The increasing levels of mobility, which encompass globalization, migrations, tourism, media and technologies have implied a redefinition of space as a frame for social action. In the sociological debate there are two prevailing notions of space: on the one hand there is the physical space, geometric, material, which equates the space with the place; on the other the social space, abstract, immaterial, which is strictly related to the space of interaction. Classical sociology has unified both the notions, focusing on the analysis of social interactions within a specific place (face-to-face model). Though, the identification of social and physical space is now overcome on different issues: 1)a shared, physical space does not entail a social space (Augé, “Non-places”); 2) on the contrary, a not shared physical space, does not necessarily entail the lack of a social space (Meyrowitz, “no sense of place”). These opposite processes imply the “dematerialization” of space, as a consequence of mobility (Urry “new mobilities paradigm”; Castells, “space of flows”) and, as a consequence, the redefinition of social action: should people live without boundaries? Are there new boundaries emerging (the space of local; the space of culture)?

Space, mobility and new boundaries: The redefinition of social action / Marchetti, Maria Cristina. - STAMPA. - (2011), pp. 17-30.

Space, mobility and new boundaries: The redefinition of social action

MARCHETTI, Maria Cristina
2011

Abstract

The increasing levels of mobility, which encompass globalization, migrations, tourism, media and technologies have implied a redefinition of space as a frame for social action. In the sociological debate there are two prevailing notions of space: on the one hand there is the physical space, geometric, material, which equates the space with the place; on the other the social space, abstract, immaterial, which is strictly related to the space of interaction. Classical sociology has unified both the notions, focusing on the analysis of social interactions within a specific place (face-to-face model). Though, the identification of social and physical space is now overcome on different issues: 1)a shared, physical space does not entail a social space (Augé, “Non-places”); 2) on the contrary, a not shared physical space, does not necessarily entail the lack of a social space (Meyrowitz, “no sense of place”). These opposite processes imply the “dematerialization” of space, as a consequence of mobility (Urry “new mobilities paradigm”; Castells, “space of flows”) and, as a consequence, the redefinition of social action: should people live without boundaries? Are there new boundaries emerging (the space of local; the space of culture)?
2011
The Politics of Proximity: Mobility and Immobility in Practice
9780754677666
proximity; space; mobility
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Space, mobility and new boundaries: The redefinition of social action / Marchetti, Maria Cristina. - STAMPA. - (2011), pp. 17-30.
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