| Symbolic Construction of Community Revised Edition Contributor(s): Cohen, Anthony P. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415046165 ISBN-13: 9780415046169 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $66.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1985 Annotation: Anthony Cohen explores the concept of community in social theory. This title available in eBook format. Click here for more information. Visit our eBookstore at: www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 307 |
| Series: Key Ideas (Routledge Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.25" H x 5.15" W x 7.76" (0.36 lbs) 128 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |