Community

A Companion to Social Geography

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 91-107

  England, Marcia ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Communal identity, formed by difference theorized through alterity; Community to exist, microdivisions ignored and commonality promoted, feeling of cohesiveness; Community, concept, process and effect social harmony and social discord, difficult to define, to see and to study; Community, intriguing scholars contested term, consequences of concept, others dismissing it as meaningless; Community, social theorists examining "community" and "communities," how community affects organization of social life and spaces; Etzioni, and role of morality, his conceptualization of communitarianism Communitarians calling to restore civic virtues, for people to live up to their responsibilities; Purified communities, mobilization of social and spatial separation, as purification attempt; Resurgence of community in concept of neotribalism; Scales of community, concept resonating on multiple scales from global to the local; Spaces of community, influencing social relations and vice versa

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886066225     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444395211.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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