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The Sociology of Space

Part of the Cultural Sociology Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/978-1-349-69568-3

ISBN: 978-1-137-48771-1

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Sep 10, 2016

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Chapter 1Why Should Sociology Concern Itself with Space?

Löw, Martina

Pages: 1 –7

[The first chapter is an introduction to the argumentation in the book. In contrast to other disciplines, sociology is slow to accept the concept of space as a possible basic concept for its work. The author sees the conscious rejection of patterns of argumentation in terms of territorial...
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Chapter 2Notions of Space in Context

Löw, Martina

Pages: 9 –53

[The second chapter treats the theoretical models behind the present-day use of the concept of space. In contrast to other sociological concepts, the discussion of adequate concepts of space is dominated by physical thought. With a view to the contrast between absolutist and relativist ideas of...
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Chapter 3Changes in Spatial Phenomena

Löw, Martina

Pages: 55 –103

[Based on empirical studies, the third chapter shows that in the second half of the twentieth century, the relation of human beings to spaces and the ordering of the world by means of spaces have undergone fundamental change. Children no longer experience space as enveloping, but rather are...
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Chapter 4Toward a Sociological Concept of Space

Löw, Martina

Pages: 105 –127

[The fourth chapter critically reflects on selected relativist concepts of space. Works by Emile Durkheim, Norbert Elias, Michel Foucault, Elisabeth Ströker, Niklas Luhmann, and others are presented as approaches to a processual treatment of the constitution of space. The author demonstrates that...
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Chapter 5The Constitution of Space

Löw, Martina

Pages: 129 –195

[Space is introduced here as a relational arrangement of social goods and living beings at places. Space emerges in the interplay of action and structure, through the processes of spacing and acts of synthesis. Spacing describes the placing of human beings, social goods, and cultural signs for...
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Chapter 6Exemplary Analyses

Löw, Martina

Pages: 197 –223

[This chapter presents secondary analyses of empirical studies, demonstrating that the significance of many social actions can be better understood using Löw’s relational theory of space. The competence of working-class boys to develop a proletarian counterculture at school by means of space...
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Chapter 7Foundations of a Sociology of Space—Summary

Löw, Martina

Pages: 225 –233

[This chapter offers an outline of the core principles of Löw’s sociology of space. Special attention is paid to the fact that spatial structures as well as temporal structures are forms of social structure. Spaces generate distributions which, in a hierarchically organized society, are generally...

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