First Published in 1974. In this collection Colin Bell and Howard Newby have reaped a rich harvest from the sociological field of community studies. The selection from the work in that field presented here should satisfy readers of many different tastes and interests. Specialists in the sociology of community studies will find the authors' brief, informative and succinct survey of the field and the introductory summaries to each chapter as useful for their own teaching and research as the comprehensive selection of articles itself. All those concerned with the welfare of people, whether social workers and nurses or magistrates and local authorities, will find here information about the community aspects of peoples' lives which all too often still fails to find a place in their professional training.
Foreword-Towards a Theory of Communities, Introduction PART I THEORETICAL PRELIMINARIES TO THE STUDY OF COMMUNITY
1. Introduction
2. Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft
3. The Myth of Community Studies
4. Cohesion, Conflict and Community Character PART II THE SOCIOLOGY OF RURAL BRITISH COMMUNITIES
5. Introduction
6. Continuity and Equilibrium in County Clare
7. Class Relations in a Rural Parish: Westrigg
8. Dynamic Equilibrium in Ashworthy
9. Continuity and Conscious Models in County Clare and Ashworthy: A Reappraisal PART III PEASANTS AND PEASANT SOCIETY IN SOUTHERN ITALY
10. Introduction
11. Emigration and Social Change in Southern Italy
12. The Role of Amoral Familism in the Structure of Traditionalism
13. Morals and Backwardness PART IV THE SOCIOLOGY OF THE INNER CITY
14. Introduction
15. Soulside, Washington D.C., in the 1960's: Black Ghetto Culture and Community
16. The Sociology of a Zone of Transition
17. Territoriality in Belfast PART V THE SOCIOLOGICAL STUDY OF SUBURBAN COMMUNITIES
18. Introduction
19. Crestwood Heights: A Canadian Middle-Class Suburb
20. Myths of American Suburbia
21. The Use of Gossip and Event Analysis in the Study of Suburban Communities PART VI LLOYD WARNER'S YANKEE CITY STUDIES
22. Introduction
23. Social Class in Yankee City
24. The Modern Community as a Laboratory
25. Lloyd Warner and his Critics PART VII THE SOCIOLOGY OF COMMUNITY-APPRAISALS OF THE FIELD
27. Introduction
28. Sociology of the Community: Current Status and Prospects
29. Community Study: Retrospect and Prospect
Colin Bell and Howard Newby Department of Sociology, University of Essex
