<P> For the individual, as well as the social institution, different levels of social space come to the fore at different times . To a Britisher, for example,' "we" sometimes narrows to southern England, sometimes broadens to refer to "Britain and America" or "Europe" or "the west"' . In precisely the same way,' a resident of Rome may define himself with varying degrees of intensity as a Roman, an Italian, a Catholic, a Christian, a European, a Westerner' - a sequence of stratified social spaces . </P> <P>' In premodern societies, space and place largely coincided...Modernity increasingly tears space away from place' . Whereas in the premodern' every thing has its assigned place in social space', postmodernists would proudly proclaim that' we need to substitute for the magisterial space of the past...a less upright, less Euclidean space where no one would ever be in his final place' . </P> <P> The way' migration, seen as a metaphor, is everywhere' in postmodernity -' we are migrants and perhaps hybrids, in but not of any situation in which we find ourselves' - is rooted in the postmodern forms of production of social space . </P> <P> Lefebvre considered globalization as the creation, and superimposition on nature, of' worldwide - social space...with strong points (the centers) and weaker and dominated bases (the peripheries)' . </P>

What is a common element of postmodern place