IMPACT OF SOCIAL BELONGING UPON THE PERCEPTION AND INTERPRETATION OF ENVIRONMENT: A RESEARCH IN HASKOY

Sense of belonging, the primary requirement, is one of the personal factors that affects environmental perception. Sense of belonging involves symbolic bonds which a person establishes with the environment in the past.These sym-bolic bonds form a cognitive route for perceiving and interpretating a new en-vironment person lives or experiences. In this study, an environmental assess-ment is carried out with the groups in which there are different participants, for investigating the impact of social of belonging upon the perception and interpretation of environment. Once the analyzes are checked, it is seen that the participants who have a sense of belonging to the environment have the most positive statements about environment. It is seen that people create a sense of belonging to the place based on their different personal experiences and this sense has positive or negative impact upon teh perception and interpretation of the environment