Handbook of Community Movements and Local Organizations in the 21st Century [Hardcover]

This new handbook builds on The Handbook of Community Movements and Local Organizations published in 2007, and is the only resource defining the field of study related to small nonprofit organizations and to studying communities from the standpoint of associations that make up communities. It explores the history and conceptualizations of community, theoretical concepts in community organizations, social movements ranging from health to crime, and community practice methods. Further it provides authoritative statements of major theory areas, gives examples of different sub areas of the field, provides guidance to people working as practitioners in the field, and nicely coincides with the increasing interest in clinical sociology. This handbook is of great interest to academics, students and practitioners with an interdisciplinary resource to understand and collaborate in work with contemporary communities. Introductory Chapter; Ram Cnaan, Carl Milofsky and Albert Hunter.- Part I. History and Conceptualizations of Community.- Chapter 1. Conceptualizing Community; Albert Hunter.- Chapter 2. Community at Work: Sensing Community Through Needs Fulfillment and Responsibility; Neil Boyd and Branda Nowell.- Chapter 3. Community Climate: Adapting Climate Theory to the Study of Communities; Gil Luria, Amnon Boehm and Ram A. Cnaan.- Chapter 4. Reading Social Symbol Systems; Ben Marsh and Janet Jones.- Chapter 5. Community Elites or Community Elitism?: The Democratic Challenge of Empowering Community; Stephen Danley.- Chapter 6. Disengagement and Alienation in Modern American Institutions; Jennifer Silva.- Part II. Theoretical Concepts in community Organizations.- Chapter 7. Systemic Theories of Associations: Macro and Meso Approaches; Carl Milofsky.- Chapter 8. PCreating Participatory Democratic Decision-Making in Local Organizations; Joyce Rothschild.- Chapter lÃÊ