Key Concepts in Community Studies

✍ Scribed by Tony Blackshaw

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Ltd.
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Leaves: 232
Series: SAGE Key Concepts
Edition: First Edition
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book defines the current identity of community studies, provides a critical but reliable introduction to its key concepts, and is an engaging guide to the key social research methods used by community researchers and practitioners. Concise but clear, it caters for the needs of those interested in community studies by offering cross-referenced, accessible overviews of the key theoretical issues that have the most influence on community studies today. It incorporates all of the important frames of reference including those which are theoretical, research focused, practice and policy oriented, political, and concerned about the place of community in everyday life.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Acknowledgements......Page 6
contents......Page 8
Introduction and User’s Guide......Page 10
Setting the Record Straight: What Is Community? And What Does it Mean Today?......Page 14
Community as Theory......Page 28
Community as Method......Page 57
Community as Place......Page 92
Community as Identity/Belonging......Page 121
Community as Ideology......Page 139
Community as Policy and Practice......Page 166
index......Page 224

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