乡村性是乡村地理学研究的重要内容,是综合反映乡村发展水平、揭示乡村内部差异、识别乡村地域空间的重要指标。本文通过对国内外现有研究成果分析,深入剖析乡村性的研究进展,从概念内涵、研究方法、尺度关联和应用层面方面进行系统总结与评价。在此基础上提出未来乡村性研究的重点方面,主要集中在乡村性概念的模型构建、微观尺度的分析、社会化的转向和时空过程研究等。加强乡村性的研究有利于拓展乡村地理的研究视角,丰富乡村地理学在乡村性研究的深层次内涵,有助于更深入破解乡村发展的内在机理,也为城乡一体化发展提供理论指导和技术支撑。

Rurality is an important indicator which reflects rural development, reveals its internal difference and measures rural area space. The degree of rurality is the representing evidence of rural regional type differentiation and reflects the multifunctional evolutional tendency of urban-rural space profoundly. What constitutes development and how it should be measured is a very important question. The multifunctional social needs of rural area and building the long-term mechanism and pathway of urban-rural integration development is not only the objective needs of social transition period but the scientific proposition of geographical science improving the rural areal system theory. This paper reveals relevant literatures, analysis of rural research progress and related basic theory and methods deeply; analysis the concept connotation, research methods, and applications associated with scale level. From the relevant literatures, a symptom of the current introspective moment in rural geography has been the creeping back into discussions of questions about the definition and conceptualization of rurality. Based on this, we propose a model concept and research framework, which contains the attribute dimension, the time dimension, and the spatial dimension, tries to reveal the evolution of the concept and connotation of the rurality. On the basis of key aspects of rural studies summarize the main steering and temporal aspects of research in the process of analyzing the microscopic scale, the town, village scale, fully consider the particularity of the rural development and gradation, analysis the rural characteristics of the scales, build rurality space-time evolution patterns of different regions, exploring the inner relation and mechanism of the model. It is expected to break the macro analysis of the technology and method of bottleneck, deepen the related empirical study, in the integration of urban and rural development under the situation of rural reconstruction space system. Then, socialization needs to be strengthened, more intensive and diversified social science rural research despite the continual urban cosmopolitanism and globalism of advanced societies.