This adjective appears in the name of a type of space that combines “real and imagined” activities as conceptualized by Edward Soja. Ray Oldenburg used this adjective to describe places that are “levelers” where “conversation is the main activity” in the book The Great Good Place. Alfred Sauvy coined a term containing this adjective in reference to a group that was “exploited” before the French Revolution as noted by the Abbé Sieyès (“ah-BAY say-YES”). Libraries and cafés exemplify social places described by this adjective, in decline in America, that are outside of the home and work. A term containing this adjective originally denoted countries not aligned with the US or USSR during the Cold War. For 10 points, developing countries are said to be in what kind of ordinal “world?” ■END■
ANSWER: third [accept third world or third estate or third place or thirdspace]
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