Edition |
[Enhanced Credo edition]. |
Description |
1 online resource (39 entries) ; digital files. |
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text rdacontent |
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electronic isbdmedia |
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online resource rdacarrier |
Series |
Sage key concepts |
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SAGE key concepts.
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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.
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Community development.
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Credo Reference (Firm), distributor.
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Other Form: |
Print version: 1412928435 9781412928434 (DLC) 2009922162 viii, 220 pages |
ISBN |
9781412928441 (pbk.) |
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1412928443 (pbk.) |
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9781412928434 (hbk.) |
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1412928435 (hbk.) |
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9781784021429 (electronic version) |
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