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The Places Where Community Is Practiced : How Store Owners and Their Businesses Build Neighborhood Social Life.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Steigemann, Anna.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Wiesbaden : Springer Vieweg. in Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, 2019.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Stadt, Raum und Gesellschaft Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Acknowledgements
  • Content
  • List of Figures
  • Introduction
  • 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 Research Gap: "The World in the City" and "The World in a Store"
  • 1.2 Conceptual Framework and Research Design
  • 2 The Meso-Level: Social Life and Trade on a Metropolitan Shopping Street
  • 2.1 The Street's Physical History
  • 2.2 "Trade is change." The Street's Retail History and its Current Changes
  • 2.3 "This is the free market. We set only the political framework." The History of Local Urban Renewal
  • 2.4 "Now we go through a new change, now the employed come back." The Current Gentrification of Karl-Marx-Straė
  • 2.5 Summary: "The main focus is on the site's development."
  • 3 Theories of the Ground: The Sensitizing Theoretical Concepts
  • 3.1 Sensitizing Concepts I: Third Place and Public Character
  • 3.2 Sensitizing Concepts II: Interaction in Semi-Public/ Public Spaces
  • 3.3 Sensitizing Concepts III: Community Building/ Senses of Belonging
  • 3.4 Summary: Use of Sensitizing Concepts for the Sampling rocess
  • 4 Realities on the Ground: Sampling Process and Methodology
  • 4.1 Theoretical Sampling
  • 4.2 Sampling Process
  • 4.3 The Core Sample
  • 4.4 Methodology
  • 4.4.1 Working on the Ground: Grounded Theory Method and Small Social Life Worlds
  • 4.4.2 Inquiry Methods: Interviews, Participant Observations, Secondary Material
  • 4.4.3 Design of Data Analysis
  • 5 Grounding the Social Life Worlds - The Case Businesses' Material Space and Social Context
  • 5.1 Organic Store
  • 5.2 Main CafĐe
  • 5.3 Pharmacy
  • 5.4 Flower Store
  • 5.5 Butcher
  • 5.6 Additional Cases and Conclusion
  • 6 Businesses as Spaces where Community is Practiced? The Socio-Spatial Features for "talking about everything," "coming down," and "staying in touch"
  • 6.1 "The idea was to create a meeting point." Neutral Grounds or Inclusive Publicness.
  • 6.2 "We are committed to all and we also want the store to be for all." Businesses as Levelers
  • 6.3 "They are pulling my leg a lot." The Conversations
  • 6.4 "For quality we need to go to another neighborhood, this is really difficult here." The Businesses' Accessibility and Accommodation
  • 6.5 "We really have lots of regulars." The Role of Regular Customers
  • 6.6 "Stability" and "Reliance" allowing for the Practice of Community: The Businesses' Appeal and Profile
  • 6.7 Businesses as "Male Playful Places," Businesses for "Self-Confident Women."
  • 6.8 Home away from home? A Synthesis of the Community Practices in and the Third Place Features of the Businesses
  • 7 Store Owners that Offer "More" - Public Characters on Changing Karl-Marx-Straė
  • 7.1 The Structure of Public Character Practices
  • 7.2 Caring about the Street in Times of Urban Renewal: "It all looks spick and span in front of my door"
  • 7.3 Connecting People: "The idea was a place for encounter, with a feel-good-character"
  • 7.4 "Certainly, packages always get delivered at the butcher's." Store Owners as Trusted Persons
  • 7.5 Conclusion: Offering "More" as Leading to an Excellent Social Status?
  • 8 Conclusion: "Lifting the curtain" of Karl-Marx-Straė's Places where Community is Practiced
  • Bibliography.

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