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- Sociology of architecture or architectural sociology is a sub-field of sociology that focuses on societal functioning and relations based on their built environment and architecture. Using systematic and analytic methods, it puts into perspective the concepts of spatial relations, architecture’s influence on relations, behaviours of humans.
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Sociology of architecture is the sociological study of the built environment and the role and occupation of architects in modern societies. Architecture is basically constituted of the aesthetic, the engineering and the social aspects.
Sociology, by now a heavily contested and increasingly fragmented disciplinary label, is used here as a proxy for a critical approach to the connections between the architectural field, political power, and the construction, maintenance and mobilization of collective identities.
Through engagement with a range of illustrative examples from contested contemporary and historical architectural projects, Paul Jones analyses some of the ways in which architects have sought to position their architecture relative to state projects and wider publics.
- Paul Jones
- 2011
A central contention of The Sociology of Architecture is that the application of a critical ‘sociological imagination’ (Wright-Mills 1959) to architects and their work is one way in which the tensions associated with the political mobilization of culture can be revealed.
This book illuminates sociology's contribution to the understanding of architecture. It examines architecture as a form of cultural production and the ways in which architectural production is implicated in wider social relations.
sociological study of architecture The sociology of architecture is defined as the scientific analysis of social behavior and social patterns in relation to space and constructed environments. The field en-compasses the study of environments ranging from the macro to the micro, from the magnitude in size of modern
