"The countryside is a national institution in a range of countries; most people aspire to live there, many people use it for leisure and recreation and we can all watch rural life played out on our television screen, read about it in novels or consume its imagery in art and cine…
Here, Peter Somerville provides a trenchant critique of current approaches to community, drawing extensively on both theory and recent research. With its thought-provoking and in-depth analysis of what it might mean to be a community, he has provided an invaluable resource for a…
Taking the rational individual as its primary social unit, this bookdevelops a new approach to the theory of social relations.
Examining the rational individual, this book develops a new approach to the theory of social relations. It explores how far we make sense of society on the assumption that people act as independent and free individuals, exercising rational choice. Re-examining the family, commun…
Taking the rational individual as its primary social unit, this book develops a new approach to the theory of social relations.
Taking the rational individual as its primary social unit, this book develops a new approach to the theory of social relations.
