socialscape

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From social +‎ -scape.

Noun[edit]

socialscape (plural socialscapes)

  1. (rare, academic) A social landscape.
    • 2006, Peter J. Carroll, Between Heaven and Modernity: Reconstructing Suzhou, 1895-1937:
      As physical artifact, intellectual idea, and socialscape, the horse-road unambiguously connected with the new modern city coming into being.
    • 2012, Thomas J. Davis, Plessy v. Ferguson:
      Each wave threatened settled foundations, often washing away old understandings and leaving only contested socialscapes. The surge rushed against diverse peoples with long roots in the soil []