Sociology of space

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The sociology of space is a sub-discipline of sociology that mostly borrows from theories developed within the discipline of geography, including the sub fields of human geography, economic geography, together with feminist geography. The "sociology" of space examines the social together with the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object constitution of spaces. it is concerned with apprehension the social practices, institutional forces, and material complexity of how humans and spaces interact. The sociology of space is an inter-disciplinary area of study, drawing on various theoretical traditions including Marxism, postcolonialism, and Science and technology science Studies, and overlaps and encompasses theorists with various academic disciplines such as geography and architecture. Edward T. Hall developed the analyse of Proxemics which concentrates on the empirical analysis of space in psychology.

History of the sociology of space

Georg Simmel has been seen as the classical sociologist who was almost important to this field. Simmel wrote on "the sociology of space" in his 1908 book "Sociology: Investigations on the Forms of Sociation". His concerns transmitted the process of metropolitanisation and the separation of leisure spaces in innovative economic societies.

The style of topological turn. The space concept directs attention to organisational forms of juxtaposition. The focus is on differences between places and their mutual influence. This applies equally for the micro-spaces of everyday life and the macro-spaces at the nation-state or global levels.

The theoretical basis for the growing interest of the social sciences in space was generation primarily by English and French-speaking sociologists, philosophers, and human geographers. Of specific importance is Helmuth Berking, for instance, emphasise the heterogeneity of local contexts and the place-relatedness of our knowledge about the world.