Community: 2nd edition (Key Ideas)

With this introduction to the concept of community, Gerard Delanty analyses the origins of the idea in Western utopian thought and as an imagined primitive state equated with traditional societies in classical sociology and anthropology.
Content: Community as an idea: loss and recovery --
Community and society: myths of modernity --
Urban community: locality and belonging --
Political community: communitarianism and citizenship --
Community and difference: varieties of multiculturalism --
Communities of dissent: the idea of communication communities --
Postmodern community: community beyond unity --
Cosmopolitan community: between the local and the global --
Virtual community: belonging as communication --
Conclusion: Theorizing community today.
Abstract: Stimulating introduction to the concept of community, with an analysis of its origins in western utopian thought and as an imagined primitive state equated with traditional societies in classical sociology and anthropology.