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Author Blackshaw, Tony, 1960- author.

Title Key concepts in community studies / Tony Blackshaw.

Publication Info. Boston, Massachusetts : Credo Reference, 2013.
Los Angeles [California] : SAGE, 2010.

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Edition [Enhanced Credo edition].
Description 1 online resource (39 entries) ; digital files.
text rdacontent
electronic isbdmedia
online resource rdacarrier
Series Sage key concepts
SAGE key concepts.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Acknowledgements -- Introduction and User Guide -- Setting the Record Straight: What is Community? And What Does it Mean Today? -- Community as Theory -- A Theory of Community -- Hermeneutic Communities -- Liquid Modern Communities -- Postmodern Communities -- Community as Method -- Action Research -- Community Profiling -- Community Studies -- Ethnography -- Social Network Analysis -- Community as Place -- Cosmopolitanism, Worldliness and the Cultural Intermediaries -- Liminality, Communitas and Anti-Structure -- Locality, Place and Neighbourhood -- Virtual Communities -- Community as Identity/Belonging -- Community and Identity -- Imagined Communities -- The Symbolic Construction of Community -- Community as Ideology -- Communitarianism -- Imaginary Communities -- Nostalgia -- The 'Dark Side' of Community -- Community as Policy and Practice -- Community Action -- Community Development -- Community Partnerships -- Community Regeneration -- Community Youth Work -- Leisure and its Communities -- Political Community -- Social Capital.
Access Access restricted to authorized users and institutions.
Summary This book defines the current identity of community studies, provides a critical but reliable introduction to its key concepts, and is an engaging guide to the key social research methods used by community researchers and practitioners.
System Details Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Note Description based on title page of print version.
Subject Community organization.
Community development.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Credo Reference (Firm), distributor.
Other Form: Print version: 1412928435 9781412928434 (DLC) 2009922162 viii, 220 pages
ISBN 9781412928441 (pbk.)
1412928443 (pbk.)
9781412928434 (hbk.)
1412928435 (hbk.)
9781784021429 (electronic version)

 
    
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