<論文>いじめの国際比較における概念分析の方法に関する検討 --家族的類似の概念構造の形成と扱い方を中心にして--

Abstract

School bullying is recognized as a public issue in a number of countries, and international comparative studies about school bullying have been performed for two decades. However, few comparative studies have been conducted outside European countries, especially between European and Asian countries. In an earlier study, I determined that there is no globally-recognized common definition of bullying. Furthermore, the definition of bullying used in each country manifests a structure of "family resemblance", meaning no one feature is common to all definitions, and only a series of overlapping similarities could be found. In a word, the international study of bullying lacks a widely acceptable standard for framing the object, a major obstacle to the international study of bullying. To establish a comparatively generally applicable standard, I adopt the idea of "family resemblance" in concept understanding and analyzing of bullying. In Section 2, I reviewed three approaches of concept studies, and argued that "effects of knowledge" on a family resemblance category construction, advocated by Gregory Murphy, would be an appropriate theoretical base for my study. In Section 3, I applied Murphy's idea to the concept construction analysis of bullying. As a further step, I adopted the concept apparatus of "relationship symbol" for visualizing the effect of knowledge in concept construction.