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Communal Forms - A Sociological Exploration of Concepts of Community (Hardcover)
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Communal Forms - A Sociological Exploration of Concepts of Community (Hardcover)
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Drawing on a wide range of social theory, as well as empirical
inputs from studies of work, neighbourhoods, events, meeting places
and online self-help groups, this book suggests that communal forms
are constructed on the basis of communicative, material,
biographic-cultural, practice-based, and situational layers. The
concept of community has long provided an important point of
departure for the discipline of sociology, with the conflicting
conceptions of community before and into modernity embodied in
Ferdinand Toennies' Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft and in Emile
Durkheim's Mechanical and Organic Solidarity, providing the focus
for debate. Other contributors have maintained an interest in
communities as communions, interactional competencies, symbolic
identification, tribal connection, and more recently communication.
Drawing on such theoretical contributions, as well as empirical
inputs, the authors develop a more nuanced concept of community,
based on the notion that it is constructed from several different
layers. This concept is then presented as a sociological toolbox
with which to fuel approaches to examining societal challenges and
change. Providing a fresh approach to a core sociological question
that also has a wider societal relevance, Communal Forms will be of
interest to scholars and students concerned with social issues, and
for those with a more general interest in community, society and
its development over time.
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