Handbook of community movements and local organizations in the 21st century. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Community movements and local organizations in the 21st century
• Further Information: Note: Ram A. Cnaan, Carl Milofsky, editors.
• Editors: Cnaan, Ram A; Milofsky, Carl
• Contents: Intro; Community Action and Practice: An Introduction; Associations; The Origin of the Book; Teaching; Plan of the Book; Our Community; Reference; Contents; Community Theory; 1 Conceptualizing Community; Abstract; 1.1 The Great Transformation; 1.2 The Fracturing of Community; 1.3 The Fractured Focusing on Community; 1.4 Constructing Communities; 1.4.1 From Community Organization to Community Organizing; 1.5 To What End?; 1.5.1 Ideological Communities: Merging Utopian Communities and Ideological Social Movements; 1.5.2 Mutual Interdependence of Social Movements and Communities 1.6 Caveats of Community Conceptualizing Ambivalence and Ambiguity in the Fractured Community; 1.7 Conclusion; Bibliography; 2 Community at Work: Sensing Community Through Needs Fulfillment and Responsibility; Abstract; 2.1 Historical Roots of Defining a Sense of Community; 2.2 Historical Roots of Measuring a Sense of Community; 2.3 Community at Work: How the Literature on a Sense of Community Changed; 2.4 Application of Community Experiences to Local Organizations And Community Movements; 2.5 Exporting Sense of Community to the Management Literature 2.6 Empirical Advances in Community Experiences at Work: Answering the "So What?" Question; 2.7 Final Thoughts; References; 3 Community Climate: Adapting Climate Theory to the Study of Communities; Abstract; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Organizational Climate; 3.3 Levels of Analysis in Climate; 3.3.1 Community Level; 3.4 The Emergence of Climate Within Communities; 3.5 Composition of a Multi-level Model of Community Climate; 3.6 The Application of Climate in Communities and Community Practice; 3.7 Community Climate, Strengths, and Weaknesses 3.8 Recognition of Climate in the Community (Community Facets)3.9 Community Climate and Sense of Community; 3.10 Climate as a Predictor of Social Behaviors; 3.11 Linkage Between Organizations and Communities; 3.12 Community Leadership and Community Climate; 3.13 Examples of Community Climate; 3.13.1 Community Road Safety Climate; 3.13.2 Participatory Climate; 3.13.3 Political Community Climate; 3.13.4 Climate of Education; 3.13.5 Homophobic Community Climate; 3.13.6 A Climate of Adolescent Violence; 3.14 Applications: Community Climate Supports Community Change; 3.15 Conclusion; References 4 Reading Social Symbol Systems; Abstract; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Community and Meaning; 4.3 Being Amish; 4.4 The Symbol; 4.4.1 Semantics; 4.4.2 Syntactics; 4.4.3 Pragmatics; 4.5 Symbols and Their Social Functions; 4.5.1 Types of Symbols; 4.5.2 Watching Symbols in Use; 4.6 Forms of Symbolic Presentation; 4.6.1 Music; 4.6.2 Ritual; 4.6.3 Performance; 4.6.4 Signs; 4.6.5 Narratives; 4.6.6 Language; 4.6.7 Style; 4.7 The Use of Symbol Systems in Social Research; 4.8 Case Studies; 4.8.1 Policing the Boundaries of Group Identity; 4.8.2 Defining 'Other': Symbolic Formulation of Difference
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (some color), color maps
• Subjects: 307; Social sciences; Community organization -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Associations, institutions, etc -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Communities -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General; Associations, institutions, etc; Communities; Community organization; Business & Economics -- Nonprofit Organizations & Charities; Psychology -- Social Psychology; Law -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice; Non-profitmaking organizations; Social, group or collective psychology; Public administration; Nonprofit organizations; Applied psychology; Public administration; Social Science -- Sociology -- General; Sociology: work & labour; Electronic books; Electronic books; Handbooks and manuals
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319774169; 3319774166
• Related ISBNs: 9783319774152; 3319774158
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 6, 2018).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.