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Landscape as human experience and object of
science

• Introduction to
• Landscape sociology

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Landscape(s) sociology

• Landscape Sociology focuses on the interaction of
  society and environment on a landscape scale.
• Ecological
• Landscape Sociology is the study of people in the
  non-urban landscape, including the urban fringe,
  regional towns and service centers.
• Sociological
• Landscape Sociology fosuses on protection and
  improvement of natural and urban landscape.
• Environmental

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Land/scape as

• Meaningbasic definition
• Model..quantitative application of meanings
• Methaphorimagination in other consequences

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Landscape sociology or Landscapes?

• Examples from Melbourne School of Land and
  Environment
• Landscape is a vernacular scene, the product of
  everyday practice. Landscape sociologists believe
  that the landscape is not neutral but
  constructed, and that from this theoretical
  position research is possible to understand the
  social practices that have contributed to how the
  landscape is now and how it might be different in
  the future.
• Water in the Landscape Project
• This research uses landscape and ideas from
  complex theory as the underlying context to
  explore these issues.
• Landscape provides a framework for understanding
  not just the physical aspects of environment, but
  also how it is understood as a whole
• the history, the patterns of land use, and the
  values and beliefs of those constructing the
  landscape.
• In this way we use the metaphor of landscape to
  connect the ecosystem with the daily activities

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Landscape Sociology - examples

• Landscape is a useful metaphor for considering
  the meaning and importance of a location, in
  particular associated with local food production
• Leland L. Glenna
• department of rural sociology at the University
  of Missouri-Columbia Rationality, habitus, and
  agricultural landscapes Ethnographic case
  studies in landscape sociology
• To explain how agricultural landscapes become
  social constructions of the natural environment,
  this essay utilizes Jurgen Habermas's concept of
  rationality and Pierre Bourdieu's constructs of
  field and habitus to examine how social
  relationships shape the way three farmers
  perceive, alter, and evaluate their land.

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Landscape Sociology (example of Greek)

• Study ofSocial responsibilities of enterprises'
  members for protection and improvement of natural
  and urban landscapes. Social criteria for
  valuation, protection and improvement of
  landscape quality. Landscape- habitants, visitors
  and employees. Relations and perspectives of
  landscape and society.

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Landscape Sociology at the beginning

• expectations
• Action, practical using, criteria,
• human demands anthropo-centric oriented
• X
• understanding, phenomenon,
• nature culture continuumeco-centric oriented

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Landscape Sociology at the beginning

• Practical changes, development, creation,
  landscaping
• Conservation, landscape protection, elimination
• De/construction of cultural landscape concept,
  meanings, definition, self-organization,
  understanding