Overview
- The most comprehensive handbook about communities in the 21st century
- Provides a deep understanding of community, community organization, and practical work within and for communities
- Presents a variety of aspects of community from various disciplinary perspectives
Part of the book series: Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research (HSSR)
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Table of contents (32 chapters)
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Community Theory
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Associations
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Social and Community Practice
Keywords
- Conceptualizing Community
- Community at Work
- Developing Communities in Organizational Settings
- Community and Personal Identity
- Community Social Work
- Climate Theory and the Study of Communities
- Community and Social Movement Organizations
- Community-Labor Partnerships for Social and Economic Justice
- Local Communities and Organizational Development
- Management of Volunteers in Community Organizations
- National Association of School Psychologists
- Community Empowerment
- Community Organizing in the Information Age
- Politics of Transnational Community Development
- Promoting Spatial Equity
- Community Approaches for Addressing Crime and Violence
- Community and Environmental Design
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Carl Milofsky has an interest in communities, community organizing, and
ways to mobilize small community organizations. As one of the original members of Yale’s Program on Nonprofit Organizations, his niche in the nonprofit research community has been community organizations. He has authored several books on that subject and he has served as editor of the NONPROFIT AND VOLUNTARY SECTOR QUARTERLY. Milofsky also focuses on medical sociology, which is one of his main teaching areas. He is particularly interested in how community structures affect the health of residents and he partners in his work with professionals from local health and social welfare organizations.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of Community Movements and Local Organizations in the 21st Century
Editors: Ram A. Cnaan, Carl Milofsky
Series Title: Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77416-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-77415-2Published: 08 June 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08450-9Published: 10 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-77416-9Published: 22 May 2018
Series ISSN: 1389-6903
Series E-ISSN: 2542-839X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 549
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations
Topics: Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Non-Profit Organizations and Public Enterprises, Community and Environmental Psychology, Public Administration