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To grasp the sociological perspective on community, it is essential to consider the elements that different theorists have identified as its core components. These elements not only describe physical attributes but also encompass the deeper social and emotional connections between individuals.
Nov 21, 2012 · Community is a broad topic within sociology, the social sciences generally, and indeed even in the natural and physical sciences. This bibliography focuses primarily on human communities, and although many different definitions have been offered, most involve a few basic claims.
Elements (Bases) of Community. MacIver and Page have listed two bases of community: Locality: A community always occupies a territorial area. The strong bond of solidarity ...
Jul 13, 2023 · Community is a vital dimension in modern society and a key element of social organization. There is no agreed definition, but community always involves meaningful social interactions and a common interest in a group of any size.
- Human Ecology
- Community Power
- Urban Lifestyles
- Networks as Communities
Continued urbanization and a steady flow of immigrants, many of whom settled in cities, contributed to the development of urban sociology in the United States. It was not surprising that Chicago, which had grown to a population of nearly three million by the beginning of the twentieth century, would become the site of the first urban studies center...
Floyd Hunter (1953) was interested in community power and how it was used. He intensively interviewed 40 men who were in decision-making positions in Regional City, a southern city in the United States of about half a million people. The 40 men were selected from a larger list of men who had reputations for their power. Hunter’s goal was to describ...
Similarly, Herbert Gans (1962) found that urbanism is not a single distinctive lifestyle. He divided the population of a typical post industrial American city into five different groups, each with a distinctive lifestyle. One group was labeled cosmopolites. They were the professionals and white collar workers with a broad range of interests. They ...
Barry Wellman and his colleagues at the University of Toronto have taken a network or “community liberated” approach to urban studies. They pointed out that when cities are studied as networks or structures of interpersonal linkages the diversity of the city becomes a source of strength rather than of chaos (Craven & Wellman, 1973). They defined a ...
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An understanding of a community involves (1) a knowledge of the necessary number of people for any given type of cummunity activity, (2) the changes affecting the stability of the community, (3) what cultural interests the people have and (4) the interrelation of the various community activities.
The first, and perhaps most crucial, elements of culture we will discuss are values and beliefs. Value does not mean monetary worth in sociology, but ra...
