NISTEP analyzed the job selection tendencies of university 
students and the career selection problems of university-minded 
senior high school students, to study the actual situation of 
the 
young people's drift away from science and technology and the 
conditions for securing competent young scientists and 
engineers. 
NISTEP published the analytical results in 1989 and 1990 
(References 1 and 2).  Furthermore, a series of studies on the 
relation between the science & technology and the society 
conducted by NISTEP included the analysis on the relation 
between young people and science & technology (Reference 3).  
Also thereafter, NISTEP 
inherited the critical mind and results of those studies, and 
analyzed more deeply the correlation between young people and 
science & technology.
	A series of these analytical results reveals the actual 
situation on the relation between young people and science & 
technology particularly in young people's career selection.  It 
suggests that in order to tempt potentially competent people 
to 
more positively grapple with science and technology, it is 
necessary to intensify the information on scientific and 
technological activities presented to young people in such a 
manner as suitable for the present age when the fruits of latest 
science and technology abundantly exist as consumables around 
us.  This report publishes the results of these analyses and 
also the results of discussion as to how to present the 
information on scientific and technological  activities to 
young people.
	The correlation between young people and science & 
technology is important for the promotion of science and 
technology in two aspects.  In one aspect, some young people 
will be directly engaged in future scientific and technological 
activities (by entering science- and engineering-related 
departments in universities and by being engaged in the jobs 
concerned with science and technology). In the other aspect, 
young people will keep relations with science and technology 
by accepting the fruits of science and technology to support 
scientific and technological activities in future as full-
fledged members of the society.
	Both the aspects are surmised to relate to each other. But 
under the present education scheme, the two aspects in the 
correlation between young people and science & technology begin 
to 
separate when they are going to enter universities.  Students 
who 
have selected the science and engineering majors are promising 
candidates for future scientists and engineers.  But those who
have selected humanities and social science majors seldom 
become 
scientists and engineers.  So, the university students' 
attitudes toward and consciousness of science and technology 
do not have relations with their career selection as scientists 
and engineers or others. However, senior high school students' 
attitudes toward and consciousness of science and technology 
are surmised to have 
relation with their wish to be scientists and engineers.
	This study analyzes senior high school students' general 
attitudes toward and consciousness of science and technology, 
the actual situation of their consciousness to participate in 
scientific and technological activities, and the correlation 
between both of them, and discusses the functions of the 
information on scientific and technological activities 
received 
by young people.  This report

  1) Analyzed senior high school students' consciousness of
     career selection and of science & technology.
  2) Identified both the consciousness structurally and 
analyzed 
     their correlation.
  3) Discussed the functions of the information on scientific 
and 
     technological activities.

The objective of the study is to discuss, through the above 
efforts, how to present to young people the information on the 
activities of science and technology themselves, the images of 
scientists and engineers themselves, etc., in short, the 
information on scientific and technological activities through 
households, elementary and secondary education, mass media and 
scientists & engineers in the present highly advanced science 
and technology society.