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THE MAIN APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF THE CITY PHENOMENON AS A SOCIAL SYSTEM
Author(s) -
Oleksandr Horban,
Anton Nesterovskyi
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
shìd
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2411-3093
pISSN - 1728-9343
DOI - 10.21847/1728-9343.2021.1(1).225768
Subject(s) - phenomenon , sociology , phenomenology (philosophy) , hofstede's cultural dimensions theory , dimension (graph theory) , social phenomenon , politics , space (punctuation) , social space , social science , epistemology , economic geography , political science , geography , computer science , philosophy , mathematics , pure mathematics , law , operating system
The article considers issues relevant to contemporary social philosophy regarding theoretical approaches to the study of the urban space phenomenon. The authors show how the social phenomenology of the city is studied within the socio-economic, socio-cultural, socio-ecological and urbanistic approaches. An analysis of the works of representatives of these approaches has made it possible to distinguish several dimensions of the city as a social phenomenon and the trend issues of relevant scientific research. Thus, within the framework of the spatial dimension, the city should be studied as the interaction of physical and social space, giving various configurations of the cultural and spiritual standard of living; the political and administrative dimension focuses the researcher on the study of the activity and interaction of formal organizations and administrative structures in terms of meeting a wide range of human needs. The economic dimension of the city allows considering it as a place of concentration of constantly operating markets, leading to an increase in consumption and the development of a consumer culture of social communities and groups; communication dimension shows it as a synergistic system of intersecting flows of information, under the influence and on the basis of which, complex interaction of social individuals, social institutions and groups is conducted with the aim of producing, using and distributing material and spiritual benefits. From the socio-cultural perspective, the city appears as a symbolic level of the existence of collective ideas, values, social, cultural codes; the so-called “urban myth” is of particular importance here.  

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