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sociotope

UK/ˈsəʊʃiə(ʊ)ˌtəʊp/US/ˈsoʊʃiəˌtoʊp/

sociotope noun: a geographical area that has a uniform social environment.

Noun

sociotope (plural sociotopes)

  1. A geographical area that has a uniform social environment.
    • 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.1993, Johan Galtung, “Development Theory”, in David Rothenberg, Peter Reed, editors, Wisdom in the Open Air:The Norwegian Roots of Deep Ecology, page 202
    • The Leisure and Nature Administration at the municipality initiated a sociotope mapping project to collect knowledge in the open space use values.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...

Forms of sociotope

pluralsociotopes

Origin of sociotope

From socio- + -tope; compare German Soziotop.

Questions about sociotope

What does sociotope mean?
Sociotope means a geographical area that has a uniform social environment.
What part of speech is sociotope?
Sociotope is a noun.
How do you pronounce sociotope?
Sociotope is pronounced /ˈsəʊʃiə(ʊ)ˌtəʊp/ (UK).
What is the plural of sociotope?
The plural of sociotope is sociotopes.

Words near sociotope in the dictionary

  1. sociotherapist
  2. sociotherapists
  3. sociotherapy
  4. sociotonetic
  5. sociotonetics
  6. sociotope
  7. sociotopes
  8. sociotopographic
  9. sociotopography
  10. sociotropic
  11. sociotropy

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