Smallville Institutionalizing Community in Twenty-First-Century America

Name: Smallville Institutionalizing Community in Twenty-First-Century America
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ISBN: 9781584657217

ISBN-10: 1584657219

ISBN-13: 9781584657217

Edition: 2008

Authors: Carl Milofsky

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Familiar organizational theories often do not fit comfortably when applied to community-level associations or small, local, nonprofit organizations. In Smallville, Carl Milofsky empirically and theoretically studies the organizational dynamics involved in this common American model. Organizations functioning within a community are usually treated as separate units, but when they all exist in the same place and tend to be made up of the same people who are living out different aspects of their identities in various settings, a new analytical paradigm is required. Milofsky's study culminates in the formulation of an innovative way of understanding this phenomenon--an essential, pioneering…

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List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University Press of New England
Publication date: 11/28/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 312
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

CARL MILOFSKY is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Bucknell University. He is a former editor of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly




Where Nonprofits Come From



The Wild River Institute and Smallville's Social Treasury



Organizational Phoenix: Fighting the Incinerator



The Love Life of an Alternative School



Influx: Institutionalizing a Social Problem



How Doctors Act: The Medical Community as a Network Organization



Cooptation of Activist Movements: The Women's Shelter and the AIDS Organization



Filling a Structural Hole: A Religious Program for Delinquents Helps the Schools and the Courts



The Episcopal Diocese as a Mediating Structure



Transorganizations: New Organizational Perspectives for Understanding Community-Level Nonprofits


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