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Developing a Theoretical Perspective and Methods about Interior Space and Society
Author(s) -
Hasell Mary Joyce,
Peatross Frieda Dell
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
journal of interior design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.229
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1939-1668
pISSN - 1071-7641
DOI - 10.1111/j.1939-1668.1991.tb00063.x
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , interview , space (punctuation) , sociology , stage (stratigraphy) , scale (ratio) , reciprocal , epistemology , management science , psychology , social psychology , computer science , engineering , geography , artificial intelligence , cartography , operating system , paleontology , linguistics , philosophy , anthropology , biology
This paper documents three investigations of the connections among human values, behavior, and space in residential settings. In Stage I, a feminist theoretical perspective and the method of content analysis were joined in an examination of house plans to determine links between women's changing roles and noticeable changes in house plans. In Stage II, a more general sociological theoretical perspective of gender was combined with three‐dimensional scale models and interviewing to examine more directly the interaction of personal values, behavior, and spatial preferences. Because the findings of Stage II provided research hypotheses but failed fully to explain the reciprocal interaction between people and space, the theoretical perspective and method were refined for a more detailed Stage III study. In that stage theoretical perspectives and research methods were merged for exploring social and spatial issues in domestic space. The aim of this paper is to explain the cyclical process of imaging, presenting, testing, and refining necessary for the formulation of theory and corresponding methods.