VILLAGE: SMALL COMMUNITIES and CONFLICT
Laurie Taylor hears all about the role of the stranger within as he talks to two social scientists about their work on villages and their different analyses of the divisions and conflicts that develop and have to be resolved in small communities.
Fifty years on from his classic study of a Welsh village, , Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Social Anthropology at , compares notes with , Research Fellow at the Ìýwho's currently investigating the experience of villagers drawn from the ethnic minority population.ÌýÌý
Jon Garland believes that levels of racial harassment in the countryside are considerably higher than official crime figures suggest.Ìý
To what extent does rural racism spring from the same sources as that found in urban centres?Ìý
How does it fit with one of the traditional roles of incomers – to be useful scapegoats in time of feud?
RELIGION
, Professor of Sociology at the , has spent most of the last twenty-five years studying the individualization of religion and the proliferation of sects and cults.Ìý
Eileen Barker talks to Laurie Taylor about why this so often provokes prejudice, intolerance and fear and about the increasing dangers of demonising difference.
Additional information:
Report by Jon Garland and Neil Chakraborti with Parvinder Sandal (June 2002).
Commissioned by Suffolk County Council, the report examines the relationship between established rural communities and ethnic minority residents. (Contact the Scarman Centre for more information)
Village on the Border: A Social Study of Religion, Politics and Football in a North Wales Community
by Ronald Frankenberg
Waveland Press, Inc.
ISBN 0 88133 485 5
Communities in Britain: Social Life in Town And Country
by Ronald Frankenberg
Gregg Revivals ISBN 0751202339
– Information Network Focus on Religious Movements
London School of Economics
Houghton Street
London
WC2A 2AE
New Religious Movements: A Practical Introduction
by Eileen Barker
The Stationery Office Books
ISBN 0113409273
The Making of a Moonie: Brainwashing or Choice?
by Eileen Barker
Gregg Revivals ISBN 0751201367
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