Local place-based relations gave pre-modern communities solidity

Evidence

Much the same can be said of the local community. We should avoid the romanticised view of community which has often surfaced in social analysis when traditional cultures are compared to the modern. I mean here to stress the importance of localised relations organised in terms of place, where place has not yet become transformed by distanciated time-space relations. In the large majority of pre-modern settings, including most cities, the local milieu is the site of clusters of interweaving social relations, the low spatial span of which provides for their solidity in time. — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 247

Categorization

• XREF: Stevens’s Darlington Hall is a local community whose place-based trust dissolves under distanciated modernity — the Great House is exactly this dissolving locale. — connects to: Pre-modern trust is anchored in local place rather than abstract systems. — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 245; Modern place is a local expression of distant, disembedded relations — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 260; Impersonal modern systems paradoxically enable reembedding of local personal life — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 342 (+19 more)

Related

• Modern place is a local expression of distant, disembedded relations (similarity 0.89)
• Pre-modern trust is anchored in local place rather than abstract systems. (similarity 0.88)
• Three mechanisms drive modernity’s dynamism and process of time-space distanciation (similarity 0.84)
• Modern displacement integrates people into globalised communities rather than estranging them (similarity 0.84)
• Impersonal modern systems paradoxically enable reembedding of local personal life (similarity 0.84)
• Declaring oneself host of a locale legitimizes initiating contact there (similarity 0.81)
• Space-binding media create communities dispersed across distance rather than place (similarity 0.81)
• Modernity does not replace intimacy with impersonality but transforms it through distancing (similarity 0.80)
• Modernity transforms both global interconnection and the most intimate personal life (similarity 0.80)
• Microsociology’s localism fails once interaction is disembedded from physical place. (similarity 0.79)
• Pre-modern masses could only be reached through personal relational networks. (similarity 0.78)
• Modern organizations routinely connect local and global, affecting millions of lives (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Modern place is a local expression of distant, disembedded relations #contradicts (0.70) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 260
• Space-binding media create communities dispersed across distance rather than place #contradicts (0.70) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 623
• Time-binding cultures value history, ritual symbols, and rooted community #corroborates (0.70) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 624
• Impersonal modern systems paradoxically enable reembedding of local personal life #complicates (0.60) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 342
• Individualization loosens ties with the near to enable ties with the distant #contradicts (0.60) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 603