Key Concepts in Community Studies

Name: Key Concepts in Community Studies
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ISBN: 9781412928441

ISBN-10: 1412928443

ISBN-13: 9781412928441

Edition: 2010

Authors: Tony Blackshaw

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'This book is both insightful and engaging, enriched with diverse and up-to-date readings. Tony Blackshaw lays bare debates surrounding the uses and abuses of key concepts of community studies and breathes new life into community as theory and community studies as method' - Peter Bramham, Reader in Social Science of Sport, Leisure and Physical Education, Leeds Metropolitain UniversityThis book defines the current identity of community studies, provides a critical but reliable introduction to its key concepts and is an engaging guide to the key social research methods used by community researchers and practitioners.Concise but clear, it caters for the needs of those interested in community…

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List price: $33.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Limited
Publication date: 10/29/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 5.81" wide x 8.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English

Tony Blackshaw is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Sport & Leisure at Sheffield Hallam University and author of The SAGE Dictionary of Leisure Studies (SAGE, 2009) and Zygmunt Bauman (Routledge 'Key Sociologists', 2005)



Setting the Record Straight: What is Community? And What Does it Mean Today?


Community as Theory


A Theory of Community


Hermeneutic Communities


Liquid Modern Communities


Postmodern Communities


Community as Method


Action Research


Community Profiling


Community Studies


Ethnography


Social Network Analysis


Community as Place


Cosmopolitanism, Worldliness and the Cultural Intermediaries


Liminality, Communitas and Anti-Structure


Locality, Place and Neighbourhood


Virtual Communities


Community as Identity/Belonging


Community and Identity


Imagined Communities


Neo Tribes see Setting the Record Straight, Leisure and its Communities, Liquid Modern Communities and Liminality, Communitas and Anti-Structure


New Social Movements see Community Action


Personal Communities see Setting the Record Straight, Social Network Analysis and Virtual Communities


The Symbolic Construction of Community


Community as Ideology


Communitarianism


Community Politics see Political Community and Community Action


Imaginary Communities


Nostalgia


The 'Dark Side' of Community


Utopia see Imaginary Communities


Community as Policy and Practice


Community Action


Community Development


Community Partnerships


Community Policy see Political Community


Community Practice see Community Development, Community Youth Work, Leisure and its Communities


Community Regeneration


Community Youth Work


Leisure and its Communities


Political Community


Social Capital