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sociotopes

sociotopes is the plural of sociotope.

Meaning of sociotope

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

Questions about sociotopes

What is sociotopes the plural of?
Sociotopes is the plural of sociotope.

Words near sociotopes in the dictionary

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

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