Within the social science community, theorist Barry Wellman focuses on an idea that there is three views of a community while studying what social systemic divisions affect organization and the primary social networks between people. The idea of this “the community question” and the degrees of social networking led Wellman to examine the three arguments, if a community is either: lost, saved, and/or liberated.
According to Wellman, the first urban sociological response to the community question is that a community can be lost. The idea of “community lost” is that a society has lost its primary relationships and is now impersonal, temporary, and segmental. As stated in his academic article, Wellman explains, “the community lost argument contends …show more content…
The community loss concept is more focused on sparse networks that are often unstable for members of society because primary networks are impersonal, temporary, and segmented. Also, these communities are now more tied to secondary forms of connection such as organizations being based on jobs rather than shared memories. On the other hand, saved communities are considered to be dense networks that are focused more on neighborhoods, kinship, and tightly bound relationships within a community setting. Also, unlike both lost and liberated communities, saved communities make neighborhood their primary analyses rather than secondary, as well as demonstrating continued vitality of those primary ties that are considered “lost” in a lost community. However, both lost and saved communities believe in a village-like concept as a community norm. As far liberated communities, it, like the lost argument, minimizes neighborhoods as a primary network; however, unlike lost communities, liberated communities state that non-neighborhood networks can be primary ties because they provide social support and sociability. However, it recoils the idea of a village-like community and instead believes people can move among different social networks, especially in an online
According to Wellman, the first urban sociological response to the community question is that a community can be lost. The idea of “community lost” is that a society has lost its primary relationships and is now impersonal, temporary, and segmental. As stated in his academic article, Wellman explains, “the community lost argument contends …show more content…
The community loss concept is more focused on sparse networks that are often unstable for members of society because primary networks are impersonal, temporary, and segmented. Also, these communities are now more tied to secondary forms of connection such as organizations being based on jobs rather than shared memories. On the other hand, saved communities are considered to be dense networks that are focused more on neighborhoods, kinship, and tightly bound relationships within a community setting. Also, unlike both lost and liberated communities, saved communities make neighborhood their primary analyses rather than secondary, as well as demonstrating continued vitality of those primary ties that are considered “lost” in a lost community. However, both lost and saved communities believe in a village-like concept as a community norm. As far liberated communities, it, like the lost argument, minimizes neighborhoods as a primary network; however, unlike lost communities, liberated communities state that non-neighborhood networks can be primary ties because they provide social support and sociability. However, it recoils the idea of a village-like community and instead believes people can move among different social networks, especially in an online