The Sociology of Community

Goe, W. Richard; Noonan, Sean

doi:10.4135/9781412939645.n46

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“…Definitions of community vary widely across the literature, and an agreement over its precise meaning remains elusive (Goe and Noonan 2007). Scholars continue to debate if geographic proximity is a necessary condition for community or whether communities can transcend "time" and "place".…”

Section: What Is Community?mentioning

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“…Scholars continue to debate if geographic proximity is a necessary condition for community or whether communities can transcend "time" and "place". Theoretical differences also exist over the appropriate geographic scale (e.g., the neighborhood, a small town, a city, a nation, or the global community), the precise nature of social relations (e.g., strong ties versus weak ties), and the extent to which communities are able to construct social identities for its members (Goe and Noonan 2007;Gusfield 1975;Hillery 1955;Piselli 2007;Poplin 1979).…”

Section: What Is Community?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Whether community is treated as a conceptual ideal-type or a lived reality for social actors, meanings differ-often widely-across time, space, and even subpopulations. In a sense, views on community are not static but are constantly being renegotiated within the context of larger social and cultural forces (Giddens 1990;Goe and Noonan 2007).…”

Section: What Is Community?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, these preferences may also signal that theoretical arguments advanced by the "saved" and "liberated" perspectives on community have limited conceptual utility (Beck 1994(Beck , 2000Wellman 1979;Wellman and Haythornthwaite 2002). The desire to return to strong place-based communities, which people in this segment of the TH movement express, may be better understood by synthesizing insights from the both perspectives (Goe and Noonan 2007;Putnam 2000). Many tiny housers may seek these "alternative" forms of community because they feel a general sense of erosion of their place-based communities and/or see life in the newer saved, liberated, and post-place communities equally unfulfilling.…”

Section: Desire For More Cohesive or Collaborative Community Structuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Small Houses, Big Community: Tiny Housers’ Desire for More Cohesive and Collaborative Communities

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Past research on the tiny house movement has primarily focused on understanding the individual motivations behind adopting the tiny house lifestyle. While some studies have suggested that tiny housers do entertain an interest in community, no systematic research exists that examines the actual complexities of this phenomenon. To make first inroads into this body of literature, twenty-four community-oriented tiny housers were interviewed about their ideal community. Interview questions ranged from definitions of community to specific ideas of the nature of community characteristics. Interviews were recorded, transcribed, and then coded in NVivo 12.0. Four main themes and eleven subthemes emerged from the qualitative content analysis. Select themes were then subjected to a subsequent quantification analysis in order to refine and deepen the theoretical understanding. The findings of this exploratory study suggest that a majority of tiny housers desire to be part of more cohesive and collaborative communities. While stressing the importance of community, tiny housers also expressed concerns over privacy. To explain the findings, the paper offers a set of arguments situated in the broader socio-cultural texture of our time.

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Section: What Is Community?mentioning

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Section: What Is Community?mentioning

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Section: What Is Community?mentioning

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Section: Desire For More Cohesive or Collaborative Community Structuresmentioning

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“…An activist seeking information on forest and environment issues was allegedly framed in a false prosecution by a large steel company (Sharma, ). Additionally, in communities people live, work and form social groups (Goe and Noonan, : 455). Community contributes to the growth of social relations.…”

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Democracy and human development: recent legislation in India

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2016

Development Policy Review

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Human Development (HD) requires that development must accompany fundamental human concerns that make life worth living. It is surprising that despite being a democracy, India performs poorly on HD. In this backdrop, four pieces of legislation of different orientations have been passed since 1998–99: ‘Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana’, the ‘Right to Information’, the ‘National Rural Employment Guarantee Act’ and the ‘Right to Education’. Where successful, they have empowered the beneficiaries. Though not expressed as such, nor exclusively directed to this end, these pieces of legislation are bound together with democracy's demand for HD: they are influenced externally by various aspects of globalisation; internally, development is continuously interrogated by democracy, competitive politics and social activism.

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Social Protection and Social Development in Swaziland

Dlamini

2020

Community Practice and Social Development in Social Work

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The Sociology of Community

Cited by 14 publications

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Small Houses, Big Community: Tiny Housers’ Desire for More Cohesive and Collaborative Communities

Small Houses, Big Community: Tiny Housers’ Desire for More Cohesive and Collaborative Communities

Democracy and human development: recent legislation in India

Social Protection and Social Development in Swaziland

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