Čaldarović, Ognjen and Dakić, Slavko and Kritovac, Fedor and Lay, Vladimir.
(1978).
Values and the Complementarity of Housing Spaces.
Revija za sociologiju, 8(1-2).
pp. 67-74.
ISSN 0350-154X, 1846-7954
Abstract
Housing problems of young people (pupils, students, young working people) as well
as broader aspects of housing problems are dealt with in this paper. In the first part, the
authors give a warning about the still insufficiently defined criteria of use value of housing
space as complex categories, and about the basic technologizing of discussions of housing
problems at the level of a simple satisfaction of basic human needs.
The idea is presented about the need for a more complex approach to the analysis
of the structure of housing space from the standpoint of the values of individual components
which make up a dynamic »picture« of housing space. In this sense, comments
are made on the basic results of a study which was conducted during the last two years
in a population of pupils, students and young workers, and which has since been published
as a book [Problemi stanovanja mladih (The Housing Problems of Youth), CDD,
Zagreb, 1978].
The authors are particularly informed about the »picture of housing space« and they
assert that it is complementary. That is, in addition to »physical« characteristics, an evaluation
of the quality of given housing space is also dependent on many »experiential«
characteristics (the opportunity to independently perform various activities, the degree of
isolation, the degree to which the space is disturbance-free, etc.). The basic conclusion
which is drawn is the following: perception of housing space is complementary and relatively
indivisible. In other words, if there is a clear disharmony between individual elements
which complete the »picture of housing space«, it is then difficult to talk about
quality. This is likewise the case when individual elements of the »picture« are substandard.
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