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Mummy Blogs and Representations of Motherhood: “Bad Mummies” and Their Readers Open
Digital technologies have opened up new environments in which the experiences of motherhood and mothering are narrated and negotiated. Studies of “mummy blogs” have explored the ways in which blogs, as social media networks, can provide so…
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Bourdieu Comes to Town: Pertinence, Principles, Applications Open
This article frames the themes of the two‐part Interventions section ‘Bourdieu Comes to Town’. I first establish the pertinence of Bourdieu's sociology for students of the city by revisiting his youthful work on power, space, and the diffu…
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Quantifying segregation in an integrated urban physical-social space Open
Our knowledge of how cities bring together different social classes is still limited. Much effort has been devoted to investigating residential segregation, mostly over well-defined social groups (e.g. race). Little is known of how mobilit…
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Beyond Space: Spatial (Re)Production and Middle‐Class Remaking Driven by Jiaoyufication in Nanjing City, China Open
An extension of gentrification, jiaoyufication –urban change driven by a desire for high‐quality education–is not only displacing previous lower‐class residents, but also replacing earlier jiaoyufiers with newcomers, turning formerly blue‐…
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Encounters in Public Space: How Acquainted Versus Unacquainted Persons Establish Social and Spatial Arrangements Open
This article studies how people enter into interaction in public space by examining casual encounters initiated either by strangers or acquainted persons. It contributes to the study of openings of interactions in public space from a conve…
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Mediatization of Social Space and the Case of Uber Drivers Open
Digital data have become a form of “objectivation”, which affect how we construct social knowledge and organize social space (Couldry & Hepp, 2017). The workplace is one sphere that is increasingly datafied. This study explores how Uber dr…
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The Geographies of Fashion: Consumption, Space, and Value Open
Clothes are inherently geographical objects, yet few of us consider the social and economic significance of their journey from design to production to consumption. The Geographies of Fashion is the first in-depth study of fashion economies…
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Understanding Data-Driven Cyber-Physical-Social System (D-CPSS) Using a 7C Framework in Social Manufacturing Context Open
The trend towards socialization, personalization and servitization in smart manufacturing has attracted the attention of researchers, practitioners and governments. Social manufacturing is a novel manufacturing paradigm responding to this …
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Neural correlates of social and non-social personal space intrusions: Role of defensive and peripersonal space systems in interpersonal distance regulation Open
Personal space regulation ensures the maintenance of a margin of safety between the individual and the surrounding world. However, little is known about the specific neural mechanisms implicated in regulating the distance from conspecifics…
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Compact Urban Form: Neighbouring and Social Activity Open
Compact urban form has been widely suggested as a more sustainable development pattern that enhances different aspects of social liveability such as social exchange, collective interaction, and outdoor activity. Empirical research, however…
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The Link Between Ethnic Segregation and Socio‐Economic Status: An Activity Space Approach Open
The extent to which ethnic segregation results from differences in socio‐economic factors remains a seminal topic of debate. The growing literature demonstrating the multifaceted phenomenon of segregation urges more focus on individuals’ s…
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Retooling the public library as social infrastructure: a Dutch illustration Open
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Social Identity in Serious Sport Event Space Open
Sport events offer valuable experiences in distinctive settings, and serve as settings for social identity formation. Drawing on the literature from a range of disciplines, events characteristics are seen to provide spaces for the cocreati…
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Understanding the Design Space of AI-Mediated Social Interaction in Online Learning: Challenges and Opportunities Open
Our online interactions are constantly mediated through Artificial Intelligence (AI), especially our social interactions. AI-mediated social interaction is the AI-facilitated process of building and maintaining social connections between i…
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Effect of Space Configurational Attributes on Social Interactions in Urban Parks Open
Urban parks are one of the most common spaces for social interactions in modern cities. The design of park spaces, especially space configuration, has significant influences on people’s social behaviors in parks. In this study, the associa…
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Personal space increases during the COVID-19 pandemic in response to real and virtual humans Open
Personal space is the distance that people tend to maintain from others during daily life in a largely unconscious manner. For humans, personal space-related behaviors represent one form of non-verbal social communication, similar to facia…
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Multilevel social spaces: The network dynamics of organizational fields Open
In this paper, we seek to advance an updated concept of social space that integrates the multilayer and dynamic statistical network methods currently at the disposal of social network researchers. We demonstrate the analytic value of the n…
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Making space for ‘the social’: connecting sociology and professional practices in urban lighting design Open
Lighting is increasingly recognized as a significant social intervention by both lighting professionals and academic social scientists. However, what counts as ‘the social’ is diverse and contested, with consequences for what kind of ‘soci…
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Market men and station women: changing significations of gendered space in Accra, Ghana Open
It is impossible to understand the gendered relation between women and public space without taking into account its other, that is, male engagements with and in space. Our joint paper contrasts the public spaces of a market and a bus stati…
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Seeking the Indian Social Space Open
This article takes as its specific starting point the idea that the Indian society constitutes a relational space, marked by the interdependency of various sub-spaces. It more precisely aims at producing a synthetic representation of the I…
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The space of social movements Open
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Ship as a Social Space for Adaptation: Perception of the Phenomenon by Young Seafarers Open
Training of seafarers is traditionally focusing merely on the ‘occupational’ aspect. Competent seafarers have always been defined as people who have good professional, navigational or engineering skills. However, practice shows that these …
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Facilitating Peer Interaction Regulation in Online Settings: The Role of Social Presence, Social Space and Sociability Open
A plethora of studies stress students’ self-regulated learning (SRL) skills to be conditional for successful learning in school and beyond. In general, self-regulated learners are actively engaged in constructing their own understanding al…
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Evolution of Fashion as Play in the Digital Space Open
This article focuses on the phenomenon in which fashion functions as play in digital media. It delves deeper than fashion's functional purposes of decoration or physical protection and examines its emergence as an independent tool for crea…
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The Relationship between Ethno-Linguistic Composition of Social Networks and Activity Space: A Study Using Mobile Phone Data Open
This study is a contribution to the discussion on the ethnic segregation cycle, through the examination of individuals’ activity spaces—including residence and workplace—and from the perspective of social networks. Bridging social ties can…
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A Justified Plan Graph Analysis of Social Housing in Mexico (1974–2019): Spatial Transformations and Social Implications Open
Space Syntax researchers have asserted that the spatial configuration of the planning of a work of architecture, such as a house, reflects how social properties are inscribed in its design. In social housing, the social inscriptions throug…
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History Teaching as ‘Propaganda’? Teachers’ Communication Styles in Post-Transition Societies Open
This paper analyses history teaching through the lens of communication styles – dissemination, propagation, and propaganda – as proposed by Social Representation Theory. We view a history classroom as a communicative space and history teac…
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Genesis of sociology of media space Open
Sociology of media space is a new and still developing branch of sociology, just like sociology of space - a basic branch of sociological knowledge. Sociology of space focuses on natural space as a framework for the development of social c…
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Pandemic - Catalyst of the Virtualization of the Social Space Open
There are a number of contemporary cosmogonic theories, which we would introduce into what we have called quantum metaphysics, which holds that the current world we live in is actually a simulation. Technological globalization can be analy…
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Space and rank: infants expect agents in higher position to be socially dominant Open
Social hierarchies exist throughout the animal kingdom, including among humans. Our daily interactions inevitably reflect social dominance relationships between individuals. How do we mentally represent such concepts? Studies show that soc…