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Community Intervention

Clinical Sociology Perspectives

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Editors:
  1. Jan Marie Fritz

    1. University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, USA

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  2. Jacques Rhéaume

    1. Université du Québec a Montréal, Montréal, Canada

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  • Distinguished Scholarly Book Award received from the Clinical Sociology Division of the International Sociological Association
  • Presents an interdisciplinary social science perspective
  • Focuses on intervention as well as research in communities
  • Includes domestic and international coverage
  • Identifies important concepts, tools and methods
  • Covers important historical benchmarks for community intervention while focusing on the new and innovative
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Clinical Sociology: Research and Practice (CSRP)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introduction to the Volume

    • Jan Marie Fritz, Jacques Rhéaume
    Pages 1-12

  3. The Basics of Community Practice

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. Essentials of Community Intervention

      • Jan Marie Fritz
      Pages 15-30

    3. Research for the Community

      • Jacques Rhéaume
      Pages 31-43

    4. The Researcher’s Mark: What Researchers Bring to Communities, and What May or May Not be Left Behind When Their Work is Done

      • Jenifer Cartland, Holly S. Ruch-Ross
      Pages 45-56

  4. Selected Applications

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 57-57
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    2. Community Development and Empowerment: A Clinical Sociology Perspective

      • Jacques Rhéaume
      Pages 59-72

    3. The Healthy Cities/Communities Movement: The Global Diffusion of Local Initiatives

      • Harry Perlstadt
      Pages 73-93

    4. Cultural Encounters: A Research-Intervention Approach for Working with Immigrants in the Community

      • Catherine Montgomery, Spyridoula Xenocostas, Vania Jimenez
      Pages 95-110

    5. Coeducation in the Popular/Neighbourhood Districts of Marseille

      • Pierre Roche
      Pages 111-129

    6. Economic Interventions in Communities: The Québec Case

      • Jean-Marc Fontan, Lucie Dumais
      Pages 131-147

    7. Climate Change Adaptation in Metro Manila: Community Risk Assessment and Power in Community Interventions

      • Emma Porio
      Pages 149-166

    8. Human Rights Cities: The Transformation of Communities, or Simply Treading Water?

      • Judith Blau
      Pages 167-180

    9. Involving Residents in the Design of Urban Renewal Projects Based upon a Generative Analysis of Social Processes

      • Michel Bonetti, Jean-Didier Laforgue
      Pages 181-200

    10. Riding Off into the Sunset? Establishing an Inclusive Post-Apartheid South African Community

      • Tina Uys
      Pages 201-219

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 221-246
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About this book

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.     

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Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, USA

    Jan Marie Fritz

  • Université du Québec a Montréal, Montréal, Canada

    Jacques Rhéaume

About the editors

Jan Marie Fritz, Ph.D., a Certified Clinical Sociologist (CCS), is Professor of Health Policy and Planning in the School of Planning at the University of Cincinnati. She also is affiliated with the Department of Women's Studies and the Department of Sociology. She is the author or editor of more than 90 publications including six editions of The Clinical Sociology Resource Book and publications on mediation in French and Italian. She is a vice president of the International Sociological Association (an approximately 4000 member organization based in Spain) and a former president of national and international practice organizations. She has been a mediator for 25 years for small claims, equal employment opportunity, special education and workplace disputes. She also has facilitated organizational and community meetings concerned with dispute analysis and resolution. She teaches mediation and environmental dispute resolution at the University of Cincinnati, has trained mediators in Italy and the United States, is a former member of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's, National Environmental Justice Advisory Council's committee on research and health and has given presentations about mediation in many countries including Australia, Greece, Venezuela, South Africa and Japan.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Community Intervention

  • Book Subtitle: Clinical Sociology Perspectives

  • Editors: Jan Marie Fritz, Jacques Rhéaume

  • Series Title: Clinical Sociology: Research and Practice

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0998-8

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-4976-2Published: 10 September 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4939-0998-8Published: 19 August 2014

  • Series ISSN: 1566-7847

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 246

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Sociology, general, Demography

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