Reflecting the revival of interest in a social theory that takes
place and space seriously, this book focuses on geographical place
in the practice of social science and history. There is significant
interest among scholars from a range of disciplines in bringing
together the geographical and sociological 'imaginations'. The
geographical imagination is a concrete and descriptive one,
concerned with determining the nature of places, and classifying
them and the links between them. The sociological imagination
aspires to explanation of human activities in terms of abstract
social processes. The chapters in this book focus on both the
intellectual histories of the concept of place and on its empirical
uses. They show that place is as important for understanding
contemporary America as it is for 18th-century Sri Lanka. They also
show how the concept can provide insight into 'old' problems such
as the nature of social life in Renaissance Florence and Venice.
The editors are leading exponents of the view of place as a concept
that can 'mediate' the geographical and sociological imaginations.
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