Communities For Social Change

Author : Annette Coburn,Sinéad Gormally
Publisher : Counterpoints
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Community development
ISBN : 1433129760

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Communities for Social Change by Annette Coburn,Sinéad Gormally Pdf

Communities for Social Change: Practicing Equality and Social Justice in Youth and Community Work examines core ideas of social justice and equality that underpin community and youth work. It informs understanding of a range of community concepts and practices that are used to identify practical skills and characteristics that can help to promote equality by challenging injustice. Working with people in different types of community can bring the kind of social change that makes a real and lasting difference. Although justice is a contested notion, Annette Coburn and Sinéad Gormally assert that it is closely interlinked with human rights and equality. A critical examination of contemporary literature draws on educational, sociological, and psychological perspectives, to set community practices within a context for learning that is conversational, critical and informal. Social justice is about identifying and seeking to address structural disadvantage, discrimination, and inequality. The authors assert that by refocusing on process, participation, and collective rights, it is possible to create and sustain social justice. Transformative research paradigms help to produce findings that inspire and underpin political social action, and an analysis of practice-based examples supports the promotion of increased critical consciousness. This makes Communities for Social Change a must-read for anyone studying or teaching community youth work or who is working in communities or with individuals who experience oppression or inequality. If you are committed to teaching and learning about theory and practice that promotes social change for equality and social justice, you will not be disappointed!

Author : Dave Beck,Rod Purcell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781315528595

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Community Development for Social Change by Dave Beck,Rod Purcell Pdf

Community Development for Social Change provides a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of community development and associated activities, discusses best practice from global experience and links that to the UK context. The book integrates the realities of practice to key underpinning theories, human rights, values and a commitment to promoting social justice. A range of practice models are described and analysed, including UK models, popular education and community organising, as well as a range of practice issues that need to be understood by community development workers. For example, strategies to promote individual and community empowerment, challenging discrimination, building and sustaining groups, and critical reflection on practice. Finally, a range of case studies from the UK and overseas illustrates good practice in diverse contexts. These case studies are analysed with reference to the values of community development, the promotion of social justice and the underpinning theories. It is an essential text for those on community development courses as well as for a range of workers, including local government, national and local voluntary agencies, and community-based organisations.

Author : Casey Burkholder,Funké Aladejebi,Joshua Schwab-Cartas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-31
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000568523

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Facilitating Community Research for Social Change by Casey Burkholder,Funké Aladejebi,Joshua Schwab-Cartas Pdf

Facilitating Community Research for Social Change asks: what does ethical research facilitation look like in projects that seek to move toward social change? How can scholars weave political and social justice through multiple levels of the research process? This edited collection presents chapters that investigate research facilitation in ways that specifically attempt to disrupt and challenge anti-Indigenous and anti-Black racism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, patriarchy, and sexism to work toward social change. It also explores what it means to develop facilitation practices across multiple contexts and research settings, including specific facilitation methods considered by researchers working with visual and community-based methods with Black, Indigenous, and racialized communities. The complexities of how scholars negotiate decisions within their research with people and communities have an effect not only on how researchers construct their participants and communities, but also on the overall purpose of projects, the ways their projects are shared and disseminated, and what is learned in the doing of facilitation. This book will be of great interest to both emerging and established researchers working within the social sciences. It specifically attends to diverse fields within the social sciences that include health, media studies, environmental studies, social work, sociology, education, participatory visual research methodologies, as well as the evolving field of digital humanities.

