the social organization of space: class, cognition, and residence in a Spanish town

Abstract

This paper examines the role of social class in the spatial ecology and cognitive culture of a Spanish farming town. It argues that the geographical orientations of the townsmen are a projection of a tripartite class model and that this projection reifies social cleavages, limits mobility, and intensifies cultural polarization in the community. The sociocultural and political implications of these findings for the general study of stratification are briefly discussed.