Community Life

Graham Crow, Graham Allan (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

1994
Prentice-Hall (Verlag)
978-0-7450-1198-1 (ISBN)

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Designed for undergraduate courses, this book looks at the sociology of community in contemporary Britain. The book surveys the growing literature on the nature of local social relationships, drawing on a range of empirical and theoretical work.

First published in 1994. The sociology of community is currently undergoing something of a revival, and this book has been written with the aim of contributing to this process in a number of ways. First of all, it draws attention to the burgeoning literature on sociological aspects of community life. Secondly, its bring together the various studies considered here into a more coherent whole than they possess as simply a collection of separate pieces of research.

Graham Crow, Graham Allan

Introduction

Old and New Themes in the Sociology of Community
The Way Things Were: Community Life in Past Generations
The Restructuring of Communities: The Impact of Economic Change
Moving In and Moving On: The Significance of Geographical Mobility
Ethnicity, Solidarity and Exclusion: Race and Spatial Social Segregation
Home Ownership and Home Life: Changing Ideals of Housing and Domesticity
Remaking Communities: Urban Redevelopment and Community Action
Community and Social Policy: Care and Control
Conclusions: The Continuing Importance of the Sociology of Community

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.3.1994
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	362 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-7450-1198-5 / 0745011985
ISBN-13	978-0-7450-1198-1 / 9780745011981
Zustand	Neuware