'This graduate-level text explains how our early connections and attachments are formed and discusses past and present conceptions of community. The Sociology of Community Connections is highly recommended for classes in sociology, social work, social and cultural anthropology, community psychology, communications, criminal justice, and urban planning.'--BOOK JACKET.

Product Description: This book tells the story of how a human community comes to be and how aspirations for the good life confront the dilemmas and detours of real life. Suzanne Keller combines penetrating analysis of classic ideas about community with a remarkable and unprecedented thirty-year case study of one of the first "planned unit developments" in America and the first in New Jersey...read more

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An alphabetical introduction to the basic concepts of community, such as 'Buildings,' 'Family,' 'Rules,' and 'Working Together'

Shows how to share the deepest thoughts and feelings without fear or guilt and how communication builds communities and can be applied on a global scale (view table of contents)

Essays explore ways in which the concept of community has changed during the twentieth century