Application of Cartographic Modelling as a research method when monitoring the spatial behaviour of population

• Published in: Социология: теория, методы, маркетинг
• Date: 2015
• Main Author: Pribytkova, I.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Iнститут соціології НАН України 2015
• Online Access: https://nasplib.isofts.kiev.ua/handle/123456789/115283
• Journal Title: Digital Library of Periodicals of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
• Cite this: Application of Cartographic Modelling as a research method when monitoring the spatial behaviour of population / I. Pribytkova // Социология: теория, методы, маркетинг. — 2015. — № 3. — С. 153-165. — Бібліогр.: 4 назв. — англ.

There is presented the cartographical modeling as efficient method to monitor the spatial 
 behaviour of population. The author examines the common notion of a method, the
 cognition properties of cartographical models and necessary methodical premises to
 ensure an adequate representation of essential features of the population’s spatial
 behaviour or other investigated phenomena (processes, structures). In the author’s
 opinion the cartographical modeling may be regarded as one of the modifications of
 latent structure analysis which is able to reveal and distinguish the latent groups of
 population with peculiar social organization, material and cultural consumption, goals,
 preferences and behaviour. There are demonstrated the cartographical models of spatial 
 disposition of rural population in able-bodied age in Ukraine which give a clear view of
 the geographical location of rural inhabitants and their concentration or dispersion in
 certain regions of countryside. These models discover the important spatial relations
 between movements of rural inhabitants and urbanization in Uk raine. Comparing these
 models we come to the conclusion that concentration of urban and concentration of rural 
 population within the bounds of the Ukraine are two sides of one and the same process of
 urbanization. In this process, towns and cities perform the duties of peculiar nuclei for
 crystallization of new socio-spatial structures of rural resettling. The demographic
 consequences of spatial self-organization of country people are highly various, closely
 tied and are displayed first of all in different types of dynamics. With a view
 to investigate the types of population changes in the country side of Ukraine in
 1970–1978 — in a moment when the demographic transition was over — the author
 elaborated the cartograms with types of rural population dynamics after J. W. Webb’s
 model. It is obvious that the depopulation and migratory losses brought about the
 irreparable consequences for rural population practically in all regions of Ukraine.