Abstract
AbstractCommunity is often understood as things people have in common or that bind them together; it also connotes a sense of belonging. In some of the earliest community studies researchers conflated common bonds with an attachment to place and harmonious social relationships therein, leaving the concept open to considerable debunking. Steven Brint (2001: 8) proposes instead a generic definition that avoids a problematic normative stance and treats community as a variable, rather than essential, aspect of group experience. While variable, these group relationships are nonetheless based principally on “affect, loyalty, common values, and/or personal concern.” Gerard Delanty (2010) offers an alternative view of community that is based less on values and more on styles of social organization and modes of belonging. Globalization has fragmented some forms of community while making possible others. Community is a flexible and resilient concept that exists in traditional and post‐traditional forms.
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