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조명옥 ( Cho Myung-Ok ) - 동의대학교 간호학과
임현숙 ( Lim Hyun-Suk ) - 호원대학교 간호학과
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Abstract
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Purpose: This study aimed to explore the changes in spatiality as people became older. We focused on space as a primary message system of micro-ethnography. The assumption of the study was that the aging body as an expression of space is a meta of physical, social, and super-natural space.
Methods: Data were collected from iterative fieldwork in a clan which located in south-west area of Korea between Jan, 1990 and Feb, 2015. 13 Key informants older than 70 yrs were participated in the study. Changes in patterns of using physical spaces, territoriality, and spiritual worlds as informants' body declined in its physical function were analyzed. As the cultural context, spatiality of the informants’ life world such as arrangements of graves and houses were also analyzed.
Results: The meta-space of the informants were constituted as follows: The 3 dimensions of space of informants' life changed as they become older. Proxemic behavior in physical spaces were based on efficiency and changed in its form from fixed to semi-fixed. Informants’territoriality was extended but practiced selectively. The supernatural worlds was extended to their descendants world and ancestors’world.
Conclusion: As the informants recognized slugged body movements and time-limited present life, their views on their life world towards the future of spring and of the sacred world of ancestors. Thereby, their identity as a member of a clan was reinforced. The results informed us on what we should focus on caring with older.
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KeyWords
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공간행동, 노화, 민족지
Proxemics, Aging, Ethnography
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원문 및 링크아웃 정보
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등재저널 정보
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