The scaling up of society forms an undercurrent which creates possibilities for small-scale options. Environments where social groups live their everyday lives in our case, spaces characterized by the ascribed meaning imposed onto them through systemic inequality and institutional processes.

The key theme is that many modern small-scale movements and developments in one way or the other presuppose large-scale developments. Examinant l’histoire de la pensée et de l’espace relationnel, clarifiant certaines confusions sur la théorie spatiale et développant un usage heuristique de la sociologie spatiale, l’objet de cette introduction est d’inviter à la fois les spécialistes de la sociologie spatiale et les non-initiés. The article aims at clarifying the relationship between the process of the expanding size of society on the one hand, and modern small-scale trends on the other. the social and the spatial functions as a socio-spatial dialectic (Massey. On the other hand one cannot fail to notice a growing number of movements which, at least at first sight, can be interpreted as being opposed to the large-scale characteristics of modern society and the frictions and drawbacks which result from them. grappled with the role and meaning of space and spatial processes for human. Modern society is scaling up, for instance, in the longterm trend towards a diminishing number of autonomous states, the internationalization of more and more economic relations and the massification of culture.

In this article attention is drawn to the tension between large-scale and small-scale developments. Recently we have come to accept these contradictions as indicators of what may be an entirely new phase in history: post-modernity. Since the seventies, a number of confusing contradictions have arisen in almost every sphere of western society.

Socio spatial dialectic definition