Emergence and Development of the Sociology of Housing: History of Methods

在这项研究中，阐明了20世纪40年代美国住房社会学方法的早期阶段。主要集中在R·K·默顿和他的同事在哥伦比亚大学应用社会研究局对规划社区进行的引人注目但几乎不为人所知的研究。此外，还澄清了20世纪70-80年代出现的英国社会学方法的累积发展。这项研究的结果表明，我们可以将住房社会学的演变理解为一个产生了几种方法论方法的过程：社会心理学、政治经济学和民族志。这个过程可以被视为对住房的重新定义：从现有理论和研究方法的实验室到具有内在意义的目标。

In this study, the early stages of the sociological approach to housing in the United States during the 1940s were elucidated. The main focus was on the remarkable, but almost unknown, research on planned communities conducted by R. K. Merton and his colleagues at the Bureau of Applied Social Research, Columbia University.Moreover, the cumulative development of the British sociological approach to housing that emerged during the 1970-80s was clarified. The two major issues were the politics of the distribution of scarce urban resources and various forms of work constructing the home.The results of this study showed that we could comprehend the evolution of the sociology of housing as a process generating several methodological approaches: social psychology, political economy, and ethnography. The process might be seen as the redefinition of housing: from a laboratory of existing theories and research methods to an objective with inherent significance.