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Sense of community, a theory not a value: a response to Nowell and Boyd

✍ Scribed by David W. McMillan

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Weight: 107 KB
Volume: 39
Category: Article
ISSN: 0090-4392
DOI: 10.1002/jcop.20439

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✦ Synopsis

This is a response to the Nowell and Boyd (2010) article printed in this journal titled: Viewing Community as Responsibility as Well as Resource: Deconstructing the Theoretical Roots of Psychological Sense of Community. In that article, they argued that the McMillan theory of Sense of Community is a simplistic, needs-based theory that excludes responsibility as a part of Sense of Community. They base their critique of McMillan's theory on March and Olsen's many articles. In this article, McMillan responds. He argues that Nowell and Boyd ( 2010) have yet to understand his theory and that they use a false dichotomy to critique it. He suggests that Third Position Thinking (Newbrough, 1995; Newbrough & McMillan, 2005) would help undo false dichotomies and provide a better description of the juxtaposition of human values.

McMillan contends that responsibility is an inherent part of his theory.

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