TY  - BOOK
AU  - Figueira-McDonough,Josefina
TI  - Community analysis and praxis: toward a grounded civil society 
SN  - 1583910190
AV  - HN49.C6 F54 2001
U1  - 307 
PY  - 2001///]
CY  - Philadelphia
PB  - Brunner-Routledge
KW  - Community development
KW  - Community organization
KW  - Social service
KW  - Urban poor
KW  - Services for
KW  - Social justice
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-202) and index; 1; 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 --; 2; 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 --; 3; 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 --; 4; Focusing on Community as the Unit of Analysis: Varieties of Research; Pt. 1; Research Parameters; Pt. 2; Community Research on Obstacles of the Social Integration of Youth; Pt. 3; Praxis Implications of Research Design, Measurement, and Findings --; 5; The Growing Impact of Environment: Community as Dependent Variable; Economic Restructuring; Political Restructuring; Urban Restructuring; Localism in the Global Context --; 6; 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 --; 7; 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 --; 8; 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
ER  -