The sociology of community : a selection of readings
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The sociology of community : a selection of readings
(New sociology library, no. 5)
Frank Cass, 1974
Available at 70 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references
Description and Table of Contents
Description
First Published in 1974. In this collection Colin Bell and Howard Newby have reaped a rich harvest from the sociological field of community studies. The selection from the work in that field presented here should satisfy readers of many different tastes and interests. Specialists in the sociology of community studies will find the authors' brief, informative and succinct survey of the field and the introductory summaries to each chapter as useful for their own teaching and research as the comprehensive selection of articles itself. All those concerned with the welfare of people, whether social workers and nurses or magistrates and local authorities, will find here information about the community aspects of peoples' lives which all too often still fails to find a place in their professional training.
Table of Contents
Foreword-Towards a Theory of Communities, Introduction PART I THEORETICAL PRELIMINARIES TO THE STUDY OF COMMUNITY 1. Introduction 2. Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft 3. The Myth of Community Studies 4. Cohesion, Conflict and Community Character PART II THE SOCIOLOGY OF RURAL BRITISH COMMUNITIES 5. Introduction 6. Continuity and Equilibrium in County Clare 7. Class Relations in a Rural Parish: Westrigg 8. Dynamic Equilibrium in Ashworthy 9. Continuity and Conscious Models in County Clare and Ashworthy: A Reappraisal PART III PEASANTS AND PEASANT SOCIETY IN SOUTHERN ITALY 10. Introduction 11. Emigration and Social Change in Southern Italy 12. The Role of Amoral Familism in the Structure of Traditionalism 13. Morals and Backwardness PART IV THE SOCIOLOGY OF THE INNER CITY 14. Introduction 15. Soulside, Washington D.C., in the 1960's: Black Ghetto Culture and Community 16. The Sociology of a Zone of Transition 17. Territoriality in Belfast PART V THE SOCIOLOGICAL STUDY OF SUBURBAN COMMUNITIES 18. Introduction 19. Crestwood Heights: A Canadian Middle-Class Suburb 20. Myths of American Suburbia 21. The Use of Gossip and Event Analysis in the Study of Suburban Communities PART VI LLOYD WARNER'S YANKEE CITY STUDIES 22. Introduction 23. Social Class in Yankee City 24. The Modern Community as a Laboratory 25. Lloyd Warner and his Critics PART VII THE SOCIOLOGY OF COMMUNITY-APPRAISALS OF THE FIELD 27. Introduction 28. Sociology of the Community: Current Status and Prospects 29. Community Study: Retrospect and Prospect
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