Rebuilding Communities in an Age of Individualism
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Advanced Industrial Societies
Author_Paul Hopper
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Civic Education
Common Moral Culture
communitarianism
Community Service Schemes
Complex Modem Societies
Contemporary Societies
culture
detraditionalization
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fostering community resilience
Homogenized Global Culture
Human Flourishing
Late Modem Age
Liverpool Town Hall
Neighbourly Activity
Occupational Solidarity
Performance Related Pay Schemes
Pop Star
post-Fordist Transformation
post-industrial society
Private Orientated Modes
public
Public Spirited Activity
Public Spirited Culture
Public Spirited Manner
public-spiritedness
Silicon Valleys
social capital theory
spirited
Spontaneous Social Order
Strong Globalizers
Traditional Social Democratic Policies
trust building strategies
UK General Election
Undertaking Community Work
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- ISBN 9780754614388
- Weight: 420g
- Dimensions: 153 x 219mm
- Publication Date: 28 May 2003
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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As modern societies become increasingly individualistic, this fascinating book examines how we can maintain and revive local communities and community life. It demonstrates how the major developments and processes of our time, notably globalization, post-industrialism and de-traditionalization, contribute to this individualism to the detriment of community life. The author examines how community is a necessary and important component of human life and discusses possible ways in which to arrest its decline. In this regard, strategies geared to fostering trust and social capital are outlined as the basis for reinvigorating community life. The volume provides a coherent and distinct analysis of community as well as offering concrete policy prescriptions to counter the excessive individualism of our times. In both the nature and scope of its analysis, it offers a unique contribution to an extremely important issue in the contemporary period, one that increasingly preoccupies politicians, academics and ordinary citizens.
Dr Paul Hopper, Lecturer at the University of Brighton, School of Historical and Critical Studies, UK
