Sociopetal

Quick meaning: Sociopetal is an adjective meaning (psychology, sociology) Of a place, etc.: involving the arrangement of a group of people so that each person can see and interact with the others.

Meaning

(psychology, sociology) Of a place, etc.: involving the arrangement of a group of people so that each person can see and interact with the others.

Example Sentences

Since there were few semiprivate sociopetal spaces or other facilities that could promote the formation of a social order, the informal social networks found in lower class neighborhoods didn’t develop.

Rather than design and furnish wards that further the patient’s desire to retreat from people, most psychiatrists would like to establish sociopetal wards in which patients are oriented toward other people.

[Robert] Sommer suggested that conversation among patients might be increased by rearranging the furniture into a “sociopetal” arrangement, with small numbers of chairs arranged in conversational groupings.

Sociopetality is that quality which encourages, fosters and even enforces the development of stable interpersonal relationships such as are found in small, face-to-face groups. The tepee, the igloo, the Zulu kraal are examples of buildings that could be described as highly sociopetal.

Antonyms for sociopetal

Common opposites include sociofugal.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sociofugal, egopetal, polypetalous, polypetal, dichoptic, multiplex.

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