Conceptualising Community: Beyond the State and Individual

by David Studdert

Community is the dark shadow of sociology - an issue around which sociologists always duck and dive. This book examines the reasons for this reticence through an exegesis of contemporary debates. Additionally it utilizes the work of Hannah Arendt to propose an alternative anti-mechanistic and anti-essentialist approach to community and sociality; an approach that not only moves beyond Foucault and his oppositional work but also offers perhaps the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403946361
• ISBN13: 9781403946362
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 221 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.9"