Reconceptualizing community
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20079599 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vered Amit (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Pages | 11-30 |
| Publication date | 2003-12-16 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Realizing Community (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.4324/9780203451557-4 |
| OpenAlex | W4241725053 |
| ISBN | 9780203451557 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
It is difficult to discern much in the way of coherence among the multitude of definitions, descriptions and claims of community which occur in quotidian conversation as well as within a variety of scholarly work. Some fifty years ago, efforts to manage this cacophony analytically through competing definitions of community dominated the field of community studies, consigning it ‘for some time into an abyss of theoretical sterility’ (Cohen, 1985: 38). In 1955, G. A. Hillery was able to list numerous definitions of community which had by then appeared in the sociological literature, an inventory cited in more recent work as an illustration of the futility of such taxonomic approaches (ibid.; Lustiger-Thaler, 1994: 21; Baumann, 1996: 14), even of the dubious analytic utility of the concept of community altogether (Cohen, 1985 and this volume, Baumann, 1996: 14). So why, at this juncture, should we return our attention and analyses to such an ostensibly hackneyed term
Political science · Sociology · Community and Sustainable Development · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Critical Realism in Sociology
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,21 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2023 (17) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |