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Author : Michael J. Austin
Publisher : Allyn & Bacon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Controversial Issues in Communities and Organizations written by Michael J. Austin and published by Allyn & Bacon. This book was released on 1994 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ram A. Cnaan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9780387757292
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (572 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Community Movements and Local Organizations written by Ram A. Cnaan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the way associations and the organization of local social life are intertwined is one of the oldest approaches to community study, the way citizens and residents come together informally to act and solve problems has rarely been a primary focus. Associations are central to important and developing areas of social theory and social action. This handbook takes voluntary associations as the starting point for making sense of communities. It offers a new perspective on voluntary organizations and gives an integrated, yet diverse, theoretical understanding of this important aspect of community life.
Author : Ram A. Cnaan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319774166
Total Pages : 549 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Community Movements and Local Organizations in the 21st Century written by Ram A. Cnaan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new handbook builds on The Handbook of Community Movements and Local Organizations published in 2007, and is the only resource defining the field of study related to small nonprofit organizations and to studying communities from the standpoint of associations that make up communities. It explores the history and conceptualizations of community, theoretical concepts in community organizations, social movements ranging from health to crime, and community practice methods. Further it provides authoritative statements of major theory areas, gives examples of different sub areas of the field, provides guidance to people working as practitioners in the field, and nicely coincides with the increasing interest in clinical sociology. This handbook is of great interest to academics, students and practitioners with an interdisciplinary resource to understand and collaborate in work with contemporary communities.
Author : Simon Slavin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135905940
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)
Download or read book Community Organization and Social Administration written by Simon Slavin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Community Organization and Social Administration presents a unique constellation of perspectives from scholars, researchers, and practitioners grounded in macro theories, practice, and education. Drawing upon the knowledge and experiences of social workers and other community-based professionals, this book provides a rich cross-section of models and strategies for those engaged in social change in the community, agency, and school or university. The chapters include data-based practice principles and guidelines for action.This book is a must for those who are teaching and practicing in community service, community change, and planning settings. Others who would benefit from the book include administrators of social service and community agencies; classroom teachers, field instructors, and students in organizing, planning, policy, and administration; policy analysts, program developers, and grant officers; and leaders and organizers of social change organizations, networks, and coalitions.Community Organization and Social Administration incorporates papers presented at the Symposia on Community Organization and Social Administration held at the Annual Program Meeting of the Council on Social Work Education. The papers are edited by members of the Association on Community Organizing and Social Administration (ACOSA).
Author : Eileen D. Gambrill
Publisher : Allyn & Bacon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Controversial Issues in Social Work written by Eileen D. Gambrill and published by Allyn & Bacon. This book was released on 1992 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Members of every profession agree on many things - and disagree on many others. Social work education often downplays controversy, making teaching in, and learning about, the field much less stimulating than it otherwise could be. qit- Controversial Issues in Social Work -qit highlights the value of controversy by using a debate format to present both sides of 24 topical and timely issues.
Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309451051
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Communicating Science Effectively written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2017-03-08 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science and technology are embedded in virtually every aspect of modern life. As a result, people face an increasing need to integrate information from science with their personal values and other considerations as they make important life decisions about medical care, the safety of foods, what to do about climate change, and many other issues. Communicating science effectively, however, is a complex task and an acquired skill. Moreover, the approaches to communicating science that will be most effective for specific audiences and circumstances are not obvious. Fortunately, there is an expanding science base from diverse disciplines that can support science communicators in making these determinations. Communicating Science Effectively offers a research agenda for science communicators and researchers seeking to apply this research and fill gaps in knowledge about how to communicate effectively about science, focusing in particular on issues that are contentious in the public sphere. To inform this research agenda, this publication identifies important influences â€" psychological, economic, political, social, cultural, and media-related â€" on how science related to such issues is understood, perceived, and used.
Author : Jack Rothman
Publisher : Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Reflections on Community Organization written by Jack Rothman and published by Cengage Learning. This book was released on 1999 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses fundamental concepts and dilemmas of community organization practice. It contains reflections and analysis by prominent figures in community organization--scholars, teachers, and activists who have made pioneering and seminal contributions to the field. Fourteen leaders provide reflective narratives and summarize their experience and observations. Their autobiographical accounts of lives and endeavors during the second half of the twentieth century are based on the verities of direct engagement. To broaden and enrich the discussion, professionals from several allied disciplines provide analytic commentaries, reflecting on the reflections.
