Community Intervention : Clinical Sociology Perspectives / Jan Marie Fritz, Jacques Rhéaume, editors.
Fritz, Jan M., 1941- editor.; Rhéaume, Jacques, editor.
2014
HN49.C6 C6525 2014eb
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Title Community Intervention : Clinical Sociology Perspectives / Jan Marie Fritz, Jacques Rhéaume, editors.
ISBN 9781493909988 (electronic book)
1493909983 (electronic book)
9781493909971
1493909975
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0998-8
Published New York : Springer, [2014]
Copyright ©2014.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xviii, 246 pages) : illustrations, color maps.
Item Number 10.1007/978-1-4939-0998-8 doi
Call Number HN49.C6 C6525 2014eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 307.1/4
Summary Community Intervention: Clinical Sociology Perspectives showcases important efforts to improve the quality of life in communities around the world. The book, a project of the clinical sociology division of the International Sociological Association, describes the interdisciplinary field of clinical sociology in relation to community improvement. The first part of the book covers important concepts and tools for community intervention and identifies a variety of approaches to community research with an emphasis on research that centrally involves community members. The chapters in the second part of the volume focus on projects in a broad range of countries, covering topics such as involving residents in urban renewal projects, developing healthy communities, encouraging socioeconomic development, improving the life of immigrants, helping communities deal with climate change, establishing human rights cities, encouraging empowerment and creating an inclusive community. A unique feature of the book is the inclusion of profiles about some of the outstanding work in community intervention over the last 100 years. These profiles are of Nobel Peace Prize winner Jane Addams; community activist Saul Alinsky; human rights and environmental activist Wangari Maathai; and participatory action research pioneer Orlando Fals Borda. Written by scholar-practitioners as well as analysts, the book provides essential commentary regarding community intervention efforts.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Added Author Fritz, Jan M., 1941- editor.
Rhéaume, Jacques, editor.
Series Clinical sociology, 1566-7847
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Foreword / by Katia Araujo, Huairou Commission
1. Introduction to the Volume / Jan Marie Fritz and Jacques Rhéaume
Part I. The Basics of Community Practice
2. Essentials of Community Intervention / Jan Marie Fritz
3. Research for the Community / Jacques Rhéaume
4. The Researcher's Mark: What Researchers Bring to Communities, and What May or May Not be Left Behind When Their Work is Done / Jenifer Cartland and Holly S. Ruch-Ross.

Part II. Selected Applications
5. Community Development and Empowerment: A Clinical Sociology Perspective / Jacques Rhéaume
6. The Healthy Cities/Communities Movement: The Global Diffusion of Local Initiatives / Harry Perlstadt
7. Cultural Encounters: A Research-Intervention Approach for Working with Immigrants in the Community / Catherine Montgomery, Spyridoula Xenocostas and Vania Jimenez
8. Coeducation in the Popular/Neighbourhood Districts of Marseille / Pierre Roche
9. Economic Interventions in Communities: The Québec Case / Jean-Marc Fontan and Lucie Dumais
10. Climate Change Adaptation in Metro Manila: Community Risk Assessment and Power in Community Interventions / Emma Porio
11. Human Rights Cities: The Transformation of Communities, or Simply Treading Water? / Judith Blau
12. Involving Residents in the Design of Urban Renewal Projects Based upon a Generative Analysis of Social Processes / Michel Bonetti and Jean-Didier Laforgue
13. Riding Off into the Sunset? Establishing an Inclusive Post-Apartheid South African Community / Tina Uys.

Appendices
Appendix 1. Clinical Sociology: Basic Readings and Websites
Appendix 2. Wangari Maathai and the Green Belt Movement / by Elena Bass
Appendix 3. Saul Alinsky and Community Organizing / by John Yung
Appendix 4. Orlando Fals-Borda and Participatory Action Research / by Jeff Kelley
Appendix 5. Jane Addams and Hull-House / by Jan Marie Fritz.

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