Author : Dario Spini,Guy Elcheroth,Dinka Corkalo Biruski
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781461474913

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War, Community, and Social Change by Dario Spini,Guy Elcheroth,Dinka Corkalo Biruski Pdf

Collective experiences in the former Yugoslavia documents and analyses how social representations and practices are shaped by collective violence in a context of ethnic discourse. What are the effects of violence and what are the effects of collectively experienced victimisation on societal norms, attitudes and collective beliefs? This volume stresses that mass violence has a de- and re-structuring role for manifold psychosocial processes. A combined psychosocial approach draws attention to how most people in the former Yugoslavia had to endure and cope with war and dramatic societal changes and how they resisted and overcame ethnic rivalry, violence and segregation. It is a departure from the mindset that depict most people in the former Yugoslavia as either blind followers of ethnic war entrepreneurs or as intrinsically motivated for violence by deep-rooted intra-ethnic loyalties and inter-ethnic animosities.

Author : A. Schutz,M. Sandy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230118539

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Collective Action for Social Change by A. Schutz,M. Sandy Pdf

Community organizers build solidarity and collective power in fractured communities. They help ordinary people turn their private pain into public action, releasing hidden capacities for leadership and strategy. In Collective Action for Social Change , Aaron Schutz and Marie G. Sandy draw on their extensive experience participating in community organizing activities and teaching courses on the subject to empower novices to think like an organizers.

Author : Eric Shragge
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442606296

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Activism and Social Change by Eric Shragge Pdf

Drawing on over thirty years of experience in community development practice, Eric Shragge offers a unique historical perspective on activism, linking various forms of local organizing to the broader goal of fundamental social change. This new edition places contemporary community organizing in a post-9/11 context and includes a discussion of national and international organizing efforts—in the Middle East, in the Occupy movement, in European resistance to austerity measures, and in recent student protests in Quebec. A new chapter-length case study covering Shragge's long-term involvement with the Immigrant Workers Centre in Montreal offers one of the few English-language discussions of community organizing in Quebec. Activism and Social Change is an excellent core or supplementary text in courses on social movements, community organizing, or community development.

Author : David Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015037488379

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First Person Plural by David Smith Pdf

David Smith has been at the centre of the movement for social change for 50 years. His long-standing work with countless communities has counteracted the competition, manipulation, misinformation, and the exploitation of enthusiasm that lie behind the "facade" of democratic procedures. In First Person Plural, he outlines his practical guide to popular democratic education. Here is essential reading for practitioners, policy makers, and activists working for social change in the fields of adult and popular education, community development, rural and urban planning, social services, health care, the environment, women's issues, international development, and peace.

Author : Gordon, Steven
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-24
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781522524960

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Online Communities as Agents of Change and Social Movements by Gordon, Steven Pdf

The growing presence of social media and computer use has caused significant changes to community engagement. With the ubiquity of these technologies, there is increasing engagement in social and political policies and changes. Online Communities as Agents of Change and Social Movements is a pivotal reference source for the latest research on relevant theoretical and practical frameworks regarding online communities and social media as agents of social and political change. Featuring extensive coverage on relevant areas such as computer use, online engagement, and collective action, this publication is an ideal resource for researchers, academics, practitioners, and students in the fields of social psychology, social network analysis, media studies, information systems, and political science.

Author : Allen M. Omoto
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135628833

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Processes of Community Change and Social Action by Allen M. Omoto Pdf

This volume will focus on psychological and sociological processes that contribute to community involvement. Researchers and students from social, community, political, and organizational psychology; political science; sociology; anthropology; communicat

Author : Cynthia Rayner,François Bonnici
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Social change
ISBN : 9780198857457

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The Systems Work of Social Change by Cynthia Rayner,François Bonnici Pdf

The issues of poverty, inequality, racial injustice, and climate change have never been more pressing or paralyzing. Current approaches to social change, which rely on linear thinking and traditional power dynamics to 'solve' social problems, are not helping. In fact, they may only beentrenching the status quo.Systemic social challenges produce bewildering results when we try to solve them due to their complexity, scale, and depth. While strategies to tackle complexity and scale have received significant attention and investment, challenges that arise from deeply-held beliefs, values, and assumptions thatno longer serve us well have been largely overlooked. This book draws on stories of committed social changemakers to uncover a set of principles and practices for social change that dramatically depart from the industrial approach. Rather than delivering solutions or being lured by grander visionsof 'systems change', these principles and practices focus on the process of change itself. Simple yet profound, these stories distil a timely set of lessons for leaders, scholars, and policymakers on how connection, context, and power sit at the heart of the change process, ensuring broader agencyfor people and communities while building social systems that are responsive in a rapidly-changing world.

