Systematic Social Observation

• Hanyu Kazunori

  Nihon University

• Motoyama Yui

  Nihon University

• Shimada Takahito

  National Research Institute of Police Science

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• 系統的社会観察
• In Sociology, Environmental Psychology and Healthy Environmental Studies
• 社会学，環境心理学，健康環境研究の系譜

Abstract

This paper is a review on systematic social observation. First, systematic social observation in sociology, established by Reiss, is introduced, and some methodological issues, pros, and cons of it are described. Then, in comparison with systematic observation in sociology, this method in environmental psychology is discussed. The discussion above points out that mainly because of its huge cost in time and budget, systematic social observation has rarely been adopted except for some sociology and environmental psychology studies. Next, the rapid expansion of usage of systematic social observation to assess the neighborhoods in the health environment studies because of the recent recognition of the importance of active living that permits and facilitates daily activity is noted. In addition, the expansion of feasibility of automated systematic social observation caused by growing accessibility to open landscape images and advancing machine learning is mentioned. As a closing statement, we refer to an expected role of environmental psychologists and social scientists in the broad sense, in the future systematic social observation research.

Journal

• Japanese Journal of Environmental Psychology

  Japanese Journal of Environmental Psychology 9 (1), 1-18, 2021

  The Japanese Society of Environmental Psychology

Keywords

• systematic observation
• physical environmental assessment
• social sciences

Details

• CRID: 1390006451953684224
• NII Article ID: 130008034834
• DOI: 10.20703/jenvpsy.9.1_1
• ISSN: 21891427
• Text Lang: ja
• Data Source:
  • JaLC
  • CiNii Articles
  • KAKEN
• Abstract License Flag: Disallowed