| Title |
An Introduction to Socio-Spatial Study |
| Abstract |
Man lives in a physical environment and in a socio-cultural environment. Built environment consists of both physical and socio-cultural settings intertwined to each other. Spatial organisation and social process are not two separate things but consitute the socio-spatial phenomenon. For a comprehensive understanding of the socio-spatial phenomenon, the collective dimension of representation and the ideology of low culture should be considered as much as individural representation and high culture ideology. We cannot follow either of the approaches of positivism and phenomenology for the socio-spatial study insofar as each of them cannot secure both of the systematic understanding and the concrete totality of phenomena. But, it is more important to build a conceptual framework upon the understanding of the relation between spatial orgnanisation and social process. |