Symbolic Construction of Community (Key Ideas)
Cohen, Anthony P.
ISBN 10: 0415046165 ISBN 13: 9780415046169
Published by Routledge, 1985
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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.
About the Author: Department of Social Anthropology. University of Manchester.
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Title: Symbolic Construction of Community (Key ...
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 1985
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good