This innovative text demonstrates how social science theory and research can be applied to successful collaborative work with community groups. The 27 instructive case studies, framed by two introductory chapters and a concluding chapter, draw out the principles and perspectives underlying the case materials. Each case also concludes with extensive editorial commentary.
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Philip Nyden is Co-Chair of the ASA Task Force for Institutionalizing Public Sociologies. Dr. Nyden was appointed as Director of the Loyola University Center for Urban Research and Learning (CURL) in January 1996. Dr. Nyden has worked with the City of Chicago Commission on Human Relations, the Leadership Council for Metropolitan Open Communities, the Organization of the Northeast, the Howard Area Community Center, the Evanston Human Relations Commission, Hull House, and the Human Relations Foundation on a variety of projects aimed at promoting stable diverse neighborhoods, improving access to quality affordable housing, gaining an understanding of the needs of youth and families in our local community, and understanding business development in economically diverse communities.
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Saul Alinsky, one of America's best known community organizers, once said, "the word academic is synonymous for irrelevant" (Alinsky 1969, ix). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
youth consultants, collaborative research model, parent organizer, collaborative researchers, communitybased organizations, village banking, microenterprise development, traditional policing, collaborative research effort, credit cycles Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
African American, Rainbow House, Community Fellows Program, University of Illinois, Loyola University Chicago, Building Community, United States, Los Angeles, Policy Research Action Group, Leadership Council, University of California, Central State Hospital, San Quentin, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Chicago Legal Clinic, Choosing Non-Violence, San Francisco, Urban Affairs Center, Fellowship House, Head Start, University of Louisville, Urban Families Program, Calumet Basin, Chicago State University, Prevention Studies New!
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Saul Alinsky, one of America's best known community organizers, once said, "the word academic is synonymous for irrelevant" (Alinsky 1969, ix). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
youth consultants, collaborative research model, parent organizer, collaborative researchers, communitybased organizations, village banking, microenterprise development, traditional policing, collaborative research effort, credit cycles Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
African American, Rainbow House, Community Fellows Program, University of Illinois, Loyola University Chicago, Building Community, United States, Los Angeles, Policy Research Action Group, Leadership Council, University of California, Central State Hospital, San Quentin, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Chicago Legal Clinic, Choosing Non-Violence, San Francisco, Urban Affairs Center, Fellowship House, Head Start, University of Louisville, Urban Families Program, Calumet Basin, Chicago State University, Prevention Studies New!
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- Science for All Americans by F. James Rutherford on page 105, and Back Matter
- Silent Spring by Rachel Carson on page 27, and page 66
- Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 30th Anniversary Edition by Paulo Freire on page 17, and Back Matter
- Invitation to Sociology: A Humanistic Perspective by Peter L. Berger on page 5, and Back Matter
- The Downsizing of America by New York Times on page 15, and Back Matter
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- Liberation Sociology by Joe Feagin in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- University-community Partnerships: Universities In Civic Engagement by Tracy Soska on page 232, and page 239
- Changing Consumers and Changing Technology in Health Care and Health Care Delivery (Research in the Sociology of Health Care) by Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld on page 228
- The Silicon Valley of Dreams: Environmental Injustice, Immigrant Workers, and the High-Tech Global Economy (Critical America) by David Naguib Pellow in Back Matter
- Effective Professional Development Schools (Agenda for Education in a Democracy) by Richard W. Clark in Back Matter
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