Human territorial functioning : an empirical, evolutionary perspective on individual and small group territorial cognitions, behaviors, and consequences
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Human territorial functioning : an empirical, evolutionary perspective on individual and small group territorial cognitions, behaviors, and consequences
(Cambridge series in environment and behavior)
Cambridge University Press, 1988
- : hard
- :pbk
Available at 34 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
'Territorial functioning' refers to an interlocked system of sentiments, cognitions, and behaviors that are highly place-specific, and socially and culturally determined and maintaining. In this book, Ralph Taylor explores the consequences of human territorial functioning for individuals, small groups, and the ecological systems in which they operate. His exploration is illuminated by his evolutionary perspective, and grounded in empirical studies by social scientists and in theoretical work on the evolution of social and spatial behaviors. He systematically reviews the related research and theory, and indicates the importance of territorial functioning to current social and environmental problems. Contrary to popular wisdom, he argues that territorial functioning is relevant only to limited locations, such as street blocks, and not to neighborhoods or nation states, and that it reduces conflicts and helps maintain settings and groups. His theoretically focused examination of all that has been discovered about human territorial functioning will interest a wide variety of environmental psychologists and designers, urban sociologists, social psychologists, planners, and ethologists, and their students.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- Part I. Origins of Human Territorial Functioning: 2. Territorial Functioning and Related Processes in Different Species
- 3. The Origins of Human Territorial Functioning
- 4. Theoretical Perspectives on Interpreting Territorial Functioning: Exactly How did it Evolve?
- Part II. A Conceptual Model of Human Territorial Functioning: 5. A Perspective on Human Territorial Functioning
- 6. Clarifying Psychological and Ecological Consequences
- Part III. Territorial Functioning in Settings of Varying Centrality: 7. Interior Residential Settings
- 8. Territorial Functioning in Outdoor Residential Spaces Close to the Home
- 9. Regular Use Settings
- 10. Minimal Territorial Functioning
- Part IV. Applications to Social Problems: 11. Disorder
- 12. Resource Conservatism
- Part V. Review and Prospects: 13. Summary of the General Line of Argument and its Implications
- 14 Future Directions for Research and Application.
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