지역격차의 사회공간관계

• 영문명: Socio-Spatial Relation in Regional Disparity
• 발행기관: 한국지역개발학회
• 저자명: 박서호(Park SeoHo)
• 간행물 정보: 『한국지역개발학회지』제10권 제3호, 119~140쪽, 전체 22쪽
• 주제분류: 사회과학 > 지역개발
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 1998.12.30

영문 초록

There are similar terms such as areal differences, regional disparity, regional uneven development, and localities, which come from respectively different methodologies, ie. chorology, new classic economics, political economics and new regional geography. The two former describe areal differences or uniqueness and regional equilibrium or disequilibrium with pre-given region, but the two latter explain uneven development and localities with regard to `process of territory` or `becoming region`. Chorology tries to describe regional uniqueness and regional wholeness in terms of idiographic approach, but it is resulted in gathering regional events within the study region. Regional equilibrium and disequilibrium approaches take time series and cross-sectional analysis, describe the trend and degree of regional disparity, and analyze several causal factors to regional disparity, but these causal factors are only selected among the pre-chosen socio-economics variables for research with regard to statistical significance. Marxist approaches assert that regional uneven development is related to capital accumulation, so as to geographical transfer of value, spatial division of labour, and spatial fix of capital accumulation, etc. But these focus on mainly of social formation in this spatial context, and disregard the function of `space per se` to social formation. New regional geography tries to explain specific region in terms of agents-structure, abstract-concrete, whole-part analysis-synthesis and idiographic-nomothetic. But It focuses on `locality` compare to Marxist approach on social structure, but it also neglects the effect of `space per se` on locality. This essay suggests a methodology to explain regional disparity with socio-spatial dialect. First, it introduce the concept of `space it self` as a component of socio-spatial dialect, which was omitted among existing researches. Second, there are three mechanisms for social formation, such as capital-labour relation, authority relation and grouping in civil society. These are resulted in respectively economic political and social regionalization. Third, in social formation, the social accessibility of social agents to resources (property, authority and human network) in and out of a region is critical, however the spatial relation among resources and social agents in and out of a region have effects the social accessibility. Fourth, social relations control spatial regulation for captial accumulation, legitimacy of hegemony and group identity. As a result, regionalization from socio-spatial dialect is a process and result of regional disparity itself.