华南地区宗族化聚落以其社会组织方式的特殊性、强大性和延续性吸引了大量学者的目光，但对其形态的关注以及形态与社会结构之间的互动关系的研究始终游离在主流学术界的视野之外。本课题尝试以“空间-社会”理论为基础，研究华南宗族化传统聚落形态与社会结构的互动关系等相关问题。研究以探讨宗族化聚落形态特征为出发点，采用“假设-检验-解释-演绎”思维演进方法：首先，建立“空间-社会”的研究框架，解答空间形态如何物化社会制度；在对宗族化传统聚落形态的原型、结构和要素进一步归纳的基础上，借助福柯权力关系理论聚焦“空间-社会”互动的理论框架，研究宗族权力的实践与聚落空间形态和制度的构建的互动关系；通过不同地区、不同形态特征的宗族化聚落的横向比较研究，最终，提出“权力-时间-空间”统一体猜想，探索在“国家-基层”治理的动态过程中，华南宗族化聚落的形成机制与地域建构的重构。

The specificity, formidability and continuity of the clan-organized settlements in southern China drew lots of attention from sociologists, but the research of the form study and the interaction between form and social structure haven’t got acceptance from mainstream academia. The research tries to take the space-society theory as the foundation, to explore the form of clan-organized settlements in southern China and the interactive relationship with social structure. The research begins with the characteristics of clan-organized settlements, and follows an evolution of hypothesis-test-interpretation-deduction. Firstly, building a research framework of space-society to interpret how space materialize social system. And then, focus the frame of space-society interaction by virtue of power theory of Foucault by inducing the prototype, structure and elements of the settlements, to study the interactive relationship between the practice of clan power and the construction of the space and the institution. Finally, raise a hypothesis of power-time-space unity to explore the formation mechanism of clan-organized settlements and the regional reconstruction in southern China during the dynamic procedure of state – grassroots’ governance throughout a series of comparative studies.