for specialized education rather than for humanistic culture and that they think they achieve humanistic culture through their company with their friends. Finally we offer several suggestion of this result.