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Author |
: Larry Lyon |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 324 |
Release |
: 1989 |
ISBN-10 |
: IND:39000008100898 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Community in Urban Society by : Larry Lyon
"The community is one of the most important and interesting fields in social science, yet in some ways it is a field that doesn't exist. It is difficult to say exactly where community research and theory merge into urban sociology, local politics, rural development, regional studies, formal organizations, or any number of other related fields of inquiry. It's even difficult to say precisely what a community is. Yet no field was more instrumental than community studies in influencing the early development of sociology. When Robert Park and his colleagues at the University of Chicago established the academic legitimacy of sociology, the community was their primary unit of analysis. Accordingly, few fields cover more important philosophical, epistemological, or practical concerns than community sociology. The community is that special place where theory and the "real" world come together. And further, I believe than no field holds greater promise for those with a reformist bent. You can't save the world, but you can improve a community! I try to communicate these exceptional aspects of community sociology in this book."--
Author |
: Larry Lyon |
Publisher |
: Waveland Press |
Total Pages |
: 297 |
Release |
: 2011-12-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781478609414 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1478609419 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Community in Urban Society by : Larry Lyon
The community is more than an abstract object of theoretical inquiry. It is also a place where people live. It is difficult to determine where community research and theory merge, because the community is a unique place where theory and the real world come together. Local conditions change and new research techniques emerge. In the second edition of The Community in Urban Society, the authors solve this problem by distilling the historic and foundational theories of community, applying traditional approaches (typology, ecology, systems theory, and conflict theory) to current conditions, and exploring new and relevant theories that impact todays communities. The latest edition also examines recent and emerging technologies that facilitate examination and evaluation of the modern community condition. Updated coverage includes topics such as New Urbanism, modern network analysis methods, the urban political economy approach to community, the growth machine approach, GIS mapping, recent holistic studies, cyberspace communities, and up-to-date discussions of community indicator studies, quality of life, community power, and regime politics.
Author |
: Larry J. Lyon |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 276 |
Release |
: 1987-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0534106846 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780534106843 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis Community in Urban Society by : Larry J. Lyon
Author |
: Gregory M. Fulkerson |
Publisher |
: Lexington Books |
Total Pages |
: 307 |
Release |
: 2013-12-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780739178775 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0739178776 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis Studies in Urbanormativity by : Gregory M. Fulkerson
The world has been witnessing a long unfolding process of urbanization that not only has altered the structural basis of society in terms of political economy, but has also symbolically relegated rural people and life to a secondary or deviant status through an ideology of urbanormativity. Both structural and cultural changes rooted in urbanization are connected in complex ways to spatial arrangements that can be described in terms of inequality and uneven development. Through a focus on localities, Studies in Urbanormativity: Rural Community in Urban Society examines the implications of urbanization and its corresponding ideology. Urbanormativity justifies rural domination by holding urban life as the standard against which rural forms are compared and deemed to be irregular, inferior, or deviant. Urban production, as conceptualized in this book, is inherently exploitative of rural resources—natural, social, cultural, and symbolic. As this exploitation advances, a wake of entropic conditions is left behind in the forms of degraded landscapes, broken social institutions, and denigrated communities, cultures and identities. Edited by Gregory M. Fulkerson and Alexander R. Thomas, Studies in Urbanormativity engages a topic on which scholars have been surprisingly silent. Designed for advancing theory and practice, the chapters provide new theoretical tools for understanding the complex relationship between the urban and rural. While primarily intended for scholars and practitioners interested in rural life, rural policy, and community development, the insights of this book will also be of interest to scholars studying various forms of cultural and social domination, as well as identity politics.
Author |
: Alan S. Berger |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 544 |
Release |
: 1978 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0697075559 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780697075550 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis The City by : Alan S. Berger
Author |
: Robert Mark Silverman |
Publisher |
: Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages |
: 240 |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0814331572 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780814331576 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis Community-based Organizations by : Robert Mark Silverman
In response to the ongoing debate over the role social capital plays in the creation and continuation of a healthy civic culture, Community-Based Organizations in Contemporary Urban Society studies the close relationship that social capital shares with local context, social organization, and institutional structure. The book's timely analysis illuminates the institutional barriers currently affecting the mobilization of social capital and establishes a foundation for social and political reform in the future. All components of capital formation--including human, financial, and cultural capital--are identified and considered as they relate to the community development process, as well as how social capital relates to race, class, gender, and religion in urban society. Community-Based Organizations in Contemporary Urban Society offers vital extensions to existing literature on social capital and allows the reader to consider this topic from multiple perspectives through its broad spectrum of interdisciplinary essays by sociologists, political scientists, and urban planners. The essays discuss important steps in the mobilization of social capital, as well as its role in microfinance programs, community development corporations, homeowners associations, religious institutions, and neighborhood associations. Individual chapters present an array of theoretical arguments, empirical analysis, and applied case studies that are of interest to academics, practitioners, and activists in the community development field.
Author |
: Larry Lyon |
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: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:780115697 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis Community in Urban Society by : Larry Lyon
Author |
: Talja Blokland |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 157 |
Release |
: 2017-05-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781509504855 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1509504850 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis Community as Urban Practice by : Talja Blokland
Community is a central idea in urban studies but remains conceptually vague and empirically difficult to work with. Building on existing theories of community, Talja Blokland offers an important contribution to defining and understanding this key theme. Blokland argues that there has been too much focus on community as a stable construct, formed by durable relationships with kin, friends, social groups or neighbours. She draws attention to the non-durable, fluid encounters that constitute community, theorizing communities as shared urban practices in a globalizing world. The book proposes two core ways of thinking about community: the dimension of familiarity, defined by our ability to construct identities, and the dimension of access, defined by our freedom to enter and leave urban spaces. These dimensions form various urban configurations which enable us to experience and practise community in diverse ways. As this book maintains, community is after all an urban practice, not a fixed state of affairs.
Author |
: Peter Neal |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages |
: 648 |
Release |
: 2003-11-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134504107 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1134504101 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Urban Villages and the Making of Communities by : Peter Neal
This book documents both the roots of the Urban Village movement and its application in contemporary society. A series of essays by eminent practitioners offers particular urban perspectives.
Author |
: Noel P. Gist |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 648 |
Release |
: 1964 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0690853041 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780690853049 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis Urban Society by : Noel P. Gist