Community

3rd edition

Gerard Delanty (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

252 Seiten

2018 | 3rd edition
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-06812-4 (ISBN)

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The increasing atomization of modern society has been accompanied by an enduring nostalgia for the idea of community as a source of security and belonging in an increasingly insecure world. Far from disappearing, community has been revived by transnationalism and by new kinds of individualism. Gerard Delanty begins this stimulating critical introduction to the concept with an analysis of the origins of the idea of community in Western utopian thought, and as a theme in classical sociology and anthropology. He goes on to chart the resurgence of the idea within communitarian thought and postmodern philosophies, the complications and critiques of multiculturalism, and new manifestations of community within a society where changing modes of communication produce both fragmentation and possibilities of new social bonds. Contemporary community, he argues, is essentially a communication community based on belonging and sharing, and can be a powerful voice of political opposition. The communities of today are less spatially bounded than those of the past, but they cannot dispense with the need for a sense of belonging. The communicative ties and cultural structures of contemporary societies have opened up numerous possibilities for belonging based on religion, nationalism, ethnicity, lifestyle and gender.

Gerard Delanty is Professor of Sociology at the University of Sussex, UK. He is the author of The European Heritage: A Critical Re-Interpretation (2018).

Introduction 1. Community as an idea: loss and recovery 2. Community and society: myths of modernity 3. Urban community: locality and belonging 4. Political community: communitarianism and citizenship 5. Community and difference: varieties of multiculturalism 6. Communities of dissent: the idea of communication communities 7. Postmodern community: community beyond unity 8. Cosmopolitan community: between the local and the global 9. Virtual community: belonging as communication Conclusion: Theorizing community today

Erscheinungsdatum	06.05.2018
Reihe/Serie	Key Ideas
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	362 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-138-06812-8 / 1138068128
ISBN-13	978-1-138-06812-4 / 9781138068124
Zustand	Neuware