TY  - GEN
N2  - Theoretical and philosophical work on community has yielded multifold definitions and analytical frameworks. Kenneth C. Bessant reflects on the inherent complexity and diversity of this deeply intersubjective aspect of lived social experience. He explores the relational underpinnings of early and more contemporary approaches to the study of community, with a particular emphasis on their core assumptions, concepts, and tenets. Each of these perspectives offers a relatively distinct interpretation of community, while also revealing the intrinsically relational fabric of its perpetual emergence, dynamism, and transformation. The 'being-with' of relational social existence is the fundamental basis upon which all conceptions of community are built, and this is the epicenter around which the book revolves. Community is born of, exists within, and brings forth social relations. It is a living expression of relational willing, thinking, and acting.
AB  - Theoretical and philosophical work on community has yielded multifold definitions and analytical frameworks. Kenneth C. Bessant reflects on the inherent complexity and diversity of this deeply intersubjective aspect of lived social experience. He explores the relational underpinnings of early and more contemporary approaches to the study of community, with a particular emphasis on their core assumptions, concepts, and tenets. Each of these perspectives offers a relatively distinct interpretation of community, while also revealing the intrinsically relational fabric of its perpetual emergence, dynamism, and transformation. The 'being-with' of relational social existence is the fundamental basis upon which all conceptions of community are built, and this is the epicenter around which the book revolves. Community is born of, exists within, and brings forth social relations. It is a living expression of relational willing, thinking, and acting.
T1  - The relational fabric of community /
AU  - Bessant, Kenneth C.
CN  - HM716
ID  - 838550
KW  - Intergroup relations.
KW  - Social interaction.
KW  - Sociology.
KW  - Community psychology.
SN  - 9781137560421
SN  - 1137560428
TI  - The relational fabric of community /
LK  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://link.springer.com/10.1057/978-1-137-56042-1
UR  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://link.springer.com/10.1057/978-1-137-56042-1
ER  -