Arthur E. Morgan

The Small Community (eBook, ePUB)

Foundation of Democratic Life

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this age of large cities, mass culture, and ever more massive events, people must struggle against an overwhelming crowd of their own creations to maintain human integrity. In this manual for human survival, Arthur E. Morgan offers a solution: peaceful existence in the small, primary community where, more easily than anywhere else, people can find a way to live well. Ultimately striving to show that the small community is "the lifeblood of civilization," this volume examines the political organization, membership, economics, health, and ethics characteristics of small communities.

Like Rousseau before him, Morgan observes that we have less control over our affairs than in the past. In increasing our control of the natural environment, human beings have built a social environment so out of scale that it becomes nearly impossible for people to maintain balance. The struggle now is less with the natural order than with the social order, and preserving human integrity against the plethora of our own creations is the core problem.

The need to rediscover elementary forms of human existence has been accelerated by the efficiencies of centralized control and mass persuasion. In the face of this, small communities or intimate groups become the primary pattern in which human beings must live if the good life is to be a realistic goal. The timely nature of this volume has grown as the electronic displaces the mechanical as a moral rival to human community.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 339
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351474092
• Artikelnr.: 49043468

Autorenporträt

Arthur E. Morgan

Inhaltsangabe

One: The Significance of the Community
I: The Significance of the Small Community
II: What is a Community?
III: Man is a Community Animal
IV: History of the Community
V: The Place of the Community in Human Culture
VI: The Relation of the Community to Larger Social Units
VII: The Community in America
VIII: The Creation of New Communities
IX: The Problem
X: An Approach to a Solution of the Problem of the Community
Two: Community Organization
XI: Community Design
XII: A Study of the Community
XIII: The Community Council
XIV: Community Leadership
XV: Community Followership
Three: Specific Community Interests
XVI: Government and Public Relations
XVII: Community Economics
XVIII: Co-Operatives as an Expression of Community
XIX: Community Health
XX: Community Social Services
XXI: Small Community Recreation
XXII: Social and Cultural Aspects of Community Life
XXIII: Community Ethics
XXIV: The Church in the Community
Four: Concluding Observations
XXV: The Pioneer in the Community
XXVI: Freedom in the Community