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Community without Organizations
Author(s) -
Markowitz Fran
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
city and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1548-744X
pISSN - 0893-0465
DOI - 10.1525/city.1992.6.2.141
Subject(s) - immigration , sociology , valuation (finance) , judaism , community organization , political science , public relations , law , geography , economics , archaeology , finance
OVER 300,000 SOVIET JEWS immigrated to the West during the 1970s. Unlike virtually all other immigrant groups, Soviet Jewish emigres have not established viable voluntary organizations. This absence of formal organizations should not be understood as the result of an inability to organize. Rather, it must be interpreted in sociosymbolic terms, as a response to former Soviet citizens' strong valuation of informal self‐help, rooted in their desire to deinstitutionalize their daily lives, [community, Soviet emigres, immigrant organizations, urban anthropology]