Neighbours

Nice little resource spotted by Jim Riley - thanks Jim! Some interesting stats/data here on social change and community. The decline of community has been a fairly regular feature in sociological research, charting social change through industrialisation and recently through the advent of globalisation. As Anthony Giddens said - in the Reith Lectures I believe - more of us are more likely to recognise Nelson Mandela (or a.n.other public figure) than we are other people who live in the same street as us. In fact, you might even think you know more about such public figures than you do other people living in your street. I don’t know if my experience is typical, but I’d certainly say that is true for me - I know about 4 or 5 people or groups of people (families) who live in my street. And none of them are on TV very often.