This book defines the current identity of community studies, provides a critical but reliable introduction to its key concepts and is an engaging guide to the key social research methods used by community researchers and practitioners. Concise but clear, it caters for the needs of those interested in communitystudies by offering cross-referenced, accessible overviews of the key theoretical issues that have the most influence on community studies today It incorporates all of the important frames of reference including those which are: theoretical research focused practice and policy oriented political concerned about the place of community in everyday life. The extensive bibliographies and up-to-date guides to further reading reinforce the aim of the book to provide aninvaluable learning resource. Interdisciplinary in approach and inventive in its range of applications this book will be of value to students studying sociology, social policy, politics and community development. INDICE: Setting the Record Straight: What is Community? And What Does it Mean Today? / Community as Theory / A Theory of Community / Hermeneutic Communities / Liquid Modern Communities / Postmodern CommunitieS / Community as Method / Action Research / Community Profiling / Community Studies / Ethnography / Social Network Analysis / Community as Place / Cosmopolitanism, Worldliness and the Cultural Intermediaries / Liminality, Communitas and Anti-Structure / Locality, Place and Neighbourhood / Virtual Communities / Community as Identity//Belonging / Community and Identity / Imagined Communities / Neo Tribes see Setting the Record Straight, Leisure and its Communities, Liquid Modern Communities and Liminality, Communitas and Anti-Structure / New Social Movements see Community Action / Personal Communities see Setting the Record Straight, SocialNetwork Analysis and Virtual Communities / The Symbolic Construction of Community / Community as Ideology / Communitarianism / Community Politics see Political Community and Community Action / Imaginary Communities / Nostalgia / The 'Dark Side' of Community / Utopia see Imaginary Communities / Community as Policy and Practice / Community Action / Community Development / Community Partnerships / Community Policy see Political Community / Community Practice see Community Development, Community Youth Work, Leisure and its Communities / Community Regeneration / Community Youth Work / Leisure and its Communities / Political Community / Social Capital
- ISBN: 978-1-4129-2844-1
- Editorial: Sage Publications
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 232
- Fecha Publicación: 01/10/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés