Community
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7075996 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Graham Crow (0000-0001-8225-4378, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Publication date | 2007-02-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosc076 |
| OpenAlex | W4229814984 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 5 |
Community” is concerned with people having something in common, although there is much debate about precisely what that thing is. The most conventional approach relates to people sharing a geographical area (typically a neighborhood), an idea captured in references to local communities. Place is central to such an understanding because of the assumption that people are necessarily brought together by the fact of living in close proximity. This view is contested by those who argue that shared place does not always promote social connections between people. It is an established axiom of urban sociology that modern city spaces can be characterized as anonymous and impersonal, devoid of the collective connectedness associated with the idea of “community.” Indeed, the theme of urbanization and increased geographical mobility leading to a loss of traditional patterns of community has been a very powerful one in sociological thought from the very beginning of the discipline. Against this background, the search for the basis of community has led other writers to highlight the importance of people being brought together by common interests or by common identities, neither of which requires co‐presence. Occupational communities such as the academic community provide one example of groups of people whose common interests derived from work‐based attachments may hold them together despite their being geographically dispersed, while religious communities illustrate the parallel point that a community of identity does not necessitate members being together in the same place. In this vein, Benedict Anderson has described nations as “imagined communities” whose members cannot possibly all have close, face‐to‐face connections
Aesthetics · Epistemology · Genealogy · Identity (music · Social connectedness · Sociology · Theme (computing · History · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Capital and Networks · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0.17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |