Key Concepts in Community Studies

AvTony Blackshaw

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

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"This book is both insightful and engaging, enriched with diverse and up-to-date readings. Tony Blackshaw lays bare debates surrounding the uses and abuses of key concepts of community studies and breathes new life into community as theory and community studies as method."
- Peter Bramham, Leeds Metropolitan University

"I would highly recommend this book to any student who is studying communities and groups in society. The book and chapters are structured in a way that students will find it easy to move from one theme to another; to dip into relevant chapters when needed; to gain a good understanding of concepts and how and why they are applied to individuals and communities. The book encompasses both breadth and depth of key concepts and issues. This book will be compulsory reading on our Community Studies degree."
- Lesley Groom, University of Bolton

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 community studies 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 an invaluable 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2009-10-29
Mått:148 x 210 x 16 mm
Vikt:410 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:SAGE Key Concepts series
Antal sidor:232
Upplaga:1
Förlag:SAGE Publications
ISBN:9781412928434

Utforska kategorier

Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Tony Blackshaw is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Sport & Leisure at Sheffield Hallam University and author of The SAGE Dictionary of Leisure Studies (SAGE, 2009) and Zygmunt Bauman (Routledge ′Key Sociologists′, 2005)

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This book is both insightful and engaging, enriched with diverse and up-to-date readings. Tony Blackshaw lays bare debates surrounding the uses and abuses of key concepts of community studies and breathes new life into community as theory and community studies as method.

Innehållsförteckning

Setting the Record Straight: What Is Community? And What Does It Mean Today?Community as TheoryA Theory of CommunityHermeneutic CommunitiesLiquid Modern CommunitiesPostmodern CommunitiesCommunity as MethodAction ResearchCommunity ProfilingCommunity StudiesEthnographySocial Network AnalysisCommunity as PlaceCosmopolitanism, Worldliness and the Cultural IntermediariesLiminality, Communitas and Anti-StructureLocality, Place and NeighbourhoodVirtual CommunitiesCommunity as Identity/BelongingCommunity and IdentityImagined CommunitiesNeo-Tribes See Setting the Record Straight, Leisure and Its Communities, Liquid Modern Communities and Liminality, Communitas and Anti-StructureNew Social Movements See Community ActionPersonal Communities See Setting the Record Straight, Social Network Analysis and Virtual CommunitiesThe Symbolic Construction of CommunityCommunity as IdeologyCommunitarianismCommunity Politics See Political Community and Community ActionImaginary CommunitiesNostalgiaThe ′Dark Side′ of CommunityUtopia See Imaginary CommunitiesCommunity as Policy and PracticeCommunity ActionCommunity DevelopmentCommunity PartnershipsCommunity Policy See Political CommunityCommunity Practice See Community Development, Community Youth Work, Leisure and Its CommunitiesCommunity RegenerationCommunity Youth WorkLeisure and Its CommunitiesPolitical CommunitySocial Capital