Social space – a perspective for social work research and practice

Abstract

Space, a socially-embedded dimension of human action, has long been insufficiently addressed. Over the last three decades, it has increasingly become the focus of scholarly debates, shaping various research fields (especially those related to education, care and health). This article aims to reconstruct these scholarly discussions concerning space. Against this background, the article proposes a concept of space that fundamentally understands space as ‘social space’, which comprises the constantly (re)produced fabric of social practices. Such a conceptualisation transcends concepts of social space that are absolute and reduced to physical-material dimensions, as well as those that ignore the material dimensions of space, allowing for a relational understanding of space that focuses on the interplay between physical (territorial/geographical) and societal dimensions of spatiality.

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