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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.
Although the way associations and the organization of local
social life are intertwined is one of the oldest approaches to
community study, the way citizens and residents come together
informally to act and solve problems has rarely been a primary
focus. Associations are central to important and developing areas
of social theory and social action. This handbook takes voluntary
associations as the starting point for making sense of communities.
It offers a new perspective on voluntary organizations and gives an
integrated, yet diverse, theoretical understanding of this
important aspect of community life.
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.
Although the way associations and the organization of local social
life are intertwined is one of the oldest approaches to community
study, the way citizens and residents come together informally to
act and solve problems has rarely been a primary focus.
Associations are central to important and developing areas of
social theory and social action. This handbook takes voluntary
associations as the starting point for making sense of communities.
It offers a new perspective on voluntary organizations and gives an
integrated, yet diverse, theoretical understanding of this
important aspect of community life.
Local nonprofit organizations are often small, loosely structured,
and democratically governed, and therefore do not fit conveniently
into traditional theories of organizational behavior that are
rooted in administrative science and bureaucratic structure.
Treating community organizations as parts of larger
systems--organizational fields or ecologies and communities--this
collection of papers presents various perspectives on local
nonprofit organizations from the standpoint of organizational
theory. The essays draw on an array of methods and theoretical
approaches taken from population ecology theories of organizations,
laying the foundation for the structural analysis of community
organizations.
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