Self and community in the city
Dublin Core
Titre
Self and community in the city
Sujet
, sociologie urbaine, société urbaine, voisinage, culture urbaine, identité, Krase Jerome, Brooklyn, New York
Description
Extract from the preface :
This work reports on a small portion of my continuing sociological research on city neighborhoods. The subjects which are dealt with here are quite delicate and my long-term involvement in the community is both an advantage as well as a disadvantage for understanding and describing it. Although at first glance this may appear to be a case study of a single neighborhood, as in William Whyte's
Street Corner Society, the abstractions and concepts either generated or employed in this piece are by no means limited to the particular site for this research. The same phenomena have been observed and documented by myself and others not only in American cities but cross-nationally as well. Sociological phenomena are seldom, however, expressed exactly the same way in any two locations.
The major theoretical theme of the book is the complex relationship between cultural symbols and societal structures which are embodied in the concrete entities of society - people, buildings, streets, maps and all forms of human settlements. One particular aspect of this general relationship is the interaction between self-images and the social meanings of the neighborhood communities in which people live. It is one of those many social phenomena "taken for granted" as part of everyday life and seldom analyzed, but nevertheless influential in the social construction of local community realities.
