SAGE Key Concepts series: Key Concepts in Community Studies
SAGE Key Concepts series: Key Concepts in Community Studies
Editor/Author
Blackshaw, Tony
Publication Year: 2009
Publisher: Sage UK
Price: Core Collection Only

ISBN: 978-1-4129-2843-4
Category: Social Sciences
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
This 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.
This book is found in the following Credo Collections:
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction and User Guide
- 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
- The Symbolic Construction of Community
- Community as Ideology
- Communitarianism
- Imaginary Communities
- Nostalgia
- The 'Dark Side' of Community
- Community as Policy and Practice
- Community Action
- Community Development
- Community Partnerships
- Community Regeneration
- Community Youth Work
- Leisure and its Communities
- Political Community
- Social Capital