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...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Social Connections Introduction
• 2. Conceptions of Community: Past and Present Introduction
• 3. Common Ties: Immigrant, Refugee, and Ethnic Communities Introduction
• 4. Mobile Communities: The Tentative Ties of Migrant and and Seasonal Farmworkers
• Introduction 5. Fragmented Ties: The Poor and the Homeless
• Introduction
• 6. Communities in Crisis: Reconnecting Frayed Social Ties
• Introduction
• 7. Excluded Communities: Barriers to Neighboring
• Introduction
• 8. Connecting Seniors: Social Networks of Value
• Introduction
• 9. Connections of Faith: Religion as Community
• Introduction
• 10. Vital Bonds: Social Support, Social Networks, and Health
• Introduction
• 11. The Social Internet: Cybercommunities
• Introduction
• 12. Virtual Connections in New Work Environments
• Introduction
• 13. Ecologically Sustainable Communities: Place-Based and Purpose-Based Connections
• Introduction
• 14. Solitary Communities: Disconnecting From the Common Good Introduction
• Notes
• References
• Index.