Practicing Sociology in the Community

Practicing Sociology in the Community
Author: Phyllis Ann Langton
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2005
Genre: Psychology
ISBN:

To be used as a supplemental text for introductory courses in sociology and/or social problems or as support text for students enrolled in a community-based or internship program. Designed to help inform and guide students who are engaged in community based learning programs, this supplemental text strives to teach students how to effectively and compassionately practice sociology in the community. Organized to facilitate students' abilities to connect classroom learning with fieldwork in the community, this guide prompts students to reflect upon their community experiences and discover what those experiences signify to them personally and to the development of sociological knowledge.

The Sociology of Community Connections

The Sociology of Community Connections
Author: John G. Bruhn
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2005-09-08
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780306486166

This book discusses the rationale for community, the varieties of communities, the effect of social change on communities and many other factors, tying the concept to the various levels of human interaction, from the global to the individual.

Introduction to Community Development

Introduction to Community Development
Author: Jerry W. Robinson
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2011
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1412974623

Introduction to Community Development provides students of community and economic development with a theoretical and practical introduction to the field of community development. Bringing together leading scholars in the field of community development, the book follows the curriculum needs in offering a progression from theory to practice, beginning with a theoretical overview, an historical overview, and the various approaches to community development.

Social Work in the Community

Social Work in the Community
Author: Teater, Barbra
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2012-05-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1447308816

Social work in the community offers practice guidance to students, practice assessors and practitioners within a political, theoretical, methodological and ethical framework. The book is written from an experiential learning perspective, encouraging the reader not only to understand the ideas and methods but to test them out in their own practice, which additionally provides an element of problem-based learning. The book is written within the framework of the practice curriculum for the social work degree, including the National Occupational Standards and an extended statement of values for practice. This will enable students to use the book to make sense of their practice in relation to the knowledge, skills and values of social work practice in its community context.

Public Sociology As Educational Practice

Public Sociology As Educational Practice
Author: Eurig Scandrett
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2022-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 152920142X

Leading academics reflect on concepts and aspects of public sociology education in this perceptive collection of case studies, linked by critical dialogue between contributors. They consider publics, practices and special knowledges in the field, and go beyond academia’s boundaries to explore the purposes and targets of sociological knowledge.

Theory, Practice, and Community Development

Theory, Practice, and Community Development
Author: Mark Brennan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2013-06-19
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1135038902

For many scholars, the study of community and community development is at a crossroads. Previously dynamic theories appear not to have kept pace with the major social changes of our day. Given our constantly shifting social reality we need new ideas and research that pushes the boundaries of our extant community theories. Theory, Practice, and Community Development stretches the traditional boundaries and applications of well-established community development theory, and establishes new theoretical approaches rooted in new disciplines and new perspectives on community development. Expanded from a special issue of the journal Community Development, Theory, Practice, and Community Development collects previously published and widely cited essays, as well as new theoretical and empirical research in community development. Compiled by the editors of Community Development, the essays feature topics as varied as placemaking, democratic theory and rural organizing. Theory, Practice, and Community Development is vital for scholars and practitioners coming to grips with the rapidly changing definition of community.

Community as Urban Practice

Community as Urban Practice
Author: Talja Blokland
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 157
Release: 2017-05-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1509504850

Community is a central idea in urban studies but remains conceptually vague and empirically difficult to work with. Building on existing theories of community, Talja Blokland offers an important contribution to defining and understanding this key theme. Blokland argues that there has been too much focus on community as a stable construct, formed by durable relationships with kin, friends, social groups or neighbours. She draws attention to the non-durable, fluid encounters that constitute community, theorizing communities as shared urban practices in a globalizing world. The book proposes two core ways of thinking about community: the dimension of familiarity, defined by our ability to construct identities, and the dimension of access, defined by our freedom to enter and leave urban spaces. These dimensions form various urban configurations which enable us to experience and practise community in diverse ways. As this book maintains, community is after all an urban practice, not a fixed state of affairs.

Sociology and Social Work

Sociology and Social Work
Author: Jo Cunningham
Publisher: Learning Matters
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2014-03-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 147390725X

Sociological perspectives and their application to social work are an inherent part of the QAA benchmark statements in the social work degree. In addition, graduates must understand how sociological perspectives can be used to dissect societal and structural influences on human behaviour at individual, group and community levels. This fully-revised second edition includes a new chapter on social class and welfare and is mapped to the new Professional Capabilities Framework for Social Work.