Community Matter: An Exploration of Theory and Practice - Softcover

Kempers, Margot

 
9780830415687: Community Matter: An Exploration of Theory and Practice
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0830415688 ISBN 13: 9780830415687
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2001

Synopsis

Community Matters is unique in its use of a contextualized, interactionist approach to analyze the nature and extent of community. Its theoretical discussion of community as process is expanded through the inclusion of arguments raised in political science and philosophy, and is balanced by descriptive analyses of a diverse selection of communities. This book helps bridge the divide between works of academic argument concerning civil society and community life and books explicitly focused on presenting practical information on what is and is not effective in community work.
Community Matters shifts attention away from a conceptualization of community as a fixed evolutionary stage identified with specific types of settings, and instead provides numerous illustrations of the dynamic quality of social ties and community life. This book convinces readers that they can and should study community and community matters.
A Burnham Publishers book

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Review

Kemper has done an excellent job examining the multiple elements of this complex sociological concept as a process from as interactionist perspective. Her use of case material to explore and illustrate various aspects of community is a real strength of this book. (Lee H. Staples, MSW, PhD, clinical professor, Boston University of Social Work)

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Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Publication date
2001
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0830415688
ISBN 13 
9780830415687
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
194