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Community Organizing
Ross J. GittellAvis Vidal
其他書名
Building Social Capital as a Development Strategy
出版SAGE, 1998-06-10
主題Business & Economics / Development / GeneralPolitical Science / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban DevelopmentPolitical Science / Public Policy / Regional PlanningScience / Environmental ScienceSocial Science / Sociology / General
ISBN08039579209780803957923
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ihf-nBr4cMQC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Community Organizing provides new insight into an important national challenge--how to stimulate the formation of genuinely community-based organizations and effective citizen action in neighborhoods that have not spawned these efforts spontaneously. Since Robert Putnam's identification of the role of social capital in regional governance and economic development, there has been a virtual industry of interest and action created around the implications of his findings for the development of low-income communities. Yet, there remains a paucity of detailed empirical effort testing and refining his ideas. This book attempts to fill this gap. Community Organizing distills lessons form a national demonstration program that employed a novel approach to community organizing--consensus organizing. Consensus organizing enhances social capital, both by building stronger internal ties and capacity in low-income communities and by fostering new relations (bridges) among residents of low-income communities and larger metropolitan area support communities. Using evaluation research and detailed comparative study of community development activity in three diverse demonstration sites, Ross Gittell and Avis Vidal identify key elements necessary for building capital, which in turn strongly affect community development: comprehension of community development, credibility of effort and participants, confidence, competence, and constructive critiques of efforts. Other elements are more relevant to program management and implementation and include communication among participants, congruence of program effort, management of inherent contradiction, and adjusting implementation to reflect local context.