Study Of Chinese Traditional Settlement Pattern As The Characterization Of Social Structure

Traditional Settlement is closely related to human survival and development of the "resident" problem. The internal order of normative way of life based on human activities lived with people's social behavior and living space, and the social structure can be expressed by the settlement pattern. Characterized the settlement pattern as a social structure, conducive us to understand social the traditional settlement pattern completely from the "society—space" point, improve the system of human knowledge.At present, the traditional social structure of space—based reseasrch is facing three problems: 1. Summary the social which is abstract and complex ; 2.Summary the settlement space which seemed "can not be talk about claerly"; 3.Find the link between the social structure and settlement partern. Social structure and settlement pattern has some similar characteristics, according to structuralist point of view, both of them could be regarded as structural systems, in this article,we comparative analysis of both social structure and settlement patterns the similarities and differences between systems, by drawing on structuralist analysis of the relationship between the structural system. Attempts to approach its intrinsic nature, by abstract the theory and study the example. This article is divided into several parts to solve these problems one by one:1. Grasp the "relationship based" features of traditional Chinese, Analyze traditional Chinese social structure based on the combination of social network analysis in Fei Xiaotong's "differential pattern"theory.2. History of settlement in a large number of empirical studies based on the reference "group", "net", "topology" of mathematical concepts based on a large number of history study of settlement, analyze the traditional settlement pattern with examples, grasp the structure of the law.3. There are great differences between Social structure and settlement pattern while they are closely, it is difficult to express the relationship of them by simple graph or formula vividly, but it can help us to apperceive indirectly by analyze a large number of examples. As the social structure can not exist in empty space, in fact, it has a certain spatial identity. Settlement pattern can be considered a manifestation of the spatial characterize in a sense—it not only reflects some features of social structure, but also become the key, which help the social strcture condensed by relatively short—lived social relations keep its continuity. There are certain topological relations between s ettlement pattern and social structure of the system—and this topology is not simply a mathematical sense of space in the form of change, its implications go beyond the space category.4. Using the above methods—spatial analysis methods respectively, Longmen town, Warm springs town, Lhasa and Beijing, for example, the specific analysis of how social structure is implemented in a space of settlement, and play its role continuous in the course of its evolution.