The Sociology of Community Connections

• Main Author: Bruhn, John G. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2011.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Sociology.; Personality.; Social psychology.; Community psychology.; Environmental psychology.; Social Sciences.; Sociology, general.; Personality and Social Psychology.; Community and Environmental Psychology.

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 individualis...