The Community-Study Method
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2203888 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Conrad M Arensberg (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1954 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 109-124 |
| Publication date | 1954-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9602 • E-ISSN: 1537-5390 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/221502 |
| OpenAlex | W1998094419 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 29 |
Community study has come to be one of the common methods of social science, deepening older social surveys with descriptive techniques based on field observation and contributing to sociology, anthropology, and social psychology. Critical re-examination of the use of the method shows it to be the study of social science problems and phenomena in vivo. Its success lies in its yielding priorities of relevance among factors, more realistic hypotheses, and better explanatory models. Community studies have proved communities to be structural units of cultural and social organization and transmission. They have revealed unexpected relationships among social, cultural, and psychological phenomena anda better basis for comparative ecology and urban sociology
Cultural anthropology · Epistemology · Field (mathematics) · Political science · Relevance (law) · Social ecology · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Community and Sustainable Development · Community Health and Development · Psychology · Social Psychology
The Social Organization of Behavior
Community Studies as an Ethnographic Knowledge Format
The Study of Man
A Public Philosophy in Public Health
Area Studies
Land Reform in Iran
Population
Social Psychological Dimensions of Community Satisfaction and Quality of Life
Serial Polygyny, Negro Peasants, and Model Analysis
Social Change and the Peasant Community
"Context collapse" on a small island
Behavior Modification and Operant Psychology
The Cambridge History of Iran
‘A twenty-four hour job’. Hildred and Clifford Geertz’s first foray into the field and the scholarly persona of the ethnographer
A Comment on Weppner's Review of “The Not So Solid South
Culture Change and the Small Community
The Field Study in Educational Policy Research
The Archaeology of Community on Bronze Age Cyprus
The Manipulation of Ritual among Plateau Nigerians
Fertility Decline in Southern Appalachia
Conrad Maynadier Arensberg (1910-1997)
The Community as Object and as Sample
Community Interrelations with the Outside World
American Communities
Problems of Studying American Culture
An epistemological turn
Family and Community
Locating Community Boundaries
The Six Cultures Study
| Unique citing works | 29 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,41 |
| Citation span | 1955 - 2023 (69) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 25 |