Doctoral Dissertation Research: Categories in Geographic Representation

宾州州立大学的特鲁迪（Suchan, Trudy）说，为了空间分析和绘图的目的，分类对于理解个人的日常世界是必要的。这篇博士论文的研究将集中在一个数据经常被汇总、分析和绘制的类别的内部性质——农村。本案例研究通过深度访谈收集的数据，探讨了人们对农村的普遍心理分类，并将这些分类与构成农村问题地图基础的形式化概念进行了比较。非正式和正式的定义在原型范畴理论的条件下进行检验。讨论已查明的差异的影响，特别是当正式类别是向公众提供的资料的基础时。

Suchan, Trudy Pennsylvania State University Categories are necessary for making sense of the everyday world of the individual for purposes of spatial analysis and mapping. This doctoral dissertation research will focus on the internal nature of a category for which data are often aggregated, analyzed and mapped-rural. The case study explores, through data collected by in-depth interviews, common mental categorizations of rural, and compares these to the formalized conceptions that underlie maps about rural issues. Informal and formal definitions are examined in terms of prototype category theory. Implications of identified differences are discussed, particularly when the formal categories are the basis of information presented to the public.