Handbook of Community Movements and Local Organizations in the 21st Century

✍ Scribed by Ram A. Cnaan, Carl Milofsky

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 543
• Series: Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
Conceptualizing Community (Albert Hunter)....Pages 3-23
Community at Work: Sensing Community Through Needs Fulfillment and Responsibility (Neil M. Boyd, Branda Nowell)....Pages 25-39
Community Climate: Adapting Climate Theory to the Study of Communities (Gil Luria, Amnon Boehm, Ram A. Cnaan)....Pages 41-59
Reading Social Symbol Systems (Ben Marsh, Janet Jones)....Pages 61-77
Community Elites or Community Elitism? the Democratic Challenge of Empowering Community (Stephen Danley)....Pages 79-94
Disengagement and Alienation in Modern American Institutions (Jennifer M. Silva)....Pages 95-106
Front Matter ....Pages 107-107
Systemic Theories of Associations: Macro and Meso Approaches (Carl Milofsky)....Pages 109-125
Creating Participatory Democratic Decision-Making in Local Organizations (Joyce Rothschild)....Pages 127-140
Client Authority in Nonprofit Human Service Organizations (Lehn M. Benjamin)....Pages 141-154
Community-Labor Coalitions (Scott Harding, Louise Simmons)....Pages 155-169
A Field Guide to Organizations “In the Wild:” Moving Beyond Restrictive Organization Theory for Associations (Jordi Comas)....Pages 171-187
Legitimacy as the Basis for Organizational Development of Voluntary Organizations (Davide Gnes, Floris Vermeulen)....Pages 189-209
About the Localized Social Movement (Randy Stoecker)....Pages 211-227
Volunteers in Community Organizations (Christopher J. Einolf)....Pages 229-242
Front Matter ....Pages 243-243
Community Practice and Community Organization: A Conceptual Understanding (Haya Itzhaky, Edna Bustin)....Pages 245-263
Community Empowerment (Stephen W. Stoeffler)....Pages 265-280
Contested Community: A Selected and Critical History of Community Organizing (Robert Fisher, James DeFilippis, Eric Shragge)....Pages 281-297
Alinsky Style Organizing (Margaret A. Post)....Pages 299-308
Self Help Organized Through Mutual Assistance in Helping Communities (Steven P. Segal)....Pages 309-322
Promoting Spatial Inclusion: How Everyday Places Signal Who Is Welcome (Amy Hillier)....Pages 323-336
Intentional Sub-communities and Identity Continuity Among Baby Boomers: Grateful Dead Fans (Rebecca G. Adams, Justin T. Harmon)....Pages 337-351
Front Matter ....Pages 353-353
Hometown Associations and Transnational Community Development (Deepak Lamba-Nieves)....Pages 355-369
The Community Resilience Approach to Disaster Recovery: Strategies Communities Can Use (Jennifer Shea)....Pages 371-390
Religious Congregations as Community Hubs and Sources of Social Bonding (Ram A. Cnaan, H. Daniel Heist)....Pages 391-403
Community-Based Action for Food Justice (Michele A. Kelley, Rachael D. Dombrowski)....Pages 405-422
Improving Health in or of the Community? (Brandn Green, Kristal Jones)....Pages 423-435
Schools as Community Institutions (Carl Milofsky)....Pages 437-446
The Case for Functional Pedagogical Skills in School Psychology Training: An Empirical Investigation (Amy F. Golightly)....Pages 447-466
Front Matter ....Pages 467-467
Community Approaches for Addressing Crime and Violence: Prevention, Intervention, and Restoration (Tracy M. Soska, Mary L. Ohmer)....Pages 469-496
Community Needs Assessments (Heather S. Feldhaus, Paul Deppen III)....Pages 497-510
Social Issues as a Focus of Community Studies (Katherine Anne MacTavish)....Pages 511-526
Qualitative Methods: Tools for Understanding and Engaging Communities (Rosemary Frasso, Shimrit Keddem, Jesse M. Golinkoff)....Pages 527-549

✦ Subjects

Social Sciences; Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology; Non-Profit Organizations and Public Enterprises; Community and Environmental Psychology; Public Administration