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The American dream of community: An unfinished agenda

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Presented as the Presidential Address to the Eastern Sociological Society, May 2, 1987, in Boston, Massachusetts. This address is substantially as it was given on the occasion, hence there is no claim to a comprehensive review of the scholarly and research literature on this topic. That will, I hope, be remedied in a book in preparation.

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Keller, S. The American dream of community: An unfinished agenda. Sociol Forum 3, 167–183 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01115289

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