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Community - 3rd edition (Paperback, 3rd edition)
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Community - 3rd edition (Paperback, 3rd edition)
Series: Key Ideas
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The increasing atomization of modern society has been accompanied
by an enduring nostalgia for the idea of community as a source of
security and belonging in an increasingly insecure world. Far from
disappearing, community has been revived by transnationalism and by
new kinds of individualism. Gerard Delanty begins this stimulating
critical introduction to the concept with an analysis of the
origins of the idea of community in Western utopian thought, and as
a theme in classical sociology and anthropology. He goes on to
chart the resurgence of the idea within communitarian thought and
postmodern philosophies, the complications and critiques of
multiculturalism, and new manifestations of community within a
society where changing modes of communication produce both
fragmentation and possibilities of new social bonds. Contemporary
community, he argues, is essentially a communication community
based on belonging and sharing, and can be a powerful voice of
political opposition. The communities of today are less spatially
bounded than those of the past, but they cannot dispense with the
need for a sense of belonging. The communicative ties and cultural
structures of contemporary societies have opened up numerous
possibilities for belonging based on religion, nationalism,
ethnicity, lifestyle and gender.
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