Symbolic Construction of Community

by Anthony P. Cohen

Overview

Anthony Cohen makes a distinct break with earlier approaches to the study of community, which treated the subject in largely structural terms. His view is interpretive and experiential, seeing the community as a cultural field with a complex of symbols whose meanings vary among its members. He delineates a concept applicable to local and ethnic communities through which people see themselves as belonging to society. The emphasis on boundary is sensitive to the circumstances in which people become aware of the implications of belonging to a community, and describes how they symbolise and utilise these boundaries to give substance to their values and identities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134947485
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/07/2013
Series:	Key Ideas
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	128
File size:	574 KB

About the Author

Department of Social Anthropology. University of Manchester.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Symbolizing The Boundary; Chapter 3 Communities of Meaning; Chapter 4 The Symbolic Construction Of Community;