Communal Forms: A Sociological Exploration of Concepts of Community

by Aksel Tjora and Graham Scambler

Drawing on a wide range of social theory, as well as empirical inputs from studies of work, neighbourhoods, events, meeting places and online self-help groups, this book suggests that communal forms are constructed on the basis of communicative, material, biographic-cultural, practice-based, and situational layers. The concept of community has long provided an important point of departure for the discipline of sociology, with the conflicting conceptions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367438925
• ISBN13: 9780367438920
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.9" x 7.7"