The Sociology of Space Materiality, Social Structures, and Action
In this book, the author develops a relational concept of space that encompasses social structure, the material world of objects and bodies, and the symbolic dimension of the social world. Löw’s guiding principle is the assumption that space emerges in th
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The Sociology of Space Materiality, Social Structures, and Action
Martina Löw
Cultural Sociology Series Editors Jeffrey C. Alexander Center for Cultural Sociology Yale University New Haven, Connecticut, USA Ron Eyerman Center for Cultural Sociology Yale University New Haven, Connecticut, USA David Inglis Department of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology University of Aberdeen Exeter, Aberdeenshire, UK Philip Smith Center for Cultural Sociology Yale University New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Cultural sociology is widely acknowledged as one of the most vibrant areas of inquiry in the social sciences across the world today. The Palgrave Macmillan Series in Cultural Sociology is dedicated to the proposition that deep meanings make a profound difference in social life. Culture is not simply the glue that holds society together, a crutch for the weak, or a mystifying ideology that conceals power. Nor is it just practical knowledge, dry schemas, or know how. The series demonstrates how shared and circulating patterns of meaning actively and inescapably penetrate the social. Through codes and myths, narratives and icons, rituals and representations, these culture structures drive human action, inspire social movements, direct and build institutions, and so come to shape history. The series takes its lead from the cultural turn in the humanities, but insists on rigorous social science methods and aims at empirical explanations. Contributions engage in thick interpretations but also account for behavioral outcomes. They develop cultural theory but also deploy middle-range tools to challenge reductionist understandings of how the world actually works. In so doing, the books in this series embody the spirit of cultural sociology as an intellectual enterprise.
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Martina Löw
The Sociology of Space Materiality, Social Structures, and Action Translated from the German by Donald Goodwin
Martina Löw Sociology, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany Translated from the German by Donald Goodwin
Cultural Sociology ISBN 978-1-137-48771-1 ISBN 978-1-349-69568-3 DOI 10.1057/978-1-349-69568-3
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2016945135 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016 The translation of this work was funded by Geisteswissenschaften International – Translation Funding for Humanities and Social Sciences from Germany, a joint initiative of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, the German Federal Foreign Office, the collecting society VG WORT and the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels (German Publishers & Booksellers Association). This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer softw
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