{"product_id":"9780367438913-communal-forms","title":"Communal Forms","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Sociological Exploration of Concepts of Community\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on a wide range of social theory, as well as empirical inputs from studies of work, neighbourhoods, events, meeting places and online self-help groups, this book suggests that communal forms are constructed on the basis of communicative, material, biographic-cultural, practice-based, and situational layers. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on a wide range of social theory, as well as empirical inputs from studies of work, neighbourhoods, events, meeting places and online self-help groups, this book suggests that communal forms are constructed on the basis of communicative, material, biographic-cultural, practice-based, and situational layers. The concept of community has long provided an important point of departure for the discipline of sociology, with the conflicting conceptions of community before and into modernity embodied in Ferdinand Tönnies’ \u003cem\u003eGemeinschaft\u003c\/em\u003e and\u003cem\u003e Gesellschaft\u003c\/em\u003e and in Emile Dürkheim’s \u003cem\u003eMechanical and Organic Solidarity\u003c\/em\u003e, providing the focus for debate. Other contributors have maintained an interest in communities as communions, interactional competencies, symbolic identification, tribal connection, and more recently communication. Drawing on such theoretical contributions, as well as empirical inputs, the authors develop a more nuanced concept of community, based on the notion that it is constructed from several different layers. This concept is then presented as a sociological toolbox with which to fuel approaches to examining societal challenges and change. Providing a fresh approach to a core sociological question that also has a wider societal relevance, \u003ci\u003eCommunal Forms\u003c\/i\u003e will be of interest to scholars and students concerned with social issues, and for those with a more general interest in community, society and its development over time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56434637537654,"sku":"9780367438913","price":198.38,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_36652342.jpg?v=1760608294","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780367438913-communal-forms","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}