TY  - GEN
AU  - Cohen, Anthony P. 
TI  - Symbolic construction of community
SN  - 9780415046169
U1  - 307 COH 
PY  - 1985///
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Electronic Books. -- Local.
KW  - Social Anthropology
KW  - Sociale Antropologie
KW  - Communities
KW  - Society
KW  - Rural Society
KW  - Symbolic Interactionism
KW  - Cross-Cultural Studies.
KW  - Social Structure
N2  - 

        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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