在准确把握新时期农村发展形势的背景下，基于当前农村聚居模式研究的理论与实践意义，构建了由农村聚居模式研究理论与方法体系、农村聚居模式的类型、农村聚居模式的功能与结构、农村聚居模式的发展过程与机理、农村聚居模式的调控与优化等五个方面组成的农村聚居模式研究框架体系，探索了从人地共生、城乡统筹、地域协调、社会和谐等不同视角对农村聚居模式进行研究的总体思路，提出了从地理学方法的应用与创新、多学科方法的融贯综合等两个方面对农村聚居模式研究方法体系进行完善的建议。

With the growing disparties between urban and rural areas, "three rural issues" have become an urgent strategic issue in China, and new socialist countryside construction is being conducted. Rural settlement pattern research is an important part of the new rural construction pattern, it will provide an important theoretical basis for effectively improving the rural living environment,and for new rural construction planning. The innovation of rural settlement pattern is an effective way of mitigating the "rural disease" and promoting rural development, and is also one of the keys of promoting the organic convergence of urban and rural settlements and realizing the harmonious development of urban and rural societies. From an academic point of view, improving of the study content-framework, perspective and methods of the rural settlement patternt is conducive to development of the theories and methods on rural settlement geography, and also conducive to the rural geography. This article holds that, as an important subject of rural settlement geography, rural settlement pattern research should be standing in geographical developmental environment, basing on the new human-land relationship, integrating the theories and methods of ecology, economics, environmental studies, behavioral science and sociology, and should set up a symbiosis of human-land，co-ordination of urban and rural development, regional coordination and harmonious society, forming harmonies between human and nature, human demands and settlement functions, and urban and rural settlements, focusing on settlement form, settlement structure, settlement process and mechanism, comprehensively studying reserch theories and methods, classification and developmental process and mechanism.