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Record Nr.

UNINA9910958815103321

Autore

Delanty Gerard

Titolo

Community / / Gerard Delanty

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2003-

ISBN

1-136-36628-8

0-415-23686-X

1-315-01141-7

1-136-36621-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (238 pages)

Collana

Key ideas

Disciplina

307

Soggetti

Communities

Alienation (Social psychology)

Multiculturalism

Community life

Social action

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

chapter Introduction -- chapter 1 Community as an Idea: Loss and Recovery -- chapter 2 Community and Society: Myths of Modernity -- chapter 3 Urban Community: Locality and Belonging -- chapter 4 Political Community: Communitarianism and Citizenship -- chapter 5 Community and Difference: Varieties of Multiculturalism -- chapter 6 Communities of dissent: the idea of communication communities Critiques of community: Habermas, Touraine -- chapter 7 Postmodern Community: Community Beyond Unity -- chapter 8 Cosmopolitan Community: Between the Local and the Global -- chapter 9 Virtual Community: Belonging as Communication.

Sommario/riassunto

Stimulating introduction to the concept of community, with an analysis of its origins in western utopian thought and as an imagined primitive state equated with traditional societies in classical sociology and anthropology.