The Anatomy of Neighbour Relations

Relations between neighbours represent informal social relations that constitute a part of everyday life for virtually all individuals in contemporary urban societies. While aspects neighbour have been studied connection with research on local communities, gentrification, and neighbourhood effects, little focusing specifically interactions has conducted theoretical reflection the central concepts remains lacking. This article attempts to fill this gap by developing framework sociological understanding investigation relations. The material used consists previous studies method task was analysis coupled reasoning based review synthesis relevant research. Familiar like ‘neighbour’, ‘neighbouring’, ‘neighbourliness’ are scrutinised, deconstructed, redefined, noting there often two perspectives each: experiences residents those outside observers. Various discussed, including as an acquaintance relation, basis community, cultural content role. A model levels neighbourly interaction is presented.