| Edition |
Fourth edition. |
| Description |
ix, 552 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Models of community organization and macro practice perspectives : their mixing and phasing / Jack Rothman with John E. Tropman -- 2. A history of community organizing since the Civil War with special reference to oppressed communities / Charles D. Garvin and Fred M. Cox -- pt. 1. Common elements of practice -- Introduction / John E. Tropman -- 3. Need identification and program planning in the community context / Larry M. Siegel, C. Clifford Attkisson and Linda G. Carson -- 4. The knowledge base of planned change in organizations and communities / Joseph Katan and Shimon E. Spiro -- 5. How to be an advocate in bad times / Nancy Amidei -- 6. Working with task groups : the middle phase / Ronald W. Toseland and Robert F. Rivas -- 7. Interpersonal transactions in community practice / Herbert Bisno -- 8. Community problem solving : a guide to practice with comments / Fred M. Cox -- 9. Program evaluation and administrative control / Steven Maynard-Moody -- pt. 2. Arenas -- Introduction / Fred M. Cox -- 10. Society : American values as a context for community organization and macro practice / part I, John E. Tropman ; part II, Fred M. Cox -- 11. Communities : alternative conceptions of community : implications for community organization practice / Fred M. Cox -- 12. Organizations : organizations as polities : an analysis of community organization agencies / Mayer N. Zald -- Pt. 3. Strategies -- Introduction / John E. Tropman and John L. Erlich -- 13. Social planning, social policy and political change / Eugen Pusic -- 14. Theories of choice and making decisions / James G. March -- 15. Homelessness as a public concern : how to develop a community approach to solving the problem / Milan J. Dluhy -- 16. Social planners and social planning in the U.S. / Armand Lauffer -- 17. Political strategy for social planning / Barry Checkoway -- 18. Citizen input and professional responsibility / Carl V. Patton -- 19. Community development : potentials and limitations / S. K. Khinduka -- 20. Needs assessment and community development : an ideological perspective / Sylvia Marti-Costa and Irma Serrano-Garcia -- 21. Community involvement in desegregation : the Milwaukee experience / Ian Harris -- 22. Community organizing in historical perspective : a typology / Robert Fisher -- 23. Can't ya hear me knocking? An organizing model / Lee Staples -- 24. The tactics of organization building / Warren Haggstrom -- 25. Organization theory for social administration / Burton Gummer -- Program development / Yeheskel Hasenfeld -- 27. The circuit riding administrator : a network based, macro generalist approach to capacity building in small communities / Lynn Clemmons Morris. |
| Note |
Includes indexes. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 523-533. |
| Subject |
Community organization.
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Organizations.
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Social Change.
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Social Planning.
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| Added Author |
Cox, Fred M.
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| ISBN |
0875813216 paperback |
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