For the concept of third place in sports and other competitions, see Third place playoff.
Not to be confused with Third Space Theory.
This barber shop in Brazil is an example of a third place. In many societies barber shops and beauty salons are traditional areas to congregate separate from work or home.
In sociology, the third place refers to the social surroundings that are separate from the two usual social environments of home ("first place") and the workplace ("second place"). Examples of third places include churches, cafes, bars, clubs, community centres, public libraries, gyms, bookstores, makerspaces, stoops, parks, theaters, and opera houses, among others. In his book The Great Good Place (1989), Ray Oldenburg argues that third places are important for civil society, democracy, civic engagement and establishing feelings of a sense of place. Before Oldenburg's death, at 90, in 2022, he asked Karen Christensen, with whom he had corresponded and collaborated for many years, to write a new version of The Great Good Place, as well as keeping the original edition available.
sociology, the thirdplace refers to the social surroundings that are separate from the two usual social environments of home ("first place") and the workplace...
Many sports playoffs and knockout tournaments include a thirdplace playoff, thirdplace match, bronze medal game, or consolation game to decide which...
Celebrating The ThirdPlace, subtitled: Inspiring Stories About The Great Good Places at the Heart of Our Communities, is a 2001 book by Ray Oldenburg...
malls as third spaces (see Thirdplace, Postrel 2006; and see also Davis 2008). Bill Thompson (2007) offers an opposite conceptualisation of Third Space...
third round in Japan and picked up two third-place finishes in Spain and France. Rossi picked up additional points in Italy and another third-place podium...
in England's first penalty shoot-out. Despite losing to Italy in the thirdplace play-off, the members of the England team were given bronze medals identical...
second place at the Spanish Grand Prix, after qualifying in third. At the 2020 Belgian Grand Prix, he scored a podium in thirdplace, following his third place...
the 1974 World Cup in West Germany, and finished in fourth place after losing the thirdplace game to Poland. In the second group stage of the 1978 World...
years later, the team led by Raymond Kopa and Just Fontaine, finished in thirdplace at the 1958 World Cup. France experienced much of its success in three...
tradition for the third tier. As with the Second Division, the champion and runner-up were automatically promoted; the thirdplace was also promoted automatically...
Championship three times, and four times at the World Cup, with a further four third-place finishes at the World Cup. East Germany won Olympic Gold in 1976. Germany...
this tournament for the third time. This was his 19th PGA Tour victory. In August, McIlroy finished in a tie for thirdplace at the Olympic Games, representing...
second and third, still with identical records. Both teams qualified but they had to draw lots to place the teams in second and thirdplace. Source: FIFA...
the playoff series format instituted in 2014, the first, second, and thirdplace teams in each of the four divisions qualify for the playoffs automatically...
Colombia finished the group-stage in thirdplace with 3 points which managed to place them second amongst the third-placed teams. However, Colombia would...
groups going on to contest the final, and the runners-up playing in the thirdplace play-off. West Germany won their second European title by beating Belgium...
ended the season in thirdplace, however, with three wins and 13 podiums; he declared the season as a 'miracle'. After a third-place finish at the 2016...
major third, a third spanning four semitones minor third, a third encompassing three half steps, or semitones neutral third, wider than a minor third but...
way into thirdplace and was promoted to second behind Hamilton after a late-race tyre failure for Räikkönen's Ferrari. He gave up thirdplace at the Hungarian...
first. Place: Runner must finish first, second or thirdplace. In events with five to seven runners, no dividends are payable on thirdplace (signified...
thirdplace, winning three matches and losing two. In the 1948 CCCF Championship, hosted in Guatemala, Costa Rica won the championship for the third time...
in 1958. Switzerland achieved second place with Esther Ofarim (1963) and Daniela Simmons (1986), and thirdplace with Franca di Rienzo (1961) and Arlette...
moved him up to thirdplace in the drivers' championship. He qualified sixth for the Hungarian Grand Prix. He improved to thirdplace by the first corner...
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