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This thesis deals with several aspects of the theory of vector space categories. As a first approach, the definitions of vector space categories and their corresponding subspace resp. factorspace categories allows the use of combinatorial and category theoretical methods. In this way, properties of a factorspace category can be deduced from properties of the vector space category. That is the contents of the first chapter with some emphasis on Auslander-Reiten theory. From the second chapter on, we restrict to the case of finite vector space categories. The reason being that this enables us to apply methods and results from the theory of finite dimensional algebras. In Chapter 2, a functorial description of the transition via projective realization is given. Using this approach, the next step is to study the subcategories of socle-projective and of prinjective modules over certain finite dimensional algebras. As an essential tool, we apply the theory of homologically finite subcategories, e.g. in order to establish the existence of Auslander-Reiten sequences. Besides this, the \(\omega\)-radical plays the central role: The definition of a socle-projective module is based on it, the \(\omega\)-radical yields the construction of left approximations and of the functor which allows us to pass from prinjective modules to socle-projective ones. Among others, some known results are proven in a different way or their statements are refined. The knowledge gained in that section is the basis for the investigation of one-point extensions of vector space categories, which we do in Chapter 5. The notions that describe the change of the Auslander-Reiten quiver are in our situation -- just as for algebras -- the ones of ray and ray insertion. On the level of socle-projective modules, the corresponding definitions can be given in nearly the same way as for algebras and we do so with some natural generalizations in Chapter 4. In certain examples, e.g. for critical directed vector space categories, domestic (co-)extensions of them and for tubular vector space categories, tilting theory allows to determine the structure of the subcategory of prinjective modules over the algebras arising with a projective realization. Using an analogous strategy in Chapter 6, we can describe the position of socle-projective modules in the same situations and thus obtain the structure of the subcategory of socle-projective modules.