Talk:Sociology of space

I have no idea what this article is saying. I'd like to think that I am a pretty smart and logical person, but I really do not understand. 128.125.19.217 (talk) 02:12, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

Perhaps a broader explanation on the study of space and place in terms of meaning to people would help. The fact that "place" is a human defined notion and so is very often defined by the human philosophy or psychology. The other thing that is missing in the personal and public memory of a place. In our critical studies classes they mentioned how place is redefined for the notion of replacing the origional (normally darker) history. We used the new Constitutional Court in Johannesburg that was built on the site of the old prision, thus "taking ownership" of the space and building new meaning to this place. - Jeffrey K. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.151.30.31 (talk) 07:25, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

I would consider renaming this page to "the study of space." Gibson-Graham are economic geographers, same with Massey, Thrift, David Harvey, and Soja. Geographers rarely refer to space in terms of the "sociology of space." Lefebvre is one of the only "sociologists," although I would consider him a geographer by many accounts. Simmel may have coined the term, but geographers are the ones who mostly engage with this work. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.65.57.148 (talk • contribs) 02:10, 9 June 2014


 * It is obvious that this article mainly reflects the stance of the sociology of space developed at the TU Darmstadt, citing some sociologists barely known even in the German context. They have more or less established the perspective that "sociology of space" is a valid subfield of sociology, not least via the publication of two textbooks. However, I'm skeptical as well. What is intriguing is that, while the Anglophone "study of space" is the result of many collaborations between sociologists and geographers (if such a distinction is even made), the works of Löw and Berking are more or less based on an academic island, which is quite ironical given its topical context. Nevertheless, I'd still prefer the current article title over some artificial construction that might reflect its content better (such as "considerations of space withing social thought" or something), while "study of space" could be confused with space research. --Axolotl Nr.733 (talk) 13:09, 22 November 2014 (UTC)