The Dandy on the City Stage： Social Roles, Social Spaces and Commodity Consumption

Dandyism is a very important and significant social phenomenon in 19th century Europe, and also a means of aesthetic revolt in an urban environment. The paper focuses on how Charles Baudelaire presents his dandy＇s rebellion, based on aestheticism, on the city stage. Only the city produces dandies and dandies cannot breathe without the city. On ＂stage＂, Baudelaire played different dandy roles, such as the flameur, the ragpicker, and man of letters. Walking the streets, the dandy is a member of the crowd but also isolated from it; his main duty is to observe the city and mass silently, and seek the flowers of evil.

Research on the Renewal Strategy of Social Space for the Elderly in Colleges and Universities from the Perspective of Multi Generations:Take a University in the North as an Example

Under the background of population aging,while the living environment of the elderly is improved,it is necessary to pay attention to their spiritual needs and build an elderly-friendly and livable social environment.In this paper,through field investigation and research on social behavior and space,the social behavior and needs of the elderly in a university in the north were analyzed,and based on the social characteristics and psychological needs of the elderly and students in the university,the construction of a dynamic space with multi-generational shared space as the core was proposed to develop a social platform that integrates virtual and reality,so as to provide reference for the updating of social space in college communities in the future.

From ＂Fast-Thinking＂ to ＂Slack-tivism＂： Remarks Concerning the Web-Mediated Social Space

The invention of the World Wide Web, especially the Web 2.0, originally led some sociologists to believe that this tool would have favoured the creation of a ＂collective intelligence＂ able to spread and increase the level of democracy in the society. Nowadays, as a matter of fact, Information and Communications Technologies （ICTs） continue excluding part of the population and contribute to a top-down organisation of the main streams of information neutralising active potentialities and risking, paradoxically, to isolate users who are not aware of the mechanisms of the lnternet. The ＂doxic＂ acceptance of web contents, structures, and tools indeed precludes some kinds of knowledge and some different models of participation, with significant consequences on the social construction of reality. As a result, a tendency emerges towards a virtual-only participation and the click-tivism seems more and more to be turning into a form of slack-tivism.

Locating Power and Decision-Making： Social Production of Space in Juiz de Fora, Brazil

This paper aims to discuss how the shaping of a city, Juiz de Fora, in Brazil, has resulted from the power of location of some social agents and from their disputes on the production of space. First, it introduces the concept of social production of space, emphasizing the role of social agents in urban processes. Then, it presents specific aspects of the history of Juiz de Fora＂ its origins and how social agents and forces have played a significant role in shaping the built environment of the city--specially represented by main streets of the city. The paper studies how the social agents, with their different visions and goals, have influenced the process of formation and development of the city. This demonstrates the complexity of the existing relationships between the built environment and the social context that is specific to the city. Different urban forces fight for city spaces, construct and modify its territory so that their needs are fulfilled. Their strength, their experiences and efforts, and their ideas of a city are inscribed in urban landscapes; in similar ways, these are revealed by the city paths we follow here.

Labtse and the Reinscription of Sacralized Social Space

One of the most widely reported, yet ignored, Tibetan folk rituals concerns labtse. In westernliterature, the longest discussion of labtse is S. Hummel’s, which appeared in Anthropos some 30years ago. There Hummel discussed the symbolic significance of labtse from the perspective of Kul-turkreislehre. Most writings on the subject, both in China and the west, seem to have followed inthe same epistemological footsteps. Studies of labtse have been dominated by what we shall call

An Analysis of A Rose for Emily from the Perspective of Spatial Narrative

The novel A Rose for Emily is one of the early works of William Faulkner,a famous American southern writer who has won The Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950.Spatial narrative theory analyzes and summarizes the spatial characteristics of modern and postmodern novels,showing the narrative characteristics of the works that the time is disrupted and suspended,and the space is extended indefinitely.This paper intends to interpret A Rose for Emily from the perspective of spatial narrative theory,and analyze the geological space,social space and text space in the novel,so as to reveal the important role of spatial structure in creating atmosphere and promoting narrative process,in order to better grasp the spatial metaphors in Faulkner’s novels.

Social Language Learning Spaces： Affordances in a Community of Learners

This paper reports on an ethnographic inquiry into the linguistic and sociocultural affordances available to English and Japanese foreign language learners through their engagement in a social learning space at a Japanese university. By social learning space we refer to a facility in which students come together in order to learn with and from each other in a non- formal setting. To explore the social learning dynamic in this environment, we carried out a longitudinal ethnographic inquiry. Data came primarily from interviews with learners and administrators, supported by participant-observations. A thematic analysis of the data, informed by ecological and community of practice perspectives, pointed to the emergence of a community of learners and revealed how closely the affordances were connected with the emergent community. In this paper we report on the findings related to the affordances which gave rise to language learning opportunities, the relationship of these affordances to the conditions which supported the development of a community of learners, and the role of learner autonomy in regard to these two interrelated phenomena.

