Locality and Community: Coming to Terms with Place
- 1 February 1993
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Sociological Review
- Vol. 41 (1) , 82-111
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-954x.1993.tb02955.x
Abstract
The paper seeks to examine how social science has attempted to combine the uniqueness of place with general social processes. Two concepts which have traditionally been used to this end are examined; these are ‘locality’ and ‘community’. It is argued that although community has fallen out of favour, problems associated with the use of ‘locality’ could lead to a revival in the use of the former concept. Case study material from rural Wales is presented to show how the two approaches might usefully be combined.Keywords
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