Abstract
Understanding communities and the conditions of their emergence is one of the main research goals of sociology. In sociology as well as in everyday life ‘community’ is usually considered to be a local entity, a neighborhood community. According to popular opinion and most of sociology, local communities are presently on their way out in western societies due to an ongoing modernization process and the urbanization that goes along with it. Community and local solidarity that supposedly existed in the ‘traditional small villages’ will not be found anymore (see Coleman 1992, De Vos 2004). In this paper we inquire whether community might be found in other places than the neighborhood, i.e. in the place where one works. How much occupational community can be found among co-workers in Dutch workplaces? Further, how can differences among workplaces regarding the experienced community be explained?
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Völker, B., Flap, H. (2007). Community at the Workplace. In: Lüdicke, J., Diewald, M. (eds) Soziale Netzwerke und soziale Ungleichheit. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-90458-0_5
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