Chorology

The chorology (Greek χώρα, Chora, "Land, matter, space " and λόγος, logos, " word, doctrine " ) or Synchorologie or complex customer is the study of space and the spatial distribution of objects of a scientific discipline.

The doctrine of space

Just as the chronology is the doctrine of the time, chorology is to investigate (even Chorografie ) general methodology of scientific phenomenology with the aim of spatial aspects of phenomena. However, since in general the physics is the study of space and time, and other scientific disciplines relate to specific areas (such as the geology of the earth's crust, or as " geography " in the "space" of the earth's surface ), the name is given in some subject areas familiar.

Chorology in various sciences

Geography

In geography, there are several competing concepts of space, which can be distinguished according to this scheme:

• A materialistic concept of space as absolute space of the traditional and chorological Geography,
• An idealistic concept of space according to George Berkeley, Immanuel Kant; in geography, for example, space of action by the social geography by Benno Werlen
• By-step approach of " landscape ", as for example Alfred Hettner represents
• A historical- materialist conception of space as a spatial practice ( according to Henri Lefebvre ) with the advancement of American geographers David Harvey

Biology

Chorology in biogeography is the study of the geographical distribution of organisms or of individual species and systematic clans.

The area is the habitat of a species describes the chorology and classified the relationships between living things and their occurrence. You must tackle both the current state and with the conditions of the past and documented their changes. She serves as an aid to the taxonomy, but in particular as the descriptive part of the ecology ( the study of living organisms and their environment ).

It deals with the typing of areas and the causal analysis that led to the areas

• Historical- genetic: "Is the distribution limit a traveling frontier? "; this, see Migrating
• Actualistic: "Is the distribution limit a power limit? "

When working methods is the complex diagnosis. Since plants make particularly clear space allocations due to their limited mobility, especially the Flore analysis is developed.

It has particular importance in the context of ecology.

Cultural Studies

In the broad field of cultural studies, which ranges from the historical analysis of cultural policy activities to the literature, space appears in the tension between geographical condition and this over -writing cultural ( or political ) interpretation ( cultural region forming ).

In sociology, the term is as a social space such as a subject of the urban and architectural sociology.

Since the late 1980s a growing interest in spatial phenomena has emerged in the cultural and social sciences. This turn to the space issues will turn as Spatial, ' topological turning point ' or, more rarely referred to as ' space- critical turn '.

Archaeology and history

In archeology chorology is a method for finding a relative chronology, it is also called Horizontalstratigraphie or occupation chronology. A chorological analysis attempts to understand the systematic occupation and the systematic growth of a Fund places or burial ground to work out with the aim of each other largely contemporaneous areas and their temporal sequence.

For example, cemeteries often grow from the earliest burials from the inside out like an onion. Is mapped to the burial ground or settlement plans similar to each other finds ( types), the disclosure of images trace the growth zones. With many such mappings can be obtained by comparing the growth zones reconstruct. Despite the occasionally used naming of this method as Horizontalstratigraphie it is no archaeological stratigraphy and has not their strong probative value.

The chorology is also an auxiliary science of historiography. With the help of temporal sequences of historical events are determined or associated finds possible sites.