Community structures in world perspective: Decline and transfiguration |
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Authors: | Arthur J Vidich |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Sociology, New School for Social Research, USA |
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Abstract: | Despite the relatively uniform images evoked by the word “community,” in the past several centuries the community structures
within which persons live have been anything but stable. The penetration of industrialization, bureaucratization and urbanization
into all areas of the world has resulted in the inexorable erosion not only of traditional values, but also of all older forms
of traditional andGemeinschaft community structures. From the ruins of the past, however, entirely new community formations and ideologies have emerged.
It is not entirely unexpected that these newer formations and ideologies are based on both mummified images of past traditions
and on entirely new values and institutions provided by industrial civilization. We argue that the destruction of communities
defined by past traditions and the emergence of new formations constitute a fundamental transformation in communal and community
relationships. |
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