Grundformen der Gesellschaft: Die Gemeinde

König, René; Hammerich, Kurt

doi:10.1007/978-3-531-90073-5_7

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“…Social ties in particular communities were studied as if they were representative for society as a whole (cf. Horkheimer and Adorno ), and not seldom, with a view towards changing society to the better (König , see Häußermann ). Similarly, social planners take the neighbourhood as the starting point for policies promoting social solidarity, and the neighbourhood community as key in filling social policy gaps in times of welfare state retrenchment (as suggested by communitarians, Etzioni ).…”

Section: The Relevance Of Neighbourhood Social Tiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Neighbourhood social ties: how much do residential, physical and virtual mobility matter?

Knies

2013

British Journal of Sociology

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Following up on the prediction by classical sociological theorists that neighbours will become irrelevant as societies become more mobile, this research examines the strength of people's social ties with neighbours and the associations thereof with residential, physical and virtual mobility using longitudinal data for Germany. Unlike previous studies, the research considers the three forms of mobility simultaneously and contrasts its effects on social ties with neighbours to those with family. The results show that residential and physical mobility are negatively associated with social ties to neighbours and positively with ties to family. Virtual mobility does not weaken social ties with neighbours but ties with family. The positive association between mobility and social ties with family may not be strong enough to ascertain that people maintain as close social ties to others in the future as it does not outweigh the negative association with visiting neighbours.

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Section: The Relevance Of Neighbourhood Social Tiesmentioning

confidence: 99%