Original scientific paper

The Local Urban Community in Action

Aleksandar Štulhofer ; Faculty of Philosophy, Zagreb

Abstract

This paper dwells on describing the particulars of the urban community as one of limited emotional commitment based on the active participants’ interest strategies. The concept of the urban community itself can be analysed through the following constituents: the initial dimension (communal emotion), the manifest one (an accumulation of relations inside a relatively limited area) and the latent dimension (the feeling of belonging).
The central section of the paper discusses different modes of the social construction of the local urban community as well as the possibility of defining it as a communicational community, which, apart from depending upon others when interests are concerned, also includes collective emotion. However, only research of crises caused from without — crises in which the local community confronts the environment (possibly) achieving togetherness — can give a more definite answer. What follows is a survey of empirically based systematizations concerning the actions of the local community.
Finally, the normative and the realized roles of the communal system of neighborhood communities — as imposed »communities« — are subject to analysis, as well as the possibility (groups of interest, communal experience of action) of the subsequent formation of togetherness.

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Hrčak ID:

155576

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/155576

Publication date:

31.12.1988.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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