Author : Eric Shragge,Michael Toye
Publisher : Sydney, N.S. : Cape Breton University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : IND:30000109152185

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Community Economic Development by Eric Shragge,Michael Toye Pdf

Communities have long been ahead of governments in responding to changes in the economy, forging ahead with innovative grassroots projects that now make up a substantial portion of economic development initiatives. Having made major gains in practice and having built local capacities through innovation, Community Economic Development now stands at a crossroads. In Building for Social Change, Eric Shragge, Michael Toye and colleagues from across the country offer a timely critical examination of CED practices and debates. This book is designed for CED practitioners, for others working in community-based organizations and those being trained. There are a growing number of post-secondary programs in English Canada that educate students in CED and related fields such as regional development, yet there are not many publications that provide analytical perspectives and debate. The goal of this book is to describe and analyze CED practice, primarily in Canada, through a wide range of subjects--the evolution of its definitions, economic dimensions and the key elements that form its context. Building for Social Change situates CED in wide political, economic and social contexts: rich examples of the scope and practices, and some of the limits--in Aboriginal communities, as a tool to support women, psychiatric survivor enterprises, housing and worker ownerships--are explored to help spur further critical discussion and debate.

Author : Thomas Bender
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0801829240

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Community and Social Change in America by Thomas Bender Pdf

Did urbanization kill communities in the 19th century, or even earlier? Many historians proclaim that it did, but author Bender says otherwise. Here he argues that community survived the trials of industrialization and urbanization and remains a fundamental element of American society.

Author : Thomas Bender
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Communities
ISBN : LCCN:82047981

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Community and Social Change in America by Thomas Bender Pdf

Author : Majid Al-haj
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000311686

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Social Change And Family Processes by Majid Al-haj Pdf

In this book, Majid Al-Haj analyzes the structure of family kinship groups, the role of women, and fertility among several Arab subcommunities in Israel. He combines historical materials, anthropological evidence, and several major surveys in tracing family and demographic patterns in a developing Arab community. This study is the first to compare Moslems, Christians, and Druze over time in the same community and to integrate issues of modernization and population for minorities. Particular attention is given to the analysis of "internal refugees" among Moslems, the separation of structural from cultural determinants of family patterns, and the distinction between behavior and norms associated with family lifestyles. This volume represents a fascinating case study of an Arab town in the transition to modernity under the conditions of changing layers of minority status in Israeli society. Moreover, the author addresses broader issues of modernization and demographic change characterizing the Middle East and other developing areas of the world where minority ethnic conflict and population processes are intertwined.

Author : Herbert J. Rubin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351348478

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Advocacy for Social Change by Herbert J. Rubin Pdf

This book portrays how small, geographically dispersed, and progressive social change and social service organizations working within a coalition can influence national-level social policies. Based on extensive empirical research on two national organizations and their local affiliates, one focusing on affordable housing and the other working to protect lower-income communities, this book shows the ways in which professionally staffed organizations that coordinate coalitions come about, and describes their work to mobilize coalition members to lobby and advocate, providing information, analysis and instruction to facilitate such action and, in so doing, becoming the public voice for the social change efforts of coalitions. Advocacy for Social Change details the characteristics of these organizations that the author has labeled as focal catalytic coalition organizations and then provides numerous examples of campaigns led by them on affordable housing and economic justice; campaigns that illustrate tactics that other social change organizations can emulate. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology with interests in social problems, social action, political sociology, urban studies, community development and organizing while extending the literature on interest group lobbying.