Joint research of the environmental and spatial dimensions of social development constitutes a concrete example of "open science", the concept that is to offer a way out of sociology's epistemological crisis. Spatial and environmental themes are quite suitable for such transdisciplinary co-operation, though real shifts are small or slow in this field too. The findings of the research programme increase spatial sociology's "communicativeness", because it is indeed quite evident that hermetically narrow, specialist approaches contribute little to the social construction of space and the environment. For the same reasons, the research constantly endeavoured to develop a concept of micro and macro level convergence, that is to confront global "mega-processes" with events at the local and individual levels of everyday life. The research findings show that such an innovative approach, which connects two levels that are far apart, makes it possible to theorize everyday life and to pragmatize theory. And this has been one of the key problems of contemporary sociology, in Slovenia as well as around the world.