Community Organizing and Development

Rubin, Herbert; Rubin, Irene

ISBN 10: 0205408133 / ISBN 13: 9780205408139

Verlag: Pearson / Allyn and Bacon, 2007

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Textbook, May Have Highlights, Notes and/or Underlining, BOOK ONLY-NO ACCESS CODE, NO CD, Ships with Tracking. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers SKU0062464

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Community Organizing and Development

Verlag: Pearson / Allyn and Bacon

Erscheinungsdatum: 2007

Einband: Paperback

Zustand: Good

Auflage: 4th.

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Inhaltsangabe:

This revised edition of a well-known and widely used text in community organizing and development fully examines the broad and changing political and social settings that influence actions; while portraying the infra-structure of social change -- the knowledge, personnel, and organizations -- that enable such work to be successfully accomplished. The text brings together the practicalities of organizing and development -- fund raising, working out news releases, running an organization, orchestrating political actions, academic knowledge -- and explains why various approaches work; as well as the values and ideologies that guide what is to be done. It provides the foundations of organizing and development work and then describes how activists -- through following either a social confrontation model or an economic and social production approach -- can respond to economic and social problems.

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Community Organizing and Development

Fourth Edition

Herbert J. Rubin, Northern Illinois University  •  Irene S. Rubin, Northern Illinois University

 

Overview

This totally revised edition of Community Organizing and Development more fully examines the broad and ever-changing political and social settings that influence collective actions.  In doing so, it describes the infra-structure of social change -- the knowledge, personnel, and organizations -- that enable change to be successfully accomplished.  

 

New to this edition:

• Chapters have been fully updated and grouped into effective teaching units.
• A more fully developed progressive organizing model is added that explicitly links values to social actions to provide an integrative theme for the text.
• More  discussion of the importance of the Web–as an aid for organizing political and confrontational actions, as well guidance in economic and social development projects.
• Increased coverage of the practical details of organizing and development -- fund raising, publicity, running an organization, and orchestrating political actions.  

• Two new overview chapters, with Chapter 2 presenting descriptive narratives of successful organizing and development work and Chapter 3 examining contrasting models of organizing. 
• Expanded coverage of the importance of values and ideology, both for motivating organizing work as well as for understanding the actions of the opposition.
• Numerous examples that show students a wide range of possible careers in social change work.