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Handbook of Community Movements and Local Organizations
. Ed(S): Cnaan, Ram A.; Milofsky, Carl
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Hardback. This handbook takes voluntary associations as the starting point for making sense of communities. It offers a new perspective on voluntary organizations and gives an integrated, yet diverse, theoretical understanding of this important aspect of community life. Editor(s): Cnaan, Ram A.; Milofsky, Carl. Series: Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research. Num Pages: 436 pages, 9 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: JKSN1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 25. Weight in Grams: 997.
Creating a Frame for Understanding Local Organizations RAM CNAAN, CARL MILOFSKY, AND ALBERT HUNTER In this book, scholars from anumber of disciplines present work focused on communities, with particular attention to community organizations. A few scholars have emphasized the imp- tance of the need to map this intellectual territory (Calhoun, 1992). In some ways community study seems to be well trodden ground; there has been influential work on social capital, for example (Coleman, 1987,1988; Putnam, 1995; Foley and Edwards, 1997; Edwards and Foley, 1998). Yet the rich diversity of communities and community organizations has rarely been studied from a perspective ... Read more
Creating a Frame for Understanding Local Organizations RAM CNAAN, CARL MILOFSKY, AND ALBERT HUNTER In this book, scholars from anumber of disciplines present work focused on communities, with particular attention to community organizations. A few scholars have emphasized the imp- tance of the need to map this intellectual territory (Calhoun, 1992). In some ways community study seems to be well trodden ground; there has been influential work on social capital, for example (Coleman, 1987,1988; Putnam, 1995; Foley and Edwards, 1997; Edwards and Foley, 1998). Yet the rich diversity of communities and community organizations has rarely been studied from a perspective ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
436
Condition
New
Series
Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research
Number of Pages
436
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9780387329321
SKU
V9780387329321
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