Title:	Geographical Sociology Theoretical Foundations and Methodological Applications in the Sociology of Location
Authors:	Porter, Jeremy R. Frank M. Howell
Keywords:	Geographical Sociology
Issue Date:	2012
Publisher:	Springer
Description:	Recently, increased attention has been given to the relationship between geographic context and the ecological settings in which social process and behaviors of both groups and individuals occur. This focus has been inherently geographic in its focus on concepts associated with such examples as individuals being situated within a neighborhood or populations in proximity to a natural disaster. We argue in this book that while the methodological tools for such analyses are relatively new in their development, spatial thinking has long been at the core of much of the traditional sociological theory that marks the foundations of the discipline. Together, these theoretical foundations, coupled with the more recent methodological ability to put “people into place”, makeup an emerging movement towards a geogra phically focused sociology. In its most generic form, and on the tail of a recent p ublication (Porter 2011 ) , geo-sociology should be viewed as a synergy between ecologicallycentered macro theory and the application of spatially-centered research methods in the examination of sociological questions. This informal defi nition is useful in the sense that it identifi es the role of geo-sociology, in both practice and principle s, and in regards to the complimentary role that theory and research play within its developmental framework.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/20161
ISBN:	978-94-007-3849-2
Appears in Collections:	Gender

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