Raumsoziologie

The significance of space has changed: through cyberspace technologies, high-speed transportation, real-time transmission of information to nearly every corner of the world, and through a fragmentation of living environments. This compels the social sciences to rethink their concepts of space. In her standard work, Martina Löw develops a comprehensive sociology of space based on empirical studies and interdisciplinary theoretical reflections on space. With her concept of the duality of space, she demonstrates how spatial arrangements gain an objectified social validity through institutionalizations and a subjective stabilization through habitualizations. She also explores how inclusions and exclusions are organized through space.