校則のエスノメソドロジー-「パーマ退学事件」を事例として-  [in Japanese] An Ethnomethodological Study on School Regulations as Social Problem : The Case of "Perm-Taigaku-Jiken"  [in Japanese]

School Regulations are usually seen as affecting school organization by ordering individual students. Recently this view has been attacked with the argument that school regulations provide teachers with excuses for managing students under 'good' discipline in UNeducational ways. The polemic (argument for/against school regulations) is, however, fruitless and endless. Nevertheless it has become a major social problem in Japan. The purpose of the paper is to examine the mechanisms of this social problem. In the first section, the structure of the polemic is illustrated as a "normative paradigm". In the second section, reference is made to a famous case, "Perm-taigaku-jiken" and then the limitation of the "normative paradigm" is shown and an ethnomethodological model is illustrated as an alternative. With the model, in the third section, mechanisms of the school regulations problem are outlined and a social function of the problem is pointed out as "maintaining the ideology of educatability".