Syndetics cover image
Image from Syndetics

The Sociology of Space : Materiality, Social Structures, and Action.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (321 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781349695683
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 304.23
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Series Editors' Preface -- Preface to the English Edition -- The Spatial Turn as a Marker of a Social Transformation -- Space as a Form of Relationship -- Places and Boundaries -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Why Should Sociology Concern Itself with Space? -- Chapter 2: Notions of Space in Context -- 2.1 Absolutist and Relativist Notions of Space -- 2.2 Sociology of Space -- 2.2.1 Giddens, Hägerstrand, and the Power Container -- 2.2.2 Urban Sociology Without Space -- 2.2.3 Simmel and Form -- 2.3 First Interim Conclusion -- Chapter 3: Changes in Spatial Phenomena -- 3.1 Space in Processes of Education and Socialization -- 3.1.1 Insularized Socialization -- 3.1.2 Spatial Imagination and Gender -- 3.2 Virtual Spaces -- 3.3 Globalization and Global Cities -- 3.4 Second Interim Conclusion -- 3.5 The Test Case: Body Spaces -- Chapter 4: Toward a Sociological Concept of Space -- Chapter 5: The Constitution of Space -- 5.1 The Bodies of the Constitution of Space -- 5.2 The Development of Space in Interaction Between Action and Structures -- 5.2.1 Spacing and the Operation of Synthesis -- 5.2.2 Repetitiveness of Everyday Life -- 5.2.3 Spatial Structures -- 5.2.4 Gender and Class -- Excursus: Bourdieu and Space -- 5.2.5 Deviation and Change -- 5.2.6 Symbolism and Materiality -- 5.2.7 Perception -- 5.3 Localization of Spaces at Places -- 5.4 The Visibility of the Invisibility of Space -- 5.5 Space and Social Inequality -- 5.6 Methodological Consequences -- 5.7 Summary View of the Constitution of Space -- Chapter 6: Exemplary Analyses -- 6.1 Countercultural School Spaces -- 6.2 Gender-Specific Spaces -- 6.3 Urban Spaces -- Chapter 7: Foundations of a Sociology of Space-Summary -- 7.1 Social Changes -- 7.2 Sociological Ideas of Space -- 7.3 Sociology of Space in Eight Theses -- References -- Index.
No physical items for this record

Intro -- Series Editors' Preface -- Preface to the English Edition -- The Spatial Turn as a Marker of a Social Transformation -- Space as a Form of Relationship -- Places and Boundaries -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Why Should Sociology Concern Itself with Space? -- Chapter 2: Notions of Space in Context -- 2.1 Absolutist and Relativist Notions of Space -- 2.2 Sociology of Space -- 2.2.1 Giddens, Hägerstrand, and the Power Container -- 2.2.2 Urban Sociology Without Space -- 2.2.3 Simmel and Form -- 2.3 First Interim Conclusion -- Chapter 3: Changes in Spatial Phenomena -- 3.1 Space in Processes of Education and Socialization -- 3.1.1 Insularized Socialization -- 3.1.2 Spatial Imagination and Gender -- 3.2 Virtual Spaces -- 3.3 Globalization and Global Cities -- 3.4 Second Interim Conclusion -- 3.5 The Test Case: Body Spaces -- Chapter 4: Toward a Sociological Concept of Space -- Chapter 5: The Constitution of Space -- 5.1 The Bodies of the Constitution of Space -- 5.2 The Development of Space in Interaction Between Action and Structures -- 5.2.1 Spacing and the Operation of Synthesis -- 5.2.2 Repetitiveness of Everyday Life -- 5.2.3 Spatial Structures -- 5.2.4 Gender and Class -- Excursus: Bourdieu and Space -- 5.2.5 Deviation and Change -- 5.2.6 Symbolism and Materiality -- 5.2.7 Perception -- 5.3 Localization of Spaces at Places -- 5.4 The Visibility of the Invisibility of Space -- 5.5 Space and Social Inequality -- 5.6 Methodological Consequences -- 5.7 Summary View of the Constitution of Space -- Chapter 6: Exemplary Analyses -- 6.1 Countercultural School Spaces -- 6.2 Gender-Specific Spaces -- 6.3 Urban Spaces -- Chapter 7: Foundations of a Sociology of Space-Summary -- 7.1 Social Changes -- 7.2 Sociological Ideas of Space -- 7.3 Sociology of Space in Eight Theses -- References -- Index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2025. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

Licensed e-book