Symbolic construction of community
Publication details: Routledge, 1985 New York:Description: 128p. pb; 18 cmISBN:- 9780415046169
- 307 COH
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307.12 DAT Mega-urbanization in the global South : fast cities and new urban utopias of the postcolonial state | 307.14120954 BAS Capitalist development in India's informal economy | 307.3216098 LOW On the plaza : the politics of public space and culture | 307 COH Symbolic construction of community | 307 NAN Inoperative community | 307.1160954 COE Participolis: consent and contention in neoliberal urban India | 307.1216 ABB City planning: a very short introduction |
Anthony Cohen makes a distinct break with earlier approaches to the study of community, which treated the subject in largely structural terms. His view is interpretive and experiential, seeing the community as a cultural field with a complex of symbols whose meanings vary among its members. He delineates a concept applicable to local and ethnic communities through which people see themselves as belonging to society. The emphasis on boundary is sensitive to the circumstances in which people become aware of the implications of belonging to a community, and describes how they symbolise and utilise these boundaries to give substance to their values and identities.
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