What Thompson is suggesting here is that the work of Turner and others takes on an essentialist sensibility, in that it presumes necessary features of 'essential and universal human spirituality', which are magically set free at the ...
This book captures the organization of modern community life and shows how current researchers are working with broader and more imaginative definitions of community.
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Analysis Sufficient emphasis has already been given to the disciplinary origins of the individual studies and their influence upon the development of the rural community monograph. These may be briefly summarised as the initiation by ...
Given a particular conceptualisation, a desirable method of research on community power structure should conform to the ... superiority over others by virtue of its special qualities when divorced from the nature of the problem studies.
Reflections on Community Studies
The Pellagra Study ( 1916–21 ) is usually quoted as the first scientific prospective study of a community , in the ... The book presents ten studies conducted in American communities , covering a wide range of issues : comprehensive ...
... community composition and function widen- ing the area of genomics where only the genetic material is studied. A few prior studies, like Pace et al. (1985), about phylogenetic analyses of environmental microbial communities are also ...
Studies of Rural Communities: Problems of Definition and Selection 3.1. Problems of definition It is not the place here to enter into a discussion of questions such as What is a community?, or What is a community study?
... 281; description of, 329; is it inevitable, 296; suburbia as darkest moment, 329; underlying trend, 107 education, see Bohemia, suburbia ethnic groups, Americanization and assimilation of, 75, 78, 122, 147; conflict between, 136-38; ...