Research On The Spatial Behavior Of Corps Field Residents’ Daily Life From The Perspective Of Embeddedness

In the background of urbanization in China,human geographers led by Yanwei Chai started from the perspective of behavioral geography and time-geography,took cities as the main research areas,started from the individual micro level,took daily life as the entry point,used Bottom-up and non-elite perspective to explores the interactive relationship between people and the urban environment,at present,they has formed an academic genre and characteristics of urban social space behavior in China.In recent years,the unique social organization in China,the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps,has also participated in the urbanization process.Compared with the residents of large cities,what kind of spatial behavior characteristics will the residents of the Corps field show? How are their behavioral characteristics formed? In this paper,the 106 Regiment of the Sixth Agricultural Division in Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps which located in the north edge of Gurbantunggut Desert,is selected as the research area,the residents of the regiment are research objects,using the questionnaire survey,semi-structured interviews and literature methods to obtain data.The 281 valid questionnaires were obtained and 16 people were interviewed.Using SPSS tools and qualitative analysis methods to study and summarize the characteristics of daily living spatial behavior characteristics such as residence,consumption and leisure,then based on embeddedness theory,excavate the mechanism behind the formation of behavior characteristics and reveal the operation process of the Corps field society.Provide a reference for the Corps to promote "people-oriented" urbanization.The paper draws some conclusions as following:(1)The structure of jobs-housing affects the characteristics of daily spatial behavior of the corps field residents.Due to the urbanization construction,the residents of the corps changed from the integration of work and residence to separation of work and residence,the daily life spatial behavior range from "centered on the companies,seasonally extended to the regiment" to "centered on the regiment,seasonally extended to the companies and outside the corps".However,the residents concentrated in the space of the regiment are still deeply rooted in the company’s social network,and they are still deeply affected by the company’s social network and the peasant class.(2)institutional embedding limits the boundaries of residents’ behavior and indicates the direction.By virtue of its authority,the institution forms compulsory binding force through laws,regulations,methods,etc.It changes the living space,consumption space and leisure space of the residents of the corps,at the same time reshapes the social space of the corps;the regulations have reduced residents’ leisure space;various social welfare systems have also stimulated residents’ demands and influenced residents’ behavioral decision-making.(3)Non-institutional embedding affects residents’ response to institutional embedding.When the institution embedding,non-institutional factors such as relationship,structure,and culture are contained and affect the residents’ response,there are internal differences in residents’ responses to the institution.The embeddedness theory has an explanatory power to behavior geography.While revealing the formation mechanism of the daily space behavior of the residents of the regiment,it shows the true social status of the corps,and better explains the special social space--the operation process of man-land relationship in the corps field;at the same time,the embeddedness theory has enlightening significance for managers to formulate new governance models.