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Citation

Muir, Jonathan A.; Braudt, David B.; Swindle, Jeffrey; Flaherty, Jeremy S.; & Brown, Ralph B. (2018). Cultural Antecedents to Community: An Evaluation of Community Experience in the United States, Thailand, and Vietnam. City & Community, 17(2), 485-503. PMCID: PMC6124692

Abstract

To what extent does community experience differ between low context and high context societies? Prior literature theorizes that community experience consists of two separate, yet highly related concepts: community attachment, an individual's general rootedness to a place, and community satisfaction, how well an individual's community meets their societal needs. We test this conceptualization of community experience across communities in the US and two Southeast Asian nations: Thailand and Vietnam. We argue that Southeast Asian nations constitute "high context" societies with relatively high social integration and solidarity while the US is more individualized and less socially integrated and thus constitutes a "low context" society. Our results provide empirical evidence that individuals' experience of community varies between low and high context societies. These results demonstrate that cultural context continues to matter in regards to the lived experience of community and researchers need to remain vigilant in accounting for such differences as they seek to examine the concept of community more broadly.

URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cico.12300

Reference Type

Journal Article

Year Published

2018

Journal Title

City & Community

Author(s)

Muir, Jonathan A.
Braudt, David B.
Swindle, Jeffrey
Flaherty, Jeremy S.
Brown, Ralph B.

PMCID

PMC6124692

Continent/Country

United States of America
Thailand
Vietnam

State

All

ORCiD

Braudt - 0000-0001-5946-5732