Community analysis and praxis : toward a grounded civil society /
Figueira-McDonough, Josefina
Community analysis and praxis : toward a grounded civil society / Josefina Figueira-McDonough. - xvii, 217 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-202) and index.
Community Construction and Social Change: In Search of a Working Definition. The Rural-Urban Divide. Alternative Conceptions of Community. Revisiting the Residential Community and Defining "Communalism" Implications for Theory and Practice -- Dimensions of Communalism: A Structural Framework. Dimensions Salient to Gameinschaft Theories: The Power of the Informal Organization. The Role of Local Organizations in the Structure of Territorial Communalism. The Growth of Interdependence and the Embedded Community. An Analytic Framework for the Structure of Territorial Communities. A Population-Organization Typology -- Heuristic Applications of the Population-Organization Framework. Community Types and the Prediction of Delinquent Rates. Implications of Community Analysis of Social Problems for Intervention. An Example of the Development and Expansion of the Multivariate Framework -- Focusing on Community as the Unit of Analysis: Varieties of Research. Research Parameters. Community Research on Obstacles of the Social Integration of Youth. Praxis Implications of Research Design, Measurement, and Findings -- The Growing Impact of Environment: Community as Dependent Variable. Economic Restructuring. Political Restructuring. Urban Restructuring. Localism in the Global Context -- Knowledge from Praxis. Public Programs Targeting Inner-City Communities. Limits and Contributions of Public Programs. From the Ground Up. Contributions of the Grassroots Approach to Community Practice -- Professional Models of Community Organization. Tradition and Early Concepts of Community Organization. The Period of Typologies and Systemic Representations of Intervention. Organizations, Grassroots, and Linkages in Social Work Strategies. The Growing Centrality of Community Economic Development. The Receding Role of Community Political Power -- In Search of the New Civil Society. The Meanings of Civil Society. The Resilience of the Rule of the Market. Local Communities and the Prospects of Democratic Reconstruction. The Two Dimensions of Social Capital. The Multicultural Context of Civil Society. 1. 2. 3. 4. Pt. 1. Pt. 2. Pt. 3. 5. 6. 7. 8.
1583910190 9781583910191
2001025264
Community development
Community organization
Social service
Urban poor--Services for
Social justice.
HN49.C6 / F54 2001
307
Community analysis and praxis : toward a grounded civil society / Josefina Figueira-McDonough. - xvii, 217 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-202) and index.
Community Construction and Social Change: In Search of a Working Definition. The Rural-Urban Divide. Alternative Conceptions of Community. Revisiting the Residential Community and Defining "Communalism" Implications for Theory and Practice -- Dimensions of Communalism: A Structural Framework. Dimensions Salient to Gameinschaft Theories: The Power of the Informal Organization. The Role of Local Organizations in the Structure of Territorial Communalism. The Growth of Interdependence and the Embedded Community. An Analytic Framework for the Structure of Territorial Communities. A Population-Organization Typology -- Heuristic Applications of the Population-Organization Framework. Community Types and the Prediction of Delinquent Rates. Implications of Community Analysis of Social Problems for Intervention. An Example of the Development and Expansion of the Multivariate Framework -- Focusing on Community as the Unit of Analysis: Varieties of Research. Research Parameters. Community Research on Obstacles of the Social Integration of Youth. Praxis Implications of Research Design, Measurement, and Findings -- The Growing Impact of Environment: Community as Dependent Variable. Economic Restructuring. Political Restructuring. Urban Restructuring. Localism in the Global Context -- Knowledge from Praxis. Public Programs Targeting Inner-City Communities. Limits and Contributions of Public Programs. From the Ground Up. Contributions of the Grassroots Approach to Community Practice -- Professional Models of Community Organization. Tradition and Early Concepts of Community Organization. The Period of Typologies and Systemic Representations of Intervention. Organizations, Grassroots, and Linkages in Social Work Strategies. The Growing Centrality of Community Economic Development. The Receding Role of Community Political Power -- In Search of the New Civil Society. The Meanings of Civil Society. The Resilience of the Rule of the Market. Local Communities and the Prospects of Democratic Reconstruction. The Two Dimensions of Social Capital. The Multicultural Context of Civil Society. 1. 2. 3. 4. Pt. 1. Pt. 2. Pt. 3. 5. 6. 7. 8.
1583910190 9781583910191
2001025264
Community development
Community organization
Social service
Urban poor--Services for
Social justice.
HN49.C6 / F54 2001
307