Introduction to
Landscape 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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Meaning…basic definition
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Model…..quantitative application of meanings
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Methaphor…imagination in other consequences

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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.
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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.
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In this way we use the metaphor of landscape to connect the ecosystem with the daily activities

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Landscape is a useful metaphor for considering the meaning and importance of a location, in particular associated with local food production
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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.

Landscape Sociology
(example of Greek)
• Study of……Social 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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Action, practical using, criteria, human demands anthropocentric
X understanding, phenomenon, nature – culture continuum eco-centric

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