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

• Superior document: Stadt, Raum und Gesellschaft Series
• Author: Steigemann, Anna.
• Place / Publishing House: Wiesbaden : : Springer Vieweg. in Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH,, 2019.; Ã2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Stadt, Raum und Gesellschaft Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (334 pages)

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.