Reviewing the author's clinical involvements as a family sociologist, one of our significant and most expected contributions to adjacent fields might be to provide a framework to analyze the current situations under which various family problems are emerging. A family sociologist himself has not to become a clinician, a caseworker either a family therapist, when he undertakes a family research project with problem-solving issue, although being cooperetive with them is much desirable.Family sociology in Japan after the second world war, particularly in 1960s, had been sensitive to historical social change. This academic interest, however, has been soon taken over by new interest upon family problems such as the elderly, adolescents, less involvements of families in a community and so on. The shift from macro to micro viewpoints was decisively followed by the “sociology of everyday life” which places much emphasis upon patterns of and its meaning of interactions in our daily life. While this sociological viewpoint clarified a necessity to refer back to ourselves, it resulted in, on the other hand, a tendency of sticking too much to our own family lives. In the consequence, this tends to enclose our sociological imagination into private sectors of the family life, not rarely family life of researchers themselves. It is no doubt to be able to observe society on the macro level through a window of our own homes, but scenes observed through them is, no doubt as well, limited unevenly to partials and biased possiblly to those of upper-middle class. Even generally speaking, it is hard to see the family life of people who do not belong to the same social strata of researchers. We have to be sensitive much more to social stratification issue than ever before, and go beyond privatization of family research work.In this line, some strategies, tactics, focal points to concentrate our effort and tasks for the moment are discussed. Supportive and critical comments on the discussions held in the 24th Seminor are both put forward as well.