Family Matters: Community, Ethnicity, And Multiculturalism
Concepts which play an important role in the theoretical framework of community studies, such as community, identity, nation and nation state, ethnicity, and multiculturalism, are being discussed and questioned. It is argued that the idea of family resemblances should form the basis of any comparison, and that the circumstances in which these concepts are being expressed should be studied first, instead of using a checklist in order to establish them.