Book Details
Orange Code:28082
Paperback:353 pages
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Sections:
1. Social Connections2. Conceptions of Community: Past and Present3. Common Ties: Immigrant, Refugee, and Ethnic Communities4. Mobile Communities: The Tentative Ties of Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers5. Fragmented Ties: The Poor and the Homeless6. Communities in Crisis: Reconnecting Frayed Social Ties7. Communities of Exclusion and Excluded Communities: Barriers to Neighboring8. Connecting Seniors: Social Networks of Value9. Vital Bonds: Social Support, Social Networks, and Health10. The Social Internet: Cybercommunities
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Many of our current social problems have been attributed to the breakdown or loss of community as a place and to the fragmentation of connections due to an extreme value of individualism in the Western world, particularly in the United States. Not all scholars and researchers agree that individualism and technology are the primary culprits in the loss of community as it existed in the middle decade of the 20th century. Nonetheless, people exist in groups, and connections are vital to their existence and in the daily performance of activities. The second edition of the Sociology of Community Connections will identify and help students understand community connectedness in the present and future.
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