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Armato, Michael.

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Creating a good community: Boundaries, politics, and gender in civic associations.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Creating a good community: Boundaries, politics, and gender in civic associations./
Author:	Armato, Michael.
Description:	183 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Kathleen Gerson.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-09A.
Subject:	Sociology, Organizational. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3234112
ISBN:	9780542877322

Creating a good community: Boundaries, politics, and gender in civic associations.
Armato, Michael.

Creating a good community: Boundaries, politics, and gender in civic associations. - 183 p.

Adviser: Kathleen Gerson.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2006.

America is now bowling alone when we once bowled together. In the closing decades of the 20th century, voluntary association membership dropped between 25 and 50 percent and active participation in local organizations fell more than 50 percent. Such precipitous decline may be good reason for alarm. Participation is linked to solving collective action problems, improving communities, enhancing tolerance, aiding in the flow of information that helps individuals in such things as attaining employment and communities in mobilizing to advance their interests, and even enhancing physical and emotional health outcomes.

ISBN: 9780542877322Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018023
Sociology, Organizational.

Creating a good community: Boundaries, politics, and gender in civic associations.
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520 $a America is now bowling alone when we once bowled together. In the closing decades of the 20th century, voluntary association membership dropped between 25 and 50 percent and active participation in local organizations fell more than 50 percent. Such precipitous decline may be good reason for alarm. Participation is linked to solving collective action problems, improving communities, enhancing tolerance, aiding in the flow of information that helps individuals in such things as attaining employment and communities in mobilizing to advance their interests, and even enhancing physical and emotional health outcomes.
520 $a But there is a potential dark side to community involvement: the type of group life that is exclusive and inhibits personal liberty. After all, the downturn in civic engagement was accompanied by marked increases in individual liberties and civil rights. From this view, civic engagement looks exclusionary, reactionary, supportive of the status quo, and intolerant of differences.
520 $a How can we make sense of these competing claims about American civic life? This dissertation is an ethnographic exploration of civic engagement in three civic associations in New York City. My comparative analysis allows me to demonstrate how civically active people differ in their approaches to civic engagement and community boundary-making. In contrast to static treatments of community, I focus on how different notions of community are used across diverse meeting situations, highlighting both intergroup and intragroup variations. My approach suggests that there is far more to civic culture than cognitive meaning-making or the rational pursuit of interests. Civic associations are sites rich in moral and emotional content where people come together to produce and maintain a collective moral identity as a good community. The place-based morality of the groups informs their political, practical, and emotional content. By exploring groups' political culture and the bases for solidarity implicit in people's talk---locale, class, race/ethnicity---I address the boundary work they undertake to create community insiders and outsiders. There is also an internal dimension to community boundaries which exists in the gendered ways participants practice civic engagement. I contend that the construction of external and internal boundaries is a fundamental component of civic life.
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