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The troubles with 'celebrity'
— community formation in senior public housing | | Author(s) | Christopher A Faircloth |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 22, part 5, September 2002 |
| Pages | pp 563-584 |
| Keywords | Neighbourhoods, communities etc ; Housing [elderly] ; Integration ; Qualitative Studies ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | In gerontology, studies of "community" in the past 10 years have generally focused on the need for community through social integration, while the underlying question, of how community is formed through social interaction, has been neglected. Community, as discussed here, grows out of interaction in a local setting. The interaction is based on a shared or common knowledge of the site's occupants. In essence, community is not so much a site or location per se, but rather the activity of converting a site into a shared collectivity. In this article, the specific mechanisms through which community is formed in Shady Grove, a south-east US government-sponsored housing complex, are documented. Using data from fieldwork in the neighbourhood, it is argued that, at this location, community is formed through talk about the neighbourhood's commonly recognised troubles. An important component of this "troubles talk" is the celebrity status of two residents. Talk about them is an important component of the elaboration and elucidation of the commonalities that bind the residents together. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-021003002 A |
| Classmark | RH: KE: TO: 3DP: 7T |
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