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Our perception of ‘Community’, and the local social systems that manifest this property, are shaped by ‘community studies’. These range from the single researcher doing an ethnography of an isolated (rural) settlement — such as the contributors to Cohen (1982, 1986) — to teams using social surveys to explore the manifestation of economic restructuring in a given location or region (e.g. Roberts et al. 1985 or Gallie 1988). In between are a variety of studies which to a greater or lesser extent are issue-based (e.g. Moore, 1982), localised (Stacey et al. 1975), ethnographic (Gibbon and Steyne 1986), done by individuals or teams (Warwick and Littlejohn 1992), policy-oriented (Wengler 1984; Buhner 1987; Willmott 1987) and explicitly related to the origins of the idea of community (Strathern 1981).
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Payne, G. (1996). Imagining the Community: Some Reflections on the Community Study as a Method. In: Lyon, E.S., Busfield, J. (eds) Methodological Imaginations. Explorations in Sociology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24547-5_2
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