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(2016) The sociology of space, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
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 constitution is presented. The claim that girls have reduced opportunities to acquire space because they have a smaller urban radius of action is challenged. Finally, through a critical analysis of Gerhard Schulze's proposal to differentiate between the constitution of space as 'surroundings," "zones neutral to the milieu," and 'sceneries," problem areas for future research projects in urban sociology are outlined. In general, processes of space constitution become manifest that cannot be understood in a territorial logic or exclusively by way of localization.
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DOI: 10.1057/978-1-349-69568-3_6
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Löw, M. (2016). Exemplary analyses, in The sociology of space, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 197-223.
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