sociotope

plural sociotopes

1. A geographical area that has a uniform social environment.

   Diaz is an avowed fan of Donald Trump and emerged from the large sociotope of right-wing radio hosts in the U.S.

   2020 September 24, Patrick Beuth et al., “QAnon's Inexorable Spread Beyond the U.S.”, in Spiegel International, page 63

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   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, number 4, page 63