Community Studies by Colin Bell, Howard Newby - 9781032101255

Colin Bell

Community StudiesAn Introduction to the Sociology of the Local Community\nAuthor(s): Colin Bell, Howard Newby\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032101255, 978-1032101255\nSynopsis\nOriginally published in 1971, this was the first text on community studies which analysed the major empirical work in this field in a comparative perspective. It is concerned both with the sociology of community and the sociology of community studies. It takes both the findings of individual studies and the research process itself as significant sociological data in their own right, and it asks continually: how do we know what we know about communities?\n\nCommunity Studies is, then, not only a contribution to that particular field but also to our understanding of the interaction between theory and method in sociology. Studies are analysed from North and Latin America, Britain and Western Europe, and India. Two central problems, strati.