The Quest for Community

The Quest for Community
Author: Robert Nisbet
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2023-03-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1684516366

One of the leading thinkers to emerge in the postwar conservative intellectual revival was the sociologist Robert Nisbet. His book The Quest for Community, published in 1953, stands as one of the most persuasive accounts of the dilemmas confronting modern society. Nearly a half century before Robert Putnam documented the atomization of society in Bowling Alone, Nisbet argued that the rise of the powerful modern state had eroded the sources of community—the family, the neighborhood, the church, the guild. Alienation and loneliness inevitably resulted. But as the traditional ties that bind fell away, the human impulse toward community led people to turn even more to the government itself, allowing statism—even totalitarianism—to flourish. This edition of Nisbet’s magnum opus features a brilliant introduction by New York Times columnist Ross Douthat and three critical essays. Published at a time when our communal life has only grown weaker and when many Americans display cultish enthusiasm for a charismatic president, this new edition of The Quest for Community shows that Nisbet’s insights are as relevant today as ever.

Your Quest for Home

Your Quest for Home
Author: Cheri G Britton M Ed
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-01-31
Genre: Housing, Cooperative
ISBN: 9781494935566

A workbook that takes the reader through various exercises of self-discovery to determine what kind of community living arrangement would best suit his or her needs.

The Healing Power of Community

The Healing Power of Community
Author: Lusijah Marx
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2024-07-04
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1040051073

The Healing Power of Community offers a diverse cross section of interdisciplinary and depth-psychological perspectives in support of using mutual aid approaches in all levels of group and community practice as a remedy for individualism and social and political divisions, centering social justice. Written by three distinct voices who collaborated at the height of the AIDS crisis, the book begins with an autoethnographic study of Project Quest, an HIV/AIDS clinic established in 1989, before looking at how the lessons learnt from this clinic can be applied to our current global mental health climate. Filled with clinical and theoretical applications, chapters include content on what mutual aid communities are, rethinking professionalism and boundaries in a crisis, healing collective trauma, group psychotherapy, psychodrama, depth psychology, and how mental health professionals can support radical change of key structures in nonprofit clinics, public administration, private practice, and research. Arguing for their approach of radicalizing mental health and community-based practice today, the book examines how this can be achieved by moving beyond individual-level approaches, creating new frameworks to meet the mental health needs of our era in creative ways. This book is designed to engage clinical social workers and mental health care clinicians working in community-based mental health, as well as those involved in community psychology, collective trauma and grief, HIV/AIDS advocacy, policy making, and political advocacy.

The Black Community’s Quest for Equality

The Black Community’s Quest for Equality
Author: Dr. Sandra Jenise Dailey
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2021-04-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1649570600

The Black Community’s Quest for Equality: Resolving Poverty in the Black Community By: Dr. Sandra Jenise Dailey Readers who want to provoke others to positive change will find inspiration in The Black Community’s Quest for Equality: “Resolving Poverty in the Black Community.” Throughout are personal examples of the author’s story of self-empowerment, growing up in the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s in an improvised environment, overcoming rape and giving birth at the tender age of fourteen. This book will motivate, inform, and educate those of all ages, races, cultures, and ethnicities and open the eyes of those who are unfamiliar with the Black quest for equality.

Encyclopedia of Community

Encyclopedia of Community
Author: DAVID LEVINSON
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 2045
Release: 2003-06-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0761925988

The Encyclopedia of Community is a major four volume reference work that seeks to define one of the most widely researched topics in the behavioural and social sciences. Community itself is a concept, an experience, and a central part of being human. This pioneering major reference work seeks to provide the necessary definitions of community far beyond the traditional views.

Community and Conflict

Community and Conflict
Author: D. Edyvane
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2007-04-25
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0230286836

Rather than undermining it, this book argues that moral conflict is necessary for a liberal political community. It develops a new philosophical basis for political association based on an innovative account of the way journey narratives in literature shed light on the possibilities for solidarity in modern democratic societies.

Communities

Communities
Author: Dennis E. Poplin
Publisher: New York : Macmillan
Total Pages: 362
Release: 1979
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

Who Cares?

Who Cares?
Author: David B Schwartz
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2019-05-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0429971621

A wonderfully engaging and accessible book, Who Cares? emphasizes finding humane responses to developmentally and physically disabled individuals that are community driven rather than solely reliant on problem-solution oriented social service organizations. David Schwartz examines the roles of both informal communities and sectarian communities for

Community Library Programs That Work

Community Library Programs That Work
Author: Beth Christina Maddigan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2013-11-20
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1610692640

A collection of versatile best practices for promoting literacy development by utilizing local community connections in school and public libraries. Modern libraries are recreating themselves as idea centers for today's Internet-savvy, digitally driven clientele. This book provides a fresh approach to learning as well as guidelines for creating dynamic and relevant library programs for children, teens, and families. Organized thematically, each chapter includes relevant topical research and three to eight community-focused approaches. Programs range from small, single-library initiatives in rural communities to multi-site, cross-border initiatives. This essential reference includes collaborative and locally inspired programs, many of which can be scaled to the budget of any library, school, or community organization.