Conceptualising Community: Beyond the State and Individual

by D. Studdert

Overview

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 basis for a different approach to politics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781403946362
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	12/06/2005
Edition description:	2005
Pages:	221
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

DAVID STUDDERT is a Research Fellow at the Open University, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction PART I: CONCIEVING COMMUNITY AND SOCIALITY The Social Science Approach to Sociality and Community Social Capital and New Forms of Trust The Third Way and Communitarians PART II: CURRENT CONCEPTIONS - PROBLEMS WITH METHOD The Individual/State Axis Mechanistic Theory and the Social PART III: NEW CONCEPTIONS: COMMUNITY THROUGH SOCIALITY Arendt: Sociality and Community on its Own Terms Community Through Sociality Conclusion: Looking Forward References Index