The Sociology of Community Connections
The Sociology of Community Connections

Author: John G. Bruhn

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2011-07-18

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 9400716338

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Many of our current social problems have been attributed to the breakdown or loss of community as a place and to the fragmentation of connections due to an extreme value of individualism in the Western world, particularly in the United States. Not all scholars and researchers agree that individualism and technology are the primary culprits in the loss of community as it existed in the middle decade of the 20th century. Nonetheless, people exist in groups, and connections are vital to their existence and in the daily performance of activities. The second edition of the Sociology of Community Connections will identify and help students understand community connectedness in the present and future.

Communities and Organizations
Communities and Organizations

Author: Chris Marquis

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2011-11-23

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 1780522843

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Considers how diverse types of communities influence organizations, as well as the associated benefit of developing an accounting for community processes in organizational theory. This title focuses on social proximity and networks that has characterized the work on communities.

Practicing Sociology in the Community
Practicing Sociology in the Community

Author: Phyllis Ann Langton

Publisher: Prentice Hall

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13:

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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.

Sociology and Social Policy
Sociology and Social Policy

Author: Herbert J. Gans

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2017-09-05

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 0231545096

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This collection of recent essays by the influential sociologist Herbert J. Gans brings together the many themes of Gans’s wide-ranging career to make the case for a policy-oriented vision for sociology. Sociology and Social Policy explicates and helps solve social problems by presenting a range of studies on what people, institutions, and social structures do with, for, and against one another. These works from across Gans’s areas of interest—the city, poverty, ethnicity, employment and political economy, and the relationship between race and class—together make a powerful call to action for the field of sociology.

Community and Society
Community and Society

Author: Ferdinand Tonnies

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2002-01-01

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 9780486424972

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One of the first major studies of sociology, this book explores the clash between small-scale neighborhood-based communities and the large-scale competitive market society. It considers all aspects of life — political, economic, legal, family, religion and culture. Discusses construction of "selfhood" and "personhood," and modes of cognition, language, and understanding.

Currents of Thought in African Sociology and the Global Community
Currents of Thought in African Sociology and the Global Community

Author: Joshua Awosan

Publisher: Universal-Publishers

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 1599429993

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Currents of Thought in African Sociology and the Global Community focuses on research findings further enriched in the realm of the emergent, indigenous African sociology within a global context. An authentic guide, it has potential to expose readers to the intricacy of research in its various ramifications. Its uniqueness consists in casting, in an explanatory framework, what each of the subdisciplines of sociology is all about, while simultaneously discussing the theoretical and methodological orientations in which the accompanying research findings are situated. The transition of sociology in Africa, inextricably tied in with global dimension, is its major theme. And discussion questions/exercises and essays at the end of each chapter constitute a stimulating teaching tool. Its theoretical coverage straddles a wide variety of paradigms - from structural-functional theory and conflict theory to symbolic interactionism, ethnomethodology, dramaturgy, exchange theory, etc. The book will be of use in courses in sociology, anthropology, research methods, global human issues, African and African-American studies, Third World societies, and criminal justice. Besides, it constitutes an experiential celebration of deivory-towerism, emphasizing the involvement of the academic citadel with the community.