Did urbanization kill 'community' in the nineteenth century, or even earlier? In this highly regarded volume Bender argues not only that community survivedthe trials of industrialization and urbanization but that it remains a fundamental element of American society today.
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Lively and provocative... A stunning critique of the definition of community common in twentieth-century theory... Graceful and intelligent throughout.
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The notion of community has been central to the analysis of social and political life at least since Plato and Aristotle inquired into the character of the Greek polis, but the concept as found in modern scholarship is of more recent origin. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, New England, United States, Talcott Parsons, Free Press, Civil War, Harvard University, Ness York, University of Chicago, Random House, Oxford University Press, Princeton University, American Revolution, Peter Laslett, Political Parties, Robert Park, Robert Redfield, Chapel Hill, Great Awakening, John Demos, Max Weber, Richard Sennett, Robert Nisbet, American Education, Centuries of Childhood New!
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The notion of community has been central to the analysis of social and political life at least since Plato and Aristotle inquired into the character of the Greek polis, but the concept as found in modern scholarship is of more recent origin. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
bifurcated society, social aggregates Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, New England, United States, Talcott Parsons, Free Press, Civil War, Harvard University, Ness York, University of Chicago, Random House, Oxford University Press, Princeton University, American Revolution, Peter Laslett, Political Parties, Robert Park, Robert Redfield, Chapel Hill, Great Awakening, John Demos, Max Weber, Richard Sennett, Robert Nisbet, American Education, Centuries of Childhood New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Intelligence of a People by Daniel Hovey Calhoun on page 77, page 107, and page 139
- Urbanism As a Way of Life (Reprint Series in Sociology) by Louis Wirth on page 19, page 21, and page 129
- Structure and Process in Modern Societies by Talcott Parsons on page 6, and page 7
- Face to Face (43 Light Street, Book 13) by Rebecca York on page 137, and page 148
- The Theory Of Social And Economic Organization by Max Weber on page 7, and page 28
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- Faces along the Bar: Lore and Order in the Workingman's Saloon, 1870-1920 (Historical Studies of Urban America) by Madelon Powers on 5 pages
- A Dutch Family in the Middle Colonies: 1660-1800 by Firth Haring Fabend on 4 pages
- The City and Education in Four Nations (Themes in International Urban History) by Ronald K. Goodenow on 4 pages
- Masterless: Self and Society in Modern America by Wilfred M. McClay in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Spreading the Word: The Bible Business in Nineteenth-Century America by Peter Wosh on page 66, page 71, and page 91
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