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the social organization of space: class, cognition, and residence in a Spanish town
Author(s) -
GILMORE DAVID
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.1977.4.3.02a00030
Subject(s) - residence , sociocultural evolution , sociology , politics , social stratification , social class , space (punctuation) , stratification (seeds) , polarization (electrochemistry) , class (philosophy) , social organization , geography , cognitive map , social space , economic geography , cognition , ecology , anthropology , social science , psychology , epistemology , political science , demography , biology , philosophy , chemistry , law , linguistics , germination , seed dormancy , botany , neuroscience , dormancy
This paper examines the role of social class in the spatial ecology and cognitive culture of a Spanish farming town. It argues that the geographical orientations of the townsmen are a projection of a tripartite class model and that this projection reifies social cleavages, limits mobility, and intensifies cultural polarization in the community. The sociocultural and political implications of these findings for the general study of stratification are briefly discussed.