Author: John G. Bruhn
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400716338
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Many of our current social problems have been attributed to the breakdown or loss of community as a place and to the fragmentation of connections due to an extreme value of individualism in the Western world, particularly in the United States. Not all scholars and researchers agree that individualism and technology are the primary culprits in the loss of community as it existed in the middle decade of the 20th century. Nonetheless, people exist in groups, and connections are vital to their existence and in the daily performance of activities. The second edition of the Sociology of Community Connections will identify and help students understand community connectedness in the present and future.
The Sociology of Community Connections
Author: John G. Bruhn
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400716338
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Many of our current social problems have been attributed to the breakdown or loss of community as a place and to the fragmentation of connections due to an extreme value of individualism in the Western world, particularly in the United States. Not all scholars and researchers agree that individualism and technology are the primary culprits in the loss of community as it existed in the middle decade of the 20th century. Nonetheless, people exist in groups, and connections are vital to their existence and in the daily performance of activities. The second edition of the Sociology of Community Connections will identify and help students understand community connectedness in the present and future.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400716338
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Many of our current social problems have been attributed to the breakdown or loss of community as a place and to the fragmentation of connections due to an extreme value of individualism in the Western world, particularly in the United States. Not all scholars and researchers agree that individualism and technology are the primary culprits in the loss of community as it existed in the middle decade of the 20th century. Nonetheless, people exist in groups, and connections are vital to their existence and in the daily performance of activities. The second edition of the Sociology of Community Connections will identify and help students understand community connectedness in the present and future.
The Sociology of Community
Author: Colin Bell
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0714629707
Category : Communities
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0714629707
Category : Communities
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
21st Century Sociology: A Reference Handbook
Author: Clifton D. Bryant
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1412916089
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1346
Book Description
Publisher Description
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1412916089
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1346
Book Description
Publisher Description
Community Studies
Author: Colin Bell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Communities and Organizations
Author: Chris Marquis
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN: 1780522843
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Considers how diverse types of communities influence organizations, as well as the associated benefit of developing an accounting for community processes in organizational theory. This title focuses on social proximity and networks that has characterized the work on communities.
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN: 1780522843
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Considers how diverse types of communities influence organizations, as well as the associated benefit of developing an accounting for community processes in organizational theory. This title focuses on social proximity and networks that has characterized the work on communities.
Practicing Sociology in the Community
Author: Phyllis Ann Langton
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN:
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
To be used as a supplemental text for introductory courses in sociology and/or social problems or as support text for students enrolled in a community-based or internship program. Designed to help inform and guide students who are engaged in community based learning programs, this supplemental text strives to teach students how to effectively and compassionately practice sociology in the community. Organized to facilitate students' abilities to connect classroom learning with fieldwork in the community, this guide prompts students to reflect upon their community experiences and discover what those experiences signify to them personally and to the development of sociological knowledge.
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN:
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
To be used as a supplemental text for introductory courses in sociology and/or social problems or as support text for students enrolled in a community-based or internship program. Designed to help inform and guide students who are engaged in community based learning programs, this supplemental text strives to teach students how to effectively and compassionately practice sociology in the community. Organized to facilitate students' abilities to connect classroom learning with fieldwork in the community, this guide prompts students to reflect upon their community experiences and discover what those experiences signify to them personally and to the development of sociological knowledge.
