SPATIAL-BEHAVIOR STUDIES: CONCEPTS AND CONTEXTS. IN: NEW HORIZONS IN TRAVEL-BEHAVIOR RESEARCH
Caren Heidemann · 1981
Explication of concepts and construction of contexts are interrelated procedures of clarification in as the logical relationship between concepts constitutes the context for each concept, and the emerging context serves as a base for the reduction of polyguity of the used concepts. This paper employed two methodological principles to arrive at the concept/context pattern suggested: the use of fact-coordinative concepts for the representation of the factual reference system; and the application of the high level-structure paradigm for the organization of the representation scheme. Identified in the paper are two different level-connecting processes: hierarchic processes originate from the variation of regimens on a certain level and lead to the adaptation of budgets on the next lower level; and synergistic processes are initiated by the variation of budgets on a certain level and entail the adaptation of regimens on the next higher level.