Abstract
In this paper I present a fragment of the results of my doctoral thesis, in which assuming in the sociological perspective that I am dealing with an example or a form of one of five types of adaptation to the situation of anomie, named by the American sociologist Robert K. Merton “retreatism”, described on the example of 24 Japanese hikikomori clients a problem being at the center of my scientific interests - the shakaiteki hikikomori (Eng. social withdrawal) in Japan (i.a. the profile of hikikomori person, the retreatism process of hikikomori people, the socio-cultural factors favoring the retreatism option in the form of hikikomori etc.) More specifically, in this paper I present the retreatism process of hikikomori people.