Author : Herbert J. Rubin
Publisher : Pearson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Community Organizing and Development written by Herbert J. Rubin and published by Pearson. This book was released on 2008 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised edition of a well-known and widely used text in community organizing and development fully examines the broad and changing political and social settings that influence actions; while portraying the infra-structure of social change -- the knowledge, personnel, and organizations -- that enable such work to be successfully accomplished. The text brings together the practicalities of organizing and development -- fund raising, working out news releases, running an organization, orchestrating political actions, academic knowledge -- and explains why various approaches work; as well as the values and ideologies that guide what is to be done. It provides the foundations of organizing and development work and then describes how activists -- through following either a social confrontation model or an economic and social production approach -- can respond to economic and social problems.
Author : James DeFilippis
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813547555
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)
Download or read book Contesting Community written by James DeFilippis and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do community organizations and organizers do, and what should they do? "Contesting Community" addresses one of the vital issues of our day-the role and meaning of community in people's lives and in the larger political economy. It paints a more critical picture of community work which, according to the authors-in both theory and practice-has amounted to less than the sum of its parts. Their comparative study of efforts in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada describes and analyzes the limits and potential of this work.
Author : Carl Milofsky
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004412611
Total Pages : 71 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Towards an Institutional Theory of Community and Community Associations written by Carl Milofsky and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-08-26 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This article argues the position that the symbolic sense of community is a product of action by associations and larger community-based organizations. It draws on a theory from urban sociology called “the community of limited liability.” In the past this theory, first articulated by Morris Janowitz, has mostly been used to argue that residents living in a local neighborhood feel a sense of identification with that area to the extent that the symbolism of that neighborhood has been developed. This article extends Janowitz’s theory to apply to local associations and their efforts to create activities, movements, and products that encourage residents to expand their sense of symbolic attachment to a place. We argue that this organizational method has long been used by local associations but it has not been recognized as an organizational theory. Because associations have used this approach over time, communities have a historical legacy of organizing and symbol creating efforts by many local associations. Over time they have competed, collaborated, and together developed a collective vision of place. They also have created a local interorganizational field and this field of interacting associations and organizations is dense with what we call associational social capital. Not all communities have this history of associational activity and associational social capital. Where it does exist, the field becomes an institutionalized feature of the community. This is what we mean by an institutional theory of community.
Author : Roger Soder
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0787960004
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (879 download)
Download or read book Developing Democratic Character in the Young written by Roger Soder and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2002-02-28 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sponsored by the Institute for Educational Inquiry How are students going to function effectively in a democratic society? This collection of original essays outlines the critical role of our schools in helping create the conditions necessary for a democracy--and helping create in students the characteristics or dispositions critical to maintaining a democracy.
Author : Jacqueline B. Mondros
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231067194
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Organizing for Power and Empowerment written by Jacqueline B. Mondros and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to help build powerful community organizations, empower ordinary citizens to become leaders, and bring about major social and economic change, this book offers a coherent practice-based framework for understanding social action, with power and empowerment at the center of analysis. Topics include recruiting members, consensus building, leadership, publicity, and fundraising.
Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309452961
Total Pages : 583 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Communities in Action written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.
Author : A. Schutz
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230118534
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Collective Action for Social Change written by A. Schutz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-04-11 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Community organizers build solidarity and collective power in fractured communities. They help ordinary people turn their private pain into public action, releasing hidden capacities for leadership and strategy. In Collective Action for Social Change , Aaron Schutz and Marie G. Sandy draw on their extensive experience participating in community organizing activities and teaching courses on the subject to empower novices to think like an organizers.
Author : Floyd Hunter
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Community Organization written by Floyd Hunter and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1977-10-28 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harry Specht
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Readings in Community Organization Practice written by Harry Specht and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1969 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Norman Walzer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351623451
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Collective Impact and Community Development Issues written by Norman Walzer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collective Impact is intended to help community leaders effectively engage participants in strategic planning initiatives and achieve desired results. It is a logical extension of, and builds on, earlier efforts that experienced difficulties helping groups implement actions identified in the planning processes. This book examines successful practices that apply Collective Impact principles to a variety of community development issues including reducing poverty, and similar topics. Contributing authors also examine techniques used in working with local groups to facilitate effective changes in their communities. The discussions focus on settings in which Collective Impact efforts are likely to succeed using a variety of case studies that vary by intent, purpose, and location. Discussions of involvement by community and campus partnerships, regional planning organizations, and other groups can affect the ways in which Collective Impact principles are applied and how well they work. The discussions conclude with transformational changes within Collective Impact, moving from the individual to the system and future directions for Collective Impact approaches. Practitioners and scholars alike will find the discussions of various approaches and outcomes using Collective Impact useful in designing future efforts to bring about community change. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Community Development.
