The Formation of an Attitude to \u22Customary Norms in Everyday Life\u22 in the Family : Focusing on a Change of the Attitude Depending on Cognition for the Relivance to Others

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the formation of an attitude toward social norms in the family by referring to its social/cultural context. Do we observe/not observe the same rule, anytime and anywhere? Indeed we refer to the norms as \u22knowledge\u22 when we act, but actually it depends on the definition of the situation, especially the consciousness for the relevance to others, whether we observe it or not. In the former studies about \u22the formation of norm conciousness\u22 at the level of everyday life and about \u22moral socialization\u22, it like \u22Kanjin-Shugi (=contextual)\u22 act pattern in Japanese was not considered. But in the studies of socialization in Japan, it is pointed out that such a \u22contextual\u22 act pattern is formed by the family. For the relation of \u22parent(s)-children\u22 is the center of Japanese family, and the ranking between parents and children under such a family structure is not clear. Therefore I think that \u22positive social climate\u22 and \u22inductive discipline\u22 in the family, which are effective in the formation of norm conciousness or moral socialization in former studies based on the family in America or Europe, related to the NOT-Contextual attitude to the norms. To examine this problem, I used the data of the research for high-school students who are less influenced by families. In this questionnaires, I asked about an attitude toward the norms under these two situations about \u22customary norms in everyday life\u22 (ex. \u22Social rules\u22, manners, morals), which are set the directly \u22face-to-face\u22 situation and the indirectly \u22face-to-face\u22 situation (ex. \u22Public space\u22). The findings are as follows: (1)the formation of an attitude to \u22customary norms in everyday life\u22 is related to the family as \u22positive social climate\u22, but it is the strict climate to the rules, not familiarity. (2)The climate of the family of the type which decides an attitude to the norms depending on cognition for the relivance to others (=\u22the Contexual attitude\u22) is \u22positive\u22, as well as the type of it which observes the norms in both situations (=\u22the NOT-Contexual attitude\u22). (3)The \u22inductive discipline\u22 is not related to the formation of \u22the NOT-Contexual attitude\u22, but the formation of \u22the Contextual attitude\u22