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Intro -- Contents -- Toward an Institutional Theory of Community and Community Associations: a Review -- Abstract -- Keywords -- Editor's Introduction: the Importance of Community Context in Understanding Local Associations and Their Activities -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Community and Association -- 2.1 Community -- 2.1.1 Associations -- 2.1.1.1 Instrumental Associations -- 2.1.1.2 Interactive Associations -- 2.1.1.3 Affective Associations -- 2.1.1.4 Advocacy Groups -- 2.1.1.5 Linking Associations -- 2.1.2 Failure of Definition -- 2.2 Social Treasury and the Action Field -- 3 Community Conflict -- 3.1 Anticipating Community Conflicts -- 3.2 Associations and Conflict -- 3.2.1 Social Capital -- 3.2.2 Using Slow Sociology to Understand Wilbur and Woodside -- 3.2.3 Contagious Conflict in Woodside -- 3.2.4 No Conflict in Wilbur -- 3.2.5 Using Woodside and Wilbur to Understand Associations -- 3.3 Conflict and Associational Social Capital -- 4 Community Politics -- 4.1 Alinsky-Style Organizing -- 4.2 Alinsky and the Community of Limited Liability -- 4.3 Centralized Organization -- 4.4 Non-Political Organizing -- 4.5 The Community of Limited Liability and Organizing -- 5 Associations and the Institutional Theory of Community -- 5.1 Interorganizational Field -- 5.2 Institutionalization of Associations -- 6 Conclusion -- 6.1 Embedded -- 6.2 Contingent -- 6.3 Participatory -- 6.4 Interorganizational -- Bibliography -- Author Biography.

In the US there are about 450,000 people of Arabic-speaking origin or descent-whom, following their own practice, we shall call 'Syrians,' even though most of them are native Americans & many others came from countries outside the area that is now Syria. The renewal of interest in the Arab heritage among the younger generations is not a rejection of 'Americanization,' but a reflection of the degree of assimilation that has already occurred, & the acceptance of innocuous cultural diff's as the new 'American pattern.' Americanization has transformed the Syrian Orthodox Church too. Under vigorous leadership, the Arabic language has been gradually eliminated from the service, choirs have displaced the single voice, the organ has been introduced, & the ancient Near Eastern or Byzantine melodies have been harmonized & Westernized. The local churches, moreover, have taken on the qualities of 'community centers,' with recreational activities becoming more prominent. Americanization of the clergy has likewise been a deliberate policy, no one is ordained who has not been educated in America. The older generation has unsuccessfully resisted most of these innovations. J. A. Fishman.