Action setting

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In [[Benno Werlen]]s work the '''Action setting''' (or [[Locale]]) denotes a spatial context of action, as a setting for action. It is constituted by material elements as well as by sets of social norms and culturally shared values, these should also be understood as material, socio-economic and socio-cultural constellation of action with intersubjective shared meaning contents. Therefore, it is an action-related concept that cannot be turned into an objective fact or a generalized as a social category, having the same meaning for members of a society (in a certain region). Setting is not just a physical containment of social interaction of a spatial parameter. It has rather to be understood as an element of an inherent part of interaction that is mobilized. '''Example''' According to Werlen (2009), a house is used as an example. We can only call a locale a 'house' if we observe that this material context is treated like a house and has the furnishings for living. A locale can almost be everything: a house, a street corner, a city or the territory of a state. "The determination that a constellation is a 'locale/setting' does not depend on the size or spatial dimensions, but rahter from the way in which actions are carried out" (Werlen, 2009, p.51). == References == Werlen, B. (2009). Structurationist Geography, Elsevier == Contributers == Published by --[[User:CasparEngelen|CasparEngelen]] 20:45, 17 December 2011 (CET) & Natasja van Lieshout Edited bij Anke Janssen

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