Overview
- 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)
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The Basics of Community Practice
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Selected Applications
Keywords
- Approaches to Community Intervention
- Civil Society Involvement
- Clinical Sociology and Teaching
- Clinical Sociology in Colombia
- Community Coalition
- Community Development Research
- Community Development and Empowerment
- Community Engaged Research
- Community and Clinical Sociology
- Community-Based Intervention
- Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR)
- Essentials of Community Intervention
- Generative Analysis and Urban Renewal
- Health and Social Services
- Human Rights and Participatory Democracy
- Human Rights in Kenya
- Immigration and Intercultural Intervention
- Industrial Areas Foundation
- Orlando Fals-Borda
- Participatory Action Research
- Popular Education and Parenthood
- Saul Alinsky
- Sharing Knowledge in the Community
- Social Movement
- Wangari Maathai
- Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
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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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