Contributor
Minar, David W.
Imprint:Chicago : Aldine Pub. Co., [1969]
Descriptionxii, 370 p. ; 25 cm.
Note:Part I. ROOTS OF COMMUNITY IN SOCIAL LIFE: SCENES AND KINDS OF SOCIAL INTERACTION: 1. Human life and social interaction: Elements of behavior / George Homans -- The sound of the shell / William Golding -- 2. Culture: Shared perspectives: The diversity of cultures / Ruth Benedict -- The old goray and the new / Isaac B. Singer -- 3. Community as place: The villager's view of life / Robert Redfield -- Look homeward, angel [selection] / Thomas Wolfe -- 4. The bonds of community: commitment and loyalty: Major types of human groups / Scott Greer -- The polis / H. D. F. Kitto -- Pericles' funeral oration / Thucydides -- Part II. KINDS OF COMMUNITIES: 5. Town and village: The coast and the hinterland / Van Wyck Brooks -- The case of America: the country town / Thorstein Veblen -- 6. The city as community: Cities and European civilization / Henri Pirenne -- The Keynote / Charles Dickens -- Babbitt [selection]/ Sinclair Lewis -- 7. National community: Political change / David W. Minar -- Of the present ability of America / Thomas Paine -- The Democratic Revolution in the West Indies [selection] / Vernon L. Arnett -- 8. The community of function: Of Time and the Railroader / W. F. Cottrell -- Community within a community: the professions / William J. Goode -- The corporation, its satellites, and the local community / Norton E. Long -- Reflections on the college past / C. P. Snow -- Part III. POLITICS AND COMMUNITY: 9. The nature of political culture: Politics, Book I [selection] / Aristotle -- Retrospect on yesterday's future / T. H. White -- The Flea Circus [selection] / William Brammer -- To hold your district... / William L. Riordon -- 10. The integrative and disruptive effects of politics: The meaning of the coronation / Edward Shils, Michael Young -- The coercion of community / Leo van Hoey -- The feast of unreason / Lawrence Durrell -- Part IV. COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN TODAY'S WORLD: The constrictive world of the beduin / Daniel Lerner -- Death by dieselization: a case study in the reaction to technological change / W. F. Cottrell -- 12. Social and personal consequences of change: Master trends / Hans Gerth, C. Wright Mills -- Theory of mass society / Edward Shils -- Beds in the east / Anthony Burgess -- 13. New hopes for an old concept: Search for the great community / John Dewey -- Leadership from the periphery / Robert Penn Warren -- The missing community / Paul Goodman.
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