Action setting

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In Benno Werlens 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).


References

Werlen, B. (2009). Structurationist Geography, Elsevier


Published by --CasparEngelen 20:45, 17 December 2011 (CET) & Natasja van Lieshout

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