Tables, Figures, and Exhibits
Preface
Part I: Introduction
1. Community Perspectives: Community Ideology and American Society
Commonplaces about Community Belief
Perspective, Ideology, amd Society
2. Minding Community: The Interpretation of Community Belief and Sentiment
Interpretation: An Interdisciplinary Excursus
Community Ideology as a Cultural System
People and Places: Urbanists, Villagers, and Suburbanists
Part II: Symbolic Landscapes
3. Small-Town Ideology
Small-Town Popularity
Valleytown and its Perspective
The Symbolic Landscape
4. Urban Ideology
Beyond Antiurbansim
Urbanists, Reluctant Urbanites, and City Boosters
The Interpretive Perspective of Urban Ideology
Interpreting Urban Imagery
5. Suburban Ideology
Suburbia: Nightmare or Dream?
Suburban Ideology
Suburban Ideology and White Flight
Villagers and Urbanists in Suburbia
Competing Interpretations: Ideology and Suburbia
Part III: The Uses of Community Ideology
6. Community Apologetics: Ideology, Accounts, and Community Problems
Ideology and Community Problems
Accounting for Friendliness
Accounting for Safety and Crime
Ideology, Explanation, and Commitment
7. Community Identity
Beyond Placelessness
Identity and Ideology
Identification with Community: On Being a City Person
Community Identity as Self-Conception
Without Community Identity
Community Identity and American Society
Part IV: Conclusion
8. Community Ideology and American Culture
Community Rhetoric and Values
Community Ideology, Perspective, and American Culture
Community Perspectives and American Values
Community Ideology as Moral Perspective
Appendix: Researching Community Ideology: Reflections on Method
First Attempts: The Place Image Survey
The Emerging Strategy
Analysis and Community Ideology
Afterthoughts and Beyond
Notes
Bibliography
Index