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- Title
CITIZENSHIP AND THE CIVIC ASSOCIATION.
- Authors
Branford, Sybella
- Abstract
The article focuses on citizenship and civic association. Citizenship is taken to mean not a man's or woman's relation to the city or local community, in which a person lives, but something, which forms the environment of people's lives. In the article, citizenship means voting at parliamentary elections, while local affairs, which are affairs that very nearly concern all citizens, are sneered at as "the politics of the parish pump." However, such terms as citizenship and community are taken in the older sense as referring to the actual community in which one lives. It must be noted the civic life of such a community is only the depression of the local community arising through the monstrous growth of the Metropolitan area and cloaked by the metaphysical way of looking at things. The rise from the town to the city is to be thought of as a gradual process, a process towards the realization in each place of a local embodiment of the "city of God." This is obviously an intensive rather than an extensive process, not a matter of growth in size so much as of development. The article discusses how this rise may be achieved.
- Subjects
CITIZENSHIP; INTERPERSONAL relations; COMMUNITIES; URBAN growth; METROPOLITAN areas; HUMAN settlements
- Publication
Sociological Review (1908-1952), 1921, Vol a13, Issue 4, p228
- ISSN
0038-0261
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-954x.1921.tb01431.x