Community Intervention
Author: Jan Marie Fritz
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1493909983
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Community Intervention: Clinical Sociology Perspectives showcases important efforts to improve the quality of life in communities around the world. The book, a project of the clinical sociology division of the International Sociological Association, describes the interdisciplinary field of clinical sociology in relation to community improvement. The first part of the book covers important concepts and tools for community intervention and identifies a variety of approaches to community research with an emphasis on research that centrally involves community members. The chapters in the second part of the volume focus on projects in a broad range of countries, covering topics such as involving residents in urban renewal projects, developing healthy communities, encouraging socioeconomic development, improving the life of immigrants, helping communities deal with climate change, establishing human rights cities, encouraging empowerment and creating an inclusive community. A unique feature of the book is the inclusion of profiles about some of the outstanding work in community intervention over the last 100 years. These profiles are of Nobel Peace Prize winner Jane Addams; community activist Saul Alinsky; human rights and environmental activist Wangari Maathai and participatory action research pioneer Orlando Fals Borda. Written by scholar-practitioners as well as analysts, the book provides essential commentary regarding community intervention efforts.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1493909983
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Community Intervention: Clinical Sociology Perspectives showcases important efforts to improve the quality of life in communities around the world. The book, a project of the clinical sociology division of the International Sociological Association, describes the interdisciplinary field of clinical sociology in relation to community improvement. The first part of the book covers important concepts and tools for community intervention and identifies a variety of approaches to community research with an emphasis on research that centrally involves community members. The chapters in the second part of the volume focus on projects in a broad range of countries, covering topics such as involving residents in urban renewal projects, developing healthy communities, encouraging socioeconomic development, improving the life of immigrants, helping communities deal with climate change, establishing human rights cities, encouraging empowerment and creating an inclusive community. A unique feature of the book is the inclusion of profiles about some of the outstanding work in community intervention over the last 100 years. These profiles are of Nobel Peace Prize winner Jane Addams; community activist Saul Alinsky; human rights and environmental activist Wangari Maathai and participatory action research pioneer Orlando Fals Borda. Written by scholar-practitioners as well as analysts, the book provides essential commentary regarding community intervention efforts.
Commitment and Community
Author: Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674145764
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Rosabeth Kanter offers a unique analysis of the nature and process of enduring commitment, basing her theory of commitment mechanisms on exhaustive research of nineteenth–century utopias, sharpened by first–hand knowledge of a variety of contemporary groups.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674145764
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Rosabeth Kanter offers a unique analysis of the nature and process of enduring commitment, basing her theory of commitment mechanisms on exhaustive research of nineteenth–century utopias, sharpened by first–hand knowledge of a variety of contemporary groups.
Sociology and Social Policy
Author: Herbert J. Gans
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231545096
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
This collection of recent essays by the influential sociologist Herbert J. Gans brings together the many themes of Gans’s wide-ranging career to make the case for a policy-oriented vision for sociology. Sociology and Social Policy explicates and helps solve social problems by presenting a range of studies on what people, institutions, and social structures do with, for, and against one another. These works from across Gans’s areas of interest—the city, poverty, ethnicity, employment and political economy, and the relationship between race and class—together make a powerful call to action for the field of sociology.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231545096
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
This collection of recent essays by the influential sociologist Herbert J. Gans brings together the many themes of Gans’s wide-ranging career to make the case for a policy-oriented vision for sociology. Sociology and Social Policy explicates and helps solve social problems by presenting a range of studies on what people, institutions, and social structures do with, for, and against one another. These works from across Gans’s areas of interest—the city, poverty, ethnicity, employment and political economy, and the relationship between race and class—together make a powerful call to action for the field of sociology.
American Society
Author: Talcott Parsons
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317263758
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 889
Book Description
Never before published, American Society is the product of Talcott Parsons' last major theoretical project. Completed just a few weeks before his death, this is Parsons' promised 'general book on American society'. It offers a systematic presentation and revision of Parson's landmark theoretical positions on modernity and the possibility of objective sociological knowledge. Even after the passage of many years, American Society imparts a remarkably provocative interpretation of US society and a creative approach to social theory.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317263758
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 889
Book Description
Never before published, American Society is the product of Talcott Parsons' last major theoretical project. Completed just a few weeks before his death, this is Parsons' promised 'general book on American society'. It offers a systematic presentation and revision of Parson's landmark theoretical positions on modernity and the possibility of objective sociological knowledge. Even after the passage of many years, American Society imparts a remarkably provocative interpretation of US society and a creative approach to social theory.