sociotope
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English
Etymology
socio- + -tope; compare German Soziotop.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsəʊʃiə(ʊ)ˌtəʊp/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsoʊʃiəˌtoʊp/, /ˈsoʊʃioʊˌtoʊp/
Noun
sociotope (plural sociotopes)
- A geographical area that has a uniform social environment.
- 1993, Johan Galtung, “Development Theory”, in David Rothenberg, Peter Reed, editors, Wisdom in the Open Air:The Norwegian Roots of Deep Ecology, page 202:
- Let us further assume a Chinese boxes logic again: the world space is an extremely rich sociotope, in interaction so far with no other sociotope, and all the others are nested within.
- 2006, Alexander Ståhle, “Sociotope mapping – exploring public open space and its multiple use values in urban and landscape planning practice”, in Nordic Journal of Architectural Research, volume 19, number 4, page 63:
- The Leisure and Nature Administration at the municipality initiated a sociotope mapping project to collect knowledge in the open space use values.