Participation, its potential and its limits. How far didthese studies capture the reality of working class life, including the role of women andfamily. How and why this tradition was superseeded from themid 1970's by locality studies which majored on economic restructuring. Networkanalysis Communitarians often assume or assert that the spirit of community needs to be rebuilt. The work of Abrams and Bulmer, Wilmott etc.
Social anthropology introduces notions of networkanalysis.
Implications for the communitarian project. People often find their first order identity solidarity in ethnic, religious orlifestyle communities, which may or may not be geographically segregated. How does ethnicity operate. Review of a number of studies ofminority groups and neighbourhoods in UK and elsewhere. If local communities are fragmenting in the post modern world globalisation of theeconomy and information networks is also increasingly obvious.