- -The second edition of The Sociology of Community Connections will include four new chapters to incorporate new subject matter
- -the second edition will also include updated graphs, tables and examples in existing chapters
- -includes a new chapter addressing the growth of virtual networks
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- About this book
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Many of our current social problems have been attributed to the breakdown or loss of community as a place and to the fragmentation of connections due to an extreme value of individualism in the Western world, particularly in the United States. Not all scholars and researchers agree that individualism and technology are the primary culprits in the loss of community as it existed in the middle decade of the 20th century. Nonetheless, people exist in groups, and connections are vital to their existence and in the daily performance of activities. The second edition of the Sociology of Community Connections will identify and help students understand community connectedness in the present and future.
- Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Social Connections
Pages 1-28
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Conceptions of Community: Past and Present
Pages 29-46
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Common Ties: Immigrant, Refugee, and Ethnic Communities
Pages 47-70
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Mobile Communities: The Tentative Ties of Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers
Pages 71-83
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Fragmented Ties: The Poor and the Homeless
Pages 85-109
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The Sociology of Community Connections
- Authors
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- John G. Bruhn
- Copyright
- 2011
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
- eBook ISBN
- 978-94-007-1633-9
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-94-007-1633-9
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-94-007-1632-2
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-94-017-8430-6
- Edition Number
- 2
- Number of Pages
- XXIII, 328
- Topics