Community

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The increasing individualism of modern Western society has been accompanied by an enduring nostalgia for the idea of community as a source of security and belonging and, in recent years, as an alternative to the state as a basis for politics. Gerard Delanty begins this stimulating introduction to the concept with an analysis of the origins of the idea of community in Western Utopian thought, and as an imagined primitive state equated with traditional societies in classical sociology and anthrop…

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Full title :Community / Gerard Delanty.

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Publication Date:2003.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2003.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (238 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781136366215, 1136366210, 9781315011417, 1315011417, 9780415236867, 041523686X
oclc:ocn861536092
LC Classification:HM756
Dewey Decimal:307

Community as an idea: loss and recovery -- Community and society: myths of modernity -- Urban community: locality and belonging -- Political community: communitarianism and citizenship -- Community and difference: varieties of multiculturalism -- Communities of dissent: the idea of communication communities -- Postmodern community: community beyond unity -- Cosmopolitan community: between the local and the global -- Virtual community: belonging as communication -- Conclusion: Theorizing community today.

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Action sociale Aliénation (Psychologie sociale) Alienation (Social psychology) Begriff Communauté communities Community life Gemeenschap (sociologie) Gemeinschaft Individu en samenleving Kommunitarismus multiculturalism Multiculturalisme Politische Theorie Social action Social Alienation SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Essays