Family-Society: The Dual Identity of Chinese Women

The analysis of the historical and theoretical origins of the dual identity of Chinese women based on the Marxist view of family-society enables a more scientific and reasonable explanation to the unity of history and logic of Chinese women’s dual identity.Under the guidance of the Marxist concept of family-society,Chinese women will achieve development in both family space and social space;meanwhile,Chinese women in the dual identity development carry the home-state emotion different from that of western women’s;cultivating women’s awareness of family identity is of great significance to the construction of family style or national style in the new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics.

Dream boy： Discuss Kes and Billy Elliot in relation to Raymond Williams＇s Categories of Culture

By contrasting the two British films, KesI and Billy Elliot2, which in different historical periods, the paper is a comparative cultural study to films. Aside from the similarities, the differences between the two films precisely show the cultural and social differences in reality. In Raymond Williams＇ s theory of cultural materialism, culture can be divided into three categories--the dominant, residual and emergent. In relation to this, the ＇cultural hybridity＇ can be shown clearly among the problems （eg. gender, class, sexuality, etc） that the two films involve. Then, I suggest that the relationships between Kes and the ＇emergent culture＇ is an important cultural aspect which Kes exceeds to Billy Elliot.

Qualitative Research Methods in Spatial Urban Development： A Methodological Investigation of Approaches into Urban Development Based on Centralities in the Context of a Medium-Sized European City

Dispersed and peripheral spaces in the urban core are influenced both by the trend towards constant growth as well as social ways of life which are constantly evolving. Following a connotation, these two factors therefore play a crucial role in defining the alternation of urban space--in particular, that of the centers. The main focus of this research article is on the methodology used in the survey and evaluation of ＂centralities＂ as well as their developments over the past four decades （1974-2014） in approaches to urban development that has been developed in Graz.~ The analysis has drawn on the four editions （＂evolution＂） of approaches to urban development as conceived by the city of Graz in order to examine their verbal characteristics in regard to centralities. At the same time, the analysis does not examine presentations of plans which exist in supplementary forms （e.g., explanatory reports and supplemented plans）--it restricts itself solely to the various plans set out in the STEKs.2 The highest degree of accuracy has been applied to the notion of ＂centralis＂ in approaches to urban development. The goal of the research project was to depict the modulation of the notion of ＂centrality＂ in the urban context as a space-forming dimension. Furthermore, it clearly shows the extent to which the notion of the ＂centre＂ （in the widest sense of the word） has become distanced from qualitative, spatial development and at the current time of urban development is experiencing a sort of Renaissance. In the field of ＂urban development＂, architectural references in the context of＂centrality＂ have scarcely been researched. This has led to the opening-up of a complex interdisciplinary research field. In order to make the complex architectural determinants of ＂centrality＂ more accessible to the participating disciplines, approaches to urban development have been explored in the form of a social and spatial analysis.

A Study of Survival Predicaments in Graham Swift’s Waterland from the Perspective of Spatial Theory

In Waterland,contemporary British writer Graham Swift tells the protagonist Tom,using a mix of reality and history recreates the ecological devastation of the Fens Marsh,the fall of the Atkinson family and the spiritual collapse of the people.This paper attempts to explore the dilemma of human existence by starting from Henry’s spatial theory and dividing it into physical space,social space and mental space.

Consumption and Leisure Patterns of Youth in Turke

Consumption-oriented daily life resulted in new forms of consumption spaces in many cities. Among these spaces, shopping malls are significant with their improved physical and social environments for consumption and leisure for all the family. One of the important marginalized groups, to whom the mall appeals, are young people. Within this framework, the main purpose of this study is to investigate the consumption and leisure practices and experiences of young people in Turkey from their point of view. Migros, a shopping mall in Ankara, was chosen as the site for this research, where both consumption and leisure practices are overlapping within the same space. The research was carried out through observation and in-depth interviews with 104 teenagers. The results indicated that shopping malls were the main leisure and consumption site for teenagers. Teenagers＇ choice of malls as their favorite leisure and consumption space were found to be the result of some factors such as restrictions which were provoked by their parents, security concerns, location of the mall, and accessibility and limited financial resources. These factors seemed to lead to restrictions in the choice of places to spend their leisure time and limit the use of leisure spaces other than malls. As a consumer group in the mall space, teenagers had some complaints about the prices of facilities which seemed to be influential on their choices of consumption and leisure practices in the mall environment.

