Sociability and community

From Geography

'Sociability and community' is one of the four aspects of 'social action', distinguished by Nigel Thrift. This is an important component of contextual regional geography. According to Werlen (2009) "this field of research concentrates on the relationship between 'sense of community' and 'sense of place'. The spatial pattern of the social arguably finds its expression in the rural, urban, or regional community. It is the symbolic reference to place here, to spatial context complete with physical attributes, which reinforces the sense of community and determines on which of those three levels – rural, urban, or regional – the sense of community finds its strongest expression. (p.6). An example of a research project regarding this issue, could be a research project to the forming of the Chinese Wall. The Chinese Wall was built to protect China from enemies invading the country. Howeve, what has been the role of the Chinese identity, the sense of belonging to the Chinese people and the sense of being a habitant of China in building the Chinese Wall?

References

• Werlen, B. (2009). Everyday Regionalizations. In: International Encyclopedia for Human Geography. Elsevier.

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