Sociology of space

Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Berlin, Germany. The use of space emphasis the depth of loss from the holocaust genocide.
Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Berlin, Germany. The use of space emphasises the depth of loss from the holocaust genocide.

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, and feminist geography. The "sociology" of space examines the social and material constitution of spaces. It is concerned with understanding 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 Studies, and overlaps and encompasses theorists with various academic disciplines such as geography and architecture. Edward T. Hall developed the study of Proxemics which concentrates on the empirical analysis of space in psychology.


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