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SOAN 286. COMMUNITY

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Landscape and Architecture

 The Interpretation of Ordinary Landscapes: Geographical Essays, D.W. Menning (ed.)

Landscapes: Selected Writings of J.B. Jackson, E. Zube (ed.)  

The Death and Life of Great American Cities, J. Jacobs

 

Civic participation and activism

The Vermont Papers: Recreating Democracy on a Human Scale, F. Bryan & J.  McClaughry (esp. Ch. 12)

Community Works:  The Revival of Civil Society in America, E.J. Dionne, Jr.

R. Fullinwinder, Civil Society, Democracy, and Civic Renewal

Almost Home: America’s Love-Hate Relationship with Community, D Kirp

Community Works: The Revival of Civil Society in America, E.J. Dionne, Jr.

Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in a Cynical Time, P. Loeb

Civil Society, Democracy, and Civic Renewal, R. Fullinwider (ed.)  

The Rise of Urbanization and the Decline of Citizenship, M. Bookchin

 

Community: its nature and value

 Community, Solidarity and Belonging:  Levels of Community and their Normative  Significance, A Mason

The Good Society, R. Bellah, et al. 

Individualism & Commitment in American Life, R. Bellah, et al. (eds.)  

Remaking Society, M. Bookchin

"Community in Seventeen Sensible Steps," W. Berry (UTNE Reader, 68:71)

 

Utopian Communities

 Utopian Episodes, S. Kesten

Amish Societies, J. Hostetler

 

Internet, Computer Communities

 Culture of the Internet, S. Kiesler (ed.)

Internet Culture, D. Porter (ed.)

Women @ Internet: Creating New Cultures in Cyberspace, W. Harcourt (ed.)Cultures of Internet, Rob Shield (ed.)

“Are MUDS Communities?  Identity, Belonging, and Consciousness in Virtual Worlds”  H. Bromberg

“Lonely Hearts, Classy Dreams, Empty Wallets” A. Waldman

 

Technology

 His and Hers: Gender, Consumption and Technology (esp. Ch. 8)

The McDonaldization of Society, G. Ritzer

 

Theory, Philosophy, Social Thought

 The Revival of Pragmatism, M. Dickstein (ed.) (esp. “Community in the Pragmatic Tradition,” R. Bernstein)

John Locke and the Origins of Private Property: Philosophical Explorations of

The Seekers, D. Boorstin (e.g., Parts III, IV, & V)

Voices of the Silenced: The Responsible Self in a Marginalized Community, D. Trimiew

“A Model for Christian Charity,” John Winthrop (1588-1649) 

“The Declaration of Independence,” Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

Autobiography and Poor Richard’s Almanac, Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

Letters from an American Farmer (1782), J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur

Democracy in America (1835), Alexis de Tocqueville

Middletown (1929) and Middletown in Transition (1937), Robert and Helen Lynd

Knowledge for What? (1939), Robert Lynd

The Lonely Crowd (1950), David Reisman  

Organization Man (1956) William H. Whyte

Americans Together (1977), Herve Varenne

 

 American Literature

 Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan

Bartleby (1854), Israel Potter (1855), Herman Melville

Leaves of Grass and Democratic Vistas (1871), Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

 

 Historical Communities

 Blood relations: Caribbean Immigrants and the Harlem Community, 1900-1930, I. Watkins-Owen

 

International Community

 Wealth and Freedom: An Introduction to Political Economy, D. Levine

Women and Social Change in Latin America, E. Jelin (ed.)

 

Structure and Characteristics of Community

 The Community in Urban Society, Larry Lyon

Who Rules America Now?  W. Domhoff (esp. Ch. 6 “Community Power Structures”)

The Restructuring of American Religion, R. Wuthnow

Why Survive?  Being Old in America, R. Butler