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Perry, Charles – Rural Sociology, 1986
Explores geographical definition of communities and tendency for community relations to transcend geographical boundaries. Reinterprets Durkheim's theory of social solidarity to argue that division of labor directly reduces solidarity but indirectly increases solidarity through secondary groups, the state, and the cult of individuality. (LFL)
Descriptors: Community, Community Relations, Community Study, Comparative Analysis
Winchell, Dick G. – 1982
Humanistic geography is similar to ethnography in that both are concerned with describing actions and events in terms of their meaning to those experiencing them; humanistic geography is particularly concerned with understanding subjective social space: space as perceived by members of particular human groups. A humanistic geography case study,…
Descriptors: American Indians, Basketball, Case Studies, Community Relations