ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the critical strand of research on acceptability proposes then that we should move from seeing acceptability as the normative goal, to examining it for socio-ecological justice and equity, while considering the socio historical, cultural, ideological, spatial and psychosocial embeddedness, at different scales of acceptability. The concept of an affordance was developed by the perceptual psychologist James Gibson, based on earlier proposals in Gestalt psychology. Aggression is a purposeful, destructive and offensive behavior that transgresses social norms and community laws, damages animate and inanimate objects and physically or mentally harms individuals. The reading grid represented by the anchoring is, thus, based on a substrate of presuppositions which is built in the relationship between the individual and his socio physical environment. Annoyance is a sensation that arises from the interpretation of unpleasant information to which the individual is exposed and which disturbs his situational comfort.
