Community Organizing in a Diverse Society

Community Organizing in a Diverse Society
Author: Felix G. Rivera
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Total Pages: 306
Release: 1992
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

The Council for Social Work Education (CSWE) new Curriculum Policy Standards are thoroughly discussed and incorporated in this new edition of this well-known book. Written from a community organizing and social change perspective, each chapter focuses on a specific community (e.g. Chicanos, Philipino-Americans, Southeast Asians). The chapter authors have followed a common format in applying relevant theories and methods of practice for community organizing to their specific communities, including coverage of child welfare, the Welfare Reform Act, AIDS, and other topics. Also, this new edition includes a discussion of the moral and ethical dilemmas inherent in organizing with communities of color. Social workers. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Community Organizing in a Diverse Society

Community Organizing in a Diverse Society
Author: Felix G. Rivera
Publisher:
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1995
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

This is a collection of discussions of the social, political, economic and cultural problems currently facing the major communities of colour in the USA. Each chapter focuses on a specific community, and the chapter authors are members of the communities about which they write.

God and Community Organizing

God and Community Organizing
Author: Lewis B Smedes Professor of Christian Ethics Hak Joon Lee
Publisher:
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2020-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781481313155

The ever-evolving climate, technological advances, neoliberal capitalism, and globalization and its effects have transformed the very fabric of global society. In the wake of these phenomena is a globally experienced fragmentation caused by moral assumptions about social institutions as well as increasing disenchantment with democracy and social arrangements as they currently exist. Recently, a surprisingly large number of Christian congregations have been attracted to the twentieth-century concept of community organizing. This phenomenon is a result of the inherent passion for justice in covenantal organizing that underlies Jewish and Christian faith. Not only is covenant instrumental in the formation of God's people as a community, the concept has also played an important role in the rise of modern Western ideas of democracy, constitutionalism, and human rights. God and Community Organizing: A Covenantal Approach brings Saul Alinsky's community organizing into conversation with biblical and theological models of covenant. Hak Joon Lee argues that covenant reflects the life of the triune God who eternally organizes Godself as the Father, Son, and Spirit. At the heart of the biblical institutions of the Mosaic Covenant and the New Covenant of Jesus is the attempt to structure a wholesome, close-knit community of love, justice, and power. Lee incorporates four examples of covenantal organizing in different historical and social contexts: Exodus, Jesus, Puritans, and Martin Luther King Jr. Critically engaging with Saul Alinsky's method, Lee seeks to highlight how the two streams of thought--covenantal organizing and Alinsky's community organizing--can complement each other to develop a more vigorous and effective method of faith-based community organizing. From his study Lee explores the political and moral implications in light of the current struggle against the neoliberal corporate oligarchy. By demonstrating how covenantal organizing presents a more coherent and plausible social philosophy, an effective method in organizing a globalizing society is offered as an alternative to liberal democracy, postmodernism, identity politics, and communitarianism.

The Handbook of Community Practice

The Handbook of Community Practice
Author: Marie Weil
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 968
Release: 2013
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1412987857

Encompassing community development, organizing, planning, & social change, as well as globalisation, this book is grounded in participatory & empowerment practice. The 36 chapters assess practice, theory & research methods.

Rules for Radicals

Rules for Radicals
Author: Saul Alinsky
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2010-06-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0307756890

“This country's leading hell-raiser" (The Nation) shares his impassioned counsel to young radicals on how to effect constructive social change and know “the difference between being a realistic radical and being a rhetorical one.” First published in 1971 and written in the midst of radical political developments whose direction Alinsky was one of the first to question, this volume exhibits his style at its best. Like Thomas Paine before him, Alinsky was able to combine, both in his person and his writing, the intensity of political engagement with an absolute insistence on rational political discourse and adherence to the American democratic tradition.

Collective Action for Social Change

Collective Action for Social Change
Author: A. Schutz
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 492
Release: 2011-04-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0230118534

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.

Community Organizing

Community Organizing
Author: Ross J. Gittell
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1998-06-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780803957923

Providing new insight into an important community development challenge, this text looks at how to stimulate the formation of community-based organizations and effective citizen action in neighbourhoods.

A Theology of Community Organizing

A Theology of Community Organizing
Author: Chris Shannahan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2013-11-12
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1134737475

The rising importance of community organizing in the US and more recently in Britain has coincided with the developing significance of social movements and identity politics, debates about citizenship, social capital, civil society, and religion in the public sphere. At a time when participation in formal political process and membership of faith groups have both declined dramatically, community organizing has provided a new opportunity for small community groups, marginalized urban communities, and people of faith to engage in effective political action through the developments of inter-faith and cross-cultural coalitions of groups. In spite of its renewed popularity, little critical attention has been paid to community organizing. This book places community organizing within debates about the role of religion in the public sphere and the rise of public theology in recent years. The book explores the history, methodology, and achievements of community organizing, engaging in a series of conversations with key community organizers in the US and Britain. This volume breaks new ground by beginning to articulate a cross-cultural and inter-faith ‘Theology for Community Organizing’ that arises from fresh readings of Liberation Theology.

Organizing for Community Controlled Development

Organizing for Community Controlled Development
Author: Patricia W. Murphy
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2003-01-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0761904158

Combines solid research, observation, and practical experience that speak forcefully to the need for both local place-based development and greater citizen involvement.

Progressive Community Organizing

Progressive Community Organizing
Author: Loretta Pyles
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2013-07-24
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1136271503

The second edition of Progressive Community Organizing offers a concise intellectual history of community organizing and social movements while also providing practical tools geared toward practitioner skill building. Drawing from social-constructionist, feminist and critical traditions, Progressive Community Organizing affirms the practice of issue framing and offers two innovative frameworks that will change the way students of organizing think about their work. Progressive Community Organizing is ideal for both undergraduate and graduate courses focused on community theory and practice, community organizing, community development, and social change and service learning. The second edition presents new case studies, including those of a welfare rights organization and a youth-led LGBTQ organization. There are also new sections on the capabilities approach, queer theory, the Civil Rights movement, and the practices of self-inquiry and non-violent communication. Discussion of global justice has been expanded significantly and includes an account of a transnational action-research project in post-earthquake Haiti. Each chapter contains discussion questions, written and web resources, and a list of key terms; a full, free-access companion website is also available for the book.