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Book Review: Littledene: Patterns of Change

Book Review: Littledene: Patterns of Change Book Reviews Somerset, H. C. D., Littledene : Patterns of Chaage. Wellington : New Zealand Council for Educational Research, enlarged edition, 1974. Pp. 224. N.Z.$7.00 cloth. Wild, R. A., Bradstow : A Study of Statw, Class and Power in a Small Australian Town. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1974. Pp. 256. $11.50 cloth, $6.95 paper. To most people, sociology spells either the interminable statistics of survey research, or the impenetrable rumblings of systems theory. Luckily there are alternatives. One of the most important and interesting is the tradition of community studies. This starts with a delightfully simple move. One takes the method that anthropologists use when they enter, study, and describe a “primitive community”, and turns it on a section of one’s own society, producing in effect an ethnography of the familiar. The first step is simple, but after that the complications crowd in. You can’t study a city this way, so you have to pick a small unit to make the notion of a “ community ” stick-either a relatively closed neighbourhood, or, more commonly, a country town. These are not self-sustaining units like *‘ tribes ’* in a subsistence economy, so a standing methodological difficulty is set up, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian Journal of Education SAGE

Book Review: Littledene: Patterns of Change

Connell, R. W.
Australian Journal of Education , Volume 19 (1): 3 – Mar 1, 1975
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Book Reviews Somerset, H. C. D., Littledene : Patterns of Chaage. Wellington : New Zealand Council for Educational Research, enlarged edition, 1974. Pp. 224. N.Z.$7.00 cloth. Wild, R. A., Bradstow : A Study of Statw, Class and Power in a Small Australian Town. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1974. Pp. 256. $11.50 cloth, $6.95 paper. To most people, sociology spells either the interminable statistics of survey research, or the impenetrable rumblings of systems theory. Luckily there are alternatives. One of the most important and interesting is the tradition of community studies. This starts with a delightfully simple move. One takes the method that anthropologists use when they enter, study, and describe a “primitive community”, and turns it on a section of one’s own society, producing in effect an ethnography of the familiar. The first step is simple, but after that the complications crowd in. You can’t study a city this way, so you have to pick a small unit to make the notion of a “ community ” stick-either a relatively closed neighbourhood, or, more commonly, a country town. These are not self-sustaining units like *‘ tribes ’* in a subsistence economy, so a standing methodological difficulty is set up,

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