Originally published in 1971, this was the first text on community studies which analysed the major empirical work in this field in a comparative perspective. It is concerned both with the sociology of community and the sociology of community studies. It takes both the findings of individual studies and the research process itself as significant sociological data in their own right, and it asks continually: how do we know what we know about communities? Community Studies is, then, not only a contribution to that particular field but also to our understanding of the interaction between theory and method in sociology. Studies are analysed from North and Latin America, Britain and Western Europe, and India. Two central problems, stratification and power, are considered at greater length. This book would prove to be an invaluable introduction not only for students of sociology but also for architects, planners and all those who had an interest in the community at the time. Its authors were, and had been, actively engaged in field research in this area.
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 ...
The book encompasses both breadth and depth of key concepts and issues. This book will be compulsory reading on our Community Studies degree.
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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?
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.
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 ...
Each the work of a specialist on the antebellum South, these essays address broad issues such as the slavery system, the growth of the cotton industry, and the growing sectional self-consciousness of the South.
This engaging text will be an exciting new resource for upper-level undergraduate and beginning graduate students in a wide range of courses including social network analysis, community studies, urban studies, organizational studies, and ...
The Sociology of Community. A Selection of Readings Edited and Introduced by Colin Bell and Howard Newby ... With a...