Participation, its potential and its limits. How far did these studies capture the reality of working class life, including the role of women and family. How and why this tradition was superseeded from the mid 1970's by locality studies which majored on economic restructuring. 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 network analysis.
Implications for the communitarian project. People often find their first order identity solidarity in ethnic, religious or lifestyle communities, which may or may not be geographically segregated. How does ethnicity operate. Review of a number of studies of minority groups and neighbourhoods in UK and elsewhere. If local communities are fragmenting in the post modern world globalisation of the economy and information networks is also increasingly obvious.