Urban bonds : social relationships in an inner city neighbourhood
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Urban bonds : social relationships in an inner city neighbourhood
Polity Press , Distributed in the USA by Blackwell Pub., 2003
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  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
Note
Bibliography: p. [225]-238
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
What is the role of the neighbourhood in our understanding of community and how has this role changed over the last century? Talja Blokland seeks to answer this question in this careful ethnographic study of the changing nature of social relationships and urban communities.
Careful ethnographic study of the changing nature of social relationships and urban communities.
Examines the role of the neighbourhood in our understanding of community and how this has changed over the last century.
Interweaves a detailed study of the history and current social life of a poor neighbourhood in Rotterdam, with a reflection on the character of social ties in urban areas everywhere.
Draws on American urban sociology and includes provocative discussions on the issues of community and ethnicity.
Table of Contents
Preface. 1. Disintegration And The 'Demise Of Community'.
2. Hillesluis As A Natural Area? Social Ecology And Neighbourhood Use.
3. Personal Networks As Communities.
4. Social Identification And A Grid Of Social Relations.
5. Familiarity And Transactions: Privatization I.
6. Institutions And Attachments: Privatization II.
7. Contemporary Communities And The Importance Of Location.
8. Ethnicity As A Dividing Field.
9. The Neighbourhood In The Imperfect Past.
10. Urban Bonds: Conclusions.
Annex: Research Approach.
Notes.
References.
Index
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