Symbolic Construction of Community

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-138-13697-7
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 128 Seiten, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 198 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Key Ideas

Anthony Cohen makes a distinct break with earlier approaches to the study of community, which treated the subject in largely structural terms. His view is interpretive and experiential, seeing the community as a cultural field with a complex of symbols whose meanings vary among its members. He delineates a concept applicable to local and ethnic communities through which people see themselves as belonging to society. The emphasis on boundary is sensitive to the circumstances in which people become aware of the implications of belonging to a community, and describes how they symbolise and utilise these boundaries to give substance to their values and identities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cohen, Anthony P.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Symbolizing The Boundary; Chapter 3 Communities of Meaning; Chapter 4 The Symbolic Construction Of Community;

Über Autor(innen)

Department of Social Anthropology. University of Manchester.