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The Concept of Community in the Social Sciences and its Juridical Relevance

Isabelle Schulte-Tenckhoff
September 2001



Table of Contents


Executive Summary

About the Author

The Mandate

Posing the Problem

I. Understanding Community: Milestones

A. Community and Society (F. Tönnies)
B. Topicality And Critique Of Tönnies's Model
C. Mechanical and Organic Solidarity (E. Durkheim)
D. Communal and Associative Relationships (M. Weber)
E. The Folk-Urban Continuum (R. Redfield)
F. Assessment

II. Understanding Communities: Challenges

A. The Functionalist Study of Social Groups
B. The Problematic of Culture
C. The Problematic of Identity
D. The Concept of Ethnic Community (I): Taking Stock
E. The Concept of Ethnic Community (II): Problems
F. Communities Scattered and Reassembled
G. Assessment

III. Prospect: The Legal Significance Of Community

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