連帯責任

• 読み: れんたいせきにん
• ローマ字: rentai sekinin
• 漢字の分解: 連 (ren) — linked, continuous | 帯 (tai) — to carry, wear | 責 (seki) — to blame | 任 (nin) — duty, responsibility
• 発音: /ɾen.ta.i.se.ki.nin/

意味

Joint responsibility; collective liability; a situation where all members of a group share responsibility for an act or outcome.

In law, 連帯責任 (also 連帯債務 in contract law) means that each member of a group is individually responsible for the full obligation — a creditor can pursue any one member for the entire debt. In everyday social usage, particularly in schools and sports teams, it describes the practice of punishing the entire group for one member's misconduct, which is common in Japanese group culture but increasingly debated as pedagogically problematic.

例文

1. 一人が規則を破ったため、クラス全体が連帯責任として放課後に居残りとなった。
2. 複数の業者が共同で契約した場合、連帯責任として全員が債務を負う。
3. チームの誰かがミスを犯せば連帯責任を問われる仕組みを見直すべきだという意見がある。

使い方ガイド

場面: law, education, sports, business, contracts

トーン: serious

起源と歴史

Compound of 連帯 (rentai — solidarity, joint; 連 'linked' + 帯 'to wear/carry') and 責任 (sekinin — responsibility; 責 'to blame' + 任 'duty'). The term reflects collective solidarity in bearing accountability — both in its cooperative and coercive dimensions.

文化的背景

時代: Meiji–Present

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Universal