This book interprets popular American belief and sentiment about cities, suburbs, and small towns in terms of community ideologies. Based on in-depth interviews with residents of American communities, it shows how people construct a sense of identity based on their communities, and how they perceive and explain community problems (e.g., why cities have more crime than their suburban and rural counterparts) in terms of this identity. Hummon reveals the changing role of place imagery in contemporary society and offers an ...
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This book interprets popular American belief and sentiment about cities, suburbs, and small towns in terms of community ideologies. Based on in-depth interviews with residents of American communities, it shows how people construct a sense of identity based on their communities, and how they perceive and explain community problems (e.g., why cities have more crime than their suburban and rural counterparts) in terms of this identity. Hummon reveals the changing role of place imagery in contemporary society and offers an interpretation of American culture by treating commonplaces of community belief in an uncommon way-as facets of competing community ideologies. He argues that by adopting such ideologies, people are able to "make sense" of reality and their place in the everyday world.
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G+ No Dj Issued. 236pp. Extremities lightly rubbed; light foxing top edge; pencil underlining on some pages; top corner ffep. has been removed. Endnotes; biblio.; index. OK as reading copy.
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Light binding corner bumps. Some page-edge soil. VG. 23x15cm, xv, 236 pp. Contents: Community Perspectives: Community Ideology & American Society; Commonplaces About Community Belief; Perspective, Ideology, & Society; Minding Community: The Interpretation of Community Belief & Sentiment; Interpetation: An Interdisciplinary Excursus; Community Ideology as a Cultural System; People & Places: Urbanists, Villagers, & Suburbanists; Symbolic Landscapes: Small-Town Ideology; Small-Town Popularity; Valleytown & Its Perspective; The Symbolic Landscape; Urban Ideology: Beyond Antiurbanism; Urbanists, Reluctant Urbanites, & City Boosters; The Interpretive Perspective of Urban Ideology; Interpreting Urban Ideology; Suburban Ideology: Suburbia: Nightmare or Dream? Suburban Ideology: Suburbia: Nightmare or Dream? Suburban Ideology; Suburban Ideology & White Fight; Villagers & Urbanists in Suburbia; Competing Interpetations: Ideology & Suburbia; The Uses of Community Ideology: Community Apologetics: Ideology, Accounts, & Community Problems; Ideology & Community Problems; Accounting for Friendliness; Accounting for Safety & Crime; Ideology, Explanation, & Commitment; Community Identity: Beyong Placelessness; Identity & Ideology; Identification with Community: On Being a City Person; Community Identity as Selc-Conception; Without Community Identity; Community Identity & American Society; Conclusion: Community Ideology & American Culture: Community Rhetoric & Values; Community Ideology, Perspective, & American Culture; Community Perspectives & American Values; Community Ideology as Moral Perspective; Appendix: Researching Community.
