Symbolic Construction of Community (Key Ideas)

<p>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.</p>

Politics & Social Sciences

Cohen, Anthony P.

Social Sciences

Routledge

Questions of Consciousness (ASA Monographs)

<p>This book explores the importance of the concious self, and of the `conscious collectively', in the construction and interpretation of social relations and process.</p>

Rapport, Nigel

Philosophy

Whalsay: Symbol, Segment, and Boundary in a Shetland Island Community (Anthropological Studies of Britain)

Manchester Univ Pr

Whalsay: Symbol, Segment and Boundary in a Shetland Island Community (Anthropological Studies of Britain)

Sociology

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.

Symbolic Construction of Community (Key Ideas Ser.)

Tavistock Books

The symbolic construction of community (Key ideas)

Tavistock Publications

Symbolic Construction of Community

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