ABSTRACT
In the last decade or two the disciplines of sociology and geography have come much closer together. If it is the case that sociology studies society or the social, and geography the spatial, then there has been a growing research programme oriented to the analysis of socio-spatial interactions (see Soja 1985). It has come to be accepted both that social life is spatially organized and that this makes a difference, and that space is necessarily the outcome in part at least of social processes. This is not to say that all sociologists and all geographers are aware of this sea-change in modes of thinking and analysis. But there has been a considerable body of writings in both subjects which suggests that there is a major shift occurring in the very relationship between them.
