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Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1996
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Ties, Nets and an Elastic Bund: Community in the Postmodern City.
Smith, Greg
Community Development Journal, v31 n3 p250-59 Jul 1996
Clarifies the value-laden meanings of "community" in community work discourse. Centers on the concepts of Gemeinschaft (community), Gesellschaft (association), and Bund (league or federation). Examines the insights of community studies and the practice of community work within the Judeo-Christian value system. (SK)
Descriptors: Community, Community Action, Community Development, Community Organizations, Ethnicity, Ideology, Postmodernism, Values
Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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