People as place-making coordinate： A methodology for visualizing personal spaces

The present research introduces the Activity Counter Maps （ACM） as a methodology for visualizing people＇s social spaces, arguing that accurate representations of these spaces are crucial for understanding the role of human activity as a place-making coordinate. The ACM were tested in two case studies conducted in Ueno Park （Tokyo）. The first case study is focused on the visualization of the intensity of activity in the totality of the park. The second case study is focused in two sub-places of the park, generating representations of people＇s personal spaces combined into a three-dimensional ＂Common social space＂. The research concludes with the analysis of the generated visualizations and their potential for incorporating place-variables into the digital design process.

Structure and governance model of rural social space quality:A case study of Longxi County in the Loess Hilly Area of China

The rural social space quality is an important indicator to measure the living standard and thinking ideas and so forth of rural residents in a certain region.In this paper,213 administrative villages in Longxi County of the Loess Hilly Area,China are taken as evaluation units to construct the evaluation model of the rural social space quality.This paper deeply analyzed the variation patterns and their formation mechanism of the rural social space quality at a village scale,and proposed a governance model based on the rural social space quality.The results show that:(1)the social space quality levels of individual administrative villages show a gradually decreasing trend from the township seats to outward.The eastern part of Longxi County has a relatively high education level and living standard,and the western part has a relatively high population stability level and income level.(2)The rural social space quality is mainly in a ring structure,supplemented by the interlaced structure.The core area is the towns and their surrounding areas,while the transition area,marginal area,and other areas are expanded around the core area.(3)Social forces and spatial effects jointly shape the variation of the rural social space quality.Social organizations provide a driving force for the allocation of elements,and interweaving with the spatial effects lead to the differences in the social space quality.(4)The governance models of the rural social space quality are constructed based on the principles of retaining the rural“people”,optimizing the rural“land”,and developing the rural“industry”,so as to improve the rural centripetal force,core force,inner thrust,and source power.

Jiaoyufication as an education-driven gentrification in urban China:A case study of Nanjing

As a type of urban gentrification oriented by high-quality educational resources,jiaoyufication is a socio-spatial process that refers to the middle-class group that attaches importance to education realizes the agglomeration in famous school districts by purchasing high-price school district houses.Based on the theoretical analysis of jiaoyufication conducted by Chinese and foreign scholars,this paper takes Nanjing as a case city,applies multi-source data like POIs(points of interest),real estate market data,mobile-phone user portraits and questionnaires,and develops a composite measurement of jiaoyufication to identify jiaoyufied school district,jiaoyufied group&its spatial characteristics,and discusses the causal mechanisms and effects of jiaoyufication.With the GIS-entropy-TOPSIS model,this paper evaluates the jiaoyufication level of public primary school districts in the main urban area of Nanjing.The result show that 218 primary school districts are categorized into four types,i.e.,high jiaoyufied school district,mid-high jiaoyufied school district,medium jiaoyufied school district,and low jiaoyufied school district.The high jiaoyufied school districts are closely associated with the institutional system.In the high jiaoyufied school districts,many middle-class families have abundant social,economic,and cultural capital.They purchase and move to houses with lower living quality in school districts to pursue high-quality education for their children.The strict school district system,soaring school district housing prices,and intense educational competition continuously solidify the jiaoyufication levels of famous school districts and lock the opportunities for high-quality education in specific school-district spaces and classes or groups.The phenomenon of this socio-spatial reconstruction process,which results from the unequal distribution of high-quality educational resources,tends to aggravate the rich-poor gap and social segregation in cities.It is suggested that equalization of compulsory education services should be effectively carried forward as soon as possible.

适配性重要吗?对乡村社会空间与乡村生活圈的特征与关系进行分析

The construction of rural life circle has an essential impact on the change of rural social space.Analyzing the adaptation relationship between the two can be a new content in the study of “physical-social” space.Using social behavior as a link,we construct a logical relationship framework between rural life circle and social space.Based on the survey data of Baijia village in the loess hilly region,this paper analyzes the characteristics and adaptability of the two and discusses preliminary ideas of life circle reorganization and social space reconstruction.The study results are as follows:(1) Based on the location of four types of service facilities and the travel mode of villagers,two life circles of 15 min and 25 min have been formed in Baijia village.The rural social spaces such as communicative behavior space,health seeking behavior space,leisure behavior space,and consumption behavior space show a specific concentric circle structure and unique hierarchical structure.(2) The analysis of the adaptation between them shows that the 15 min life circle in Baijia village has a high level of adaptation to communicative and leisure behavior spaces.It plays a positive feedback role in the construction of social space.However,it has a low level of adaptability to the space of health seeking and consumption behavior spaces and has a negative feedback effect on the construction of social space.The 25 min life circle is the opposite.(3) The reorganization of facility layout,hierarchical structure,and service functions in the village life circle will lead to changes in the range,frequency,and purpose of villagers’ behavioral activities,resulting in a new social spatial pattern.These findings are important for formulating village development and construction plans,improving the settlement habitat,and reconstructing the order of social life.