英文摘要 |
This study adopts the perspective of the mutual construction of space and society. It explores the issues of social exclusion and negotiation in the public space at Tamsui MRT station. More specifically, this research aims to understand the ways in which young people produce and transform the public space into street dance place. To explore how the ‘adultized’ public space is reproduced by young street dancers. By doing this, this research emphasizes that the society needs to pay more attention to young people’s need of space. The methods adopted in the study are observation, questionnaire survey and in-depth interview. The participants include pedestrians, street dance young people and MRT managers of the Tamsui MRT station. These methods are used to investigate the ways in which the social differences of social roles, age, and gender create the mechanism of inclusion and exclusion between the self and the other. There are three parts to this research finding. First, the people who has more social resources can exclude the others’ using right, teenagers may be. Second, more rational behavior makes negotiable space. Third, if people tried to understand the others, the public space would be friendlier. Social exclusion has its multiple network that might be changed. The research findings suggest that the publicity of public space can be improved if young people have opportunities to express their needs. To respect the requirements and differences between users of the public space is also needed. |