Social Structure and Forms of Sociality in the New Suburbia

鉴于一个明显多样化的郊区正变得越来越独立，问题就出现了，它的社会结构和生活世界是如何变化的。在“再城市化时代的城市扩展”联合项目中，拟议的项目提出了郊区住区--即位于城市边缘和周围地区的住区--社会性形式的特殊性问题。将调查，在1990年代以来被诊断为郊区空间多样化的背景下，是否仍然可以确定一种特定的郊区社会性形式，即互动和社区，或者它是否随着不同的聚落类型而相当不同。据推测，社会性的形式主要受居民的社会结构特征(社会经济地位和在生命周期中的地位)以及以公共设施和开放空间形式存在的定居点基础设施的影响。在社会性的概念下，视角指向居民的生活方式领域，这似乎是住区生活环境的特别特征：那里的联系和互动的社会形式。社会性的形式可以定位在“城市”和“郊区”之间的假设光谱中，调查郊区住区的社会性是否具有城市性质，以及在多大程度上具有城市性质，其中出现了与目的相关的社会异质关系和社区。对社会性形式进行调查的一个中心步骤将是对柏林、美因河畔法兰克福和汉堡这三个大都市地区的社会和基础设施模式和发展进行定量、微观的分析。其目的是展示社会结构发展如何反映在郊区，以及它们如何与基础设施的提供重叠。为此目的，将分析栅格级别的不同数据集(RWI-GEO-GRID数据集和微观数据)以及官方数据。在专家访谈的参与下，将在此基础上制定定居点类型。最后，将在两个聚落进行广泛的定性案例研究，以深入调查社会性形式，并将其与聚落类型学联系起来。在这两个案例研究的框架内，还计划进行专家访谈、参与性和非参与性观察、公共空间的短期调查以及与居民的定性访谈。

In view of an apparently diversifying suburbia that is gaining in independence, the question arises how its social structures and lifeworlds are changing. Within the joint project "Urban Expansion in Times of Reurbanization", the proposed project poses the question of the specificity of forms of sociality in suburban settlements, i.e. settlements located on the edges and in the surrounding areas of cities. It will be investigated whether, against the background of the diversification of suburban space diagnosed since the 1990s, a specific form of suburban sociality, i.e. of interaction and community, can still be identified or whether it is rather differentiated along different settlement types. It is assumed that the forms of sociality are primarily influenced by the socio-structural characteristics of the residents (socio-economic status and position in the life cycle) and the infrastructure of a settlement in the form of publicly accessible facilities and open spaces. With the concept of sociality, the view is directed to the area of the residents' way of life, which appears to be particularly characteristic for the living environment of settlements: to the social forms of contact and interaction there. Forms of sociality can be located in a hypothetical spectrum between "urban" and "suburban" and it is investigated whether and to what extent sociality in suburban settlements takes on an urban character, in which purpose-related and socially heterogeneous relationships and communities emerge. A central step towards the investigation of forms of sociality will be a quantitative, micro-scale analysis of social and infrastructural patterns and developments in the three metropolitan regions of Berlin, Frankfurt am Main and Hamburg. The aim is to show how socio-structural developments are reflected in suburban areas and how they overlap with the provision of infrastructure. For this purpose, different data sets on raster level (RWI-GEO-GRID data set and microm data) as well as official data will be analysed. With the involvement of interviews with experts, a typology of settlements will be developed on this basis. Finally, extensive qualitative case studies will be conducted in two settlements in order to investigate sociality forms in depth and to relate them to the settlement typology. Within the framework of these two case studies, which are also ethnographically designed, expert interviews, participatory and non-participatory observations, short surveys in public space and qualitative interviews with residents are planned.