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The relational fabric of community /

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The relational fabric of community /

[Book]

Kenneth C. Bessant.

New York :

Palgrave Macmillan,

[2018]

1 online resource (ix, 249 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Intro; Dedication; Foreword; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction: The Enigma of Community; Conceptualizing Community; Communities of Place, Interest, and Communion; Place, Locale, and Shared Space; Common Interest(s); Communion; The Search for Community: Decline, Loss, and Transformation; The Community Question; The Liberal-Communitarian Debate; Contemporary Challenges to Community; The Deconstruction of Community: Singularity, Alterity, and Difference; Atomization, Fragmentation, and the Continued Quest for Community; The Relational Fabric of Community Theory; References.

Chapter 2: Entering into Relation: Being as Social BeingRelational Foundations: Tönnies, Weber, and Simmel; Ferdinand Tönnies: Relational Will and Collective Entities; Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft; Social Relationships, Collectives, and Corporate Entities; Max Weber: Subjective Meaning and Social Action; Georg Simmel: Content, Form, and Sociation; Conceptualizing Social Relations; Social Status and Social Role; Definition and Typological Classification; The (Inter)action-Relation Dynamic; Typological Systems; Social Transactions and Joint Actions.

Emerging Theoretical Issues in the Study of Social RelationsEmergentism, Ontological Individualism, and Critical Realism; Individualist Versus Collectivist Emergence; Concluding Remarks; References; Chapter 3: Evolving Conceptions of Community; Community (Social) Group; Social System Theory; Talcott Parsons: The Social System; Community as a Social System; Parsons' Conception of Community; Community System Theory; Human and Community Ecology; Human Ecology; Community Ecology; Social-Ecological and Community Resilience; Social Networks, Cyberspace, and Community.

Social Field Theory: Some Interpretative ConsiderationsSocial Field, Social Capital, Interest, and Agency; Spatial, Structural, Interactional, and Transactional Relations; Concluding Remarks; References; Chapter 5: Dialogical Conceptions of the Self and Community; Dialogic Relations1: Martin Buber and Mikhail Bakhtin; Martin Buber: The Ontology of the "Interhuman"; Mikhail Bakhtin: The "Inter-individual" and Dialogic Interaction; The Notion of Betweenness; Situated Action and Dialogic Interaction; Dialogic Community Practice; Betweenness, Relational Emergence, and Community; References.

Social Ties and Social NetworksWeak Versus Strong Ties; Personal Networked Communities; Mediated Relations, Cyberspace, and Virtual Communities; Concluding Remarks; References; Chapter 4: The Field-Interactional Approach to Community; The Field Concept; Kurt Lewin: Psychological Life Space; Pierre Bourdieu: Field, Capital, and Habitus; Different Interpretations of the "Field"; Interorganizational Relations, Networks, and Fields; The Field-Interactional Approach to Community; Social and Community Fields; The Social Self, Perspective Taking, and Emergent Community.

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Theoretical and philosophical work on community has yielded multifold definitions and analytical frameworks. Kenneth C. Bessant reflects on the inherent complexity and diversity of this deeply intersubjective aspect of lived social experience. He explores the relational underpinnings of early and more contemporary approaches to the study of community, with a particular emphasis on their core assumptions, concepts, and tenets. Each of these perspectives offers a relatively distinct interpretation of community, while also revealing the intrinsically relational fabric of its perpetual emergence, dynamism, and transformation. The 'being-with' of relational social existence is the fundamental basis upon which all conceptions of community are built, and this is the epicenter around which the book revolves. Community is born of, exists within, and brings forth social relations. It is a living expression of relational willing, thinking, and acting.

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9781137560414

Relational fabric of community.

9781137560414

Communities-- Social aspects.

Communities.

Community psychology.

Intergroup relations.

Social interaction.

Communities-- Social aspects.

Communities.

Community psychology.

Intergroup relations.

PSYCHOLOGY-- Social Psychology.

Social interaction.

Sociology.

JHBL

PSY-- 031000

Bessant, Kenneth C.

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