Community Cohesion in Crisis? [electronic resource] : New Dimensions of Diversity and Difference
Flint, John.
Robinson, Professor David.
Bristol : Policy,
2008.
This book examines how new dimensions of diversity and difference, so often debated in the national context, are emerging at the neighbourhood level.
Description based upon print version of record.
Community cohesion In crisis?; Contents; List of tables and figures; Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; Introduction; 1. Community cohesion and the politics of communitarianism; Introduction; 2. Community cohesion in Bradford: neoliberal integrationism; 3. Connectivity of place and housing market change: the case of Birmingham; 4. Shifting geographies of minority ethnic settlement: remaking communities in Oldham and Rochdale; 5. Employment and disconnection: cultures of worklessness in neighbourhoods; 6. Beyond 'social glue'? 'Faith' and community cohesion
7. The third sector and community cohesion in deprived neighbourhoods8. Welfare state institutions and secessionary neighbourhood spaces; 9. New immigration and neighbourhood change; 10. Too much cohesion? Young people's territoriality in Glasgow and Edinburgh; 11. Geodemographics and the construction of differentiated neighbourhoods; 12. Secession or cohesion? Exploring the impact of gated communities; Conclusions; Index
This book examines how new dimensions of diversity and difference, so often debated in the national context, are emerging at the neighbourhood level.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
Social structure.
Social conflict
Neighborhoods
Social stricture
Group identity
Sociology & Social History
Social Conditions
Social Sciences