Handbook of Community Movements and Local Organizations

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Contemporary Conceptions of Community

Chapter 3 Symbolism, Tradition, Ritual, and the Deep Structure of Communities

Chapter 4 Small Towns and Mass Society

Chapter 5 Small Nonprofits and Civil Society: Civic Engagement and Social Capital

Chapter 6 Community Elites and Power Structure

Chapter 7 The Political-Economic Gradient and the Organization of Urban Space

Chapter 8 Public and Private Space in Urban Areas: House, Neighborhood, and City

Chapter 9 The Development of Community Information Systems to Support Neighborhood Change

Chapter 10 Describing the Community in Thorough Detail

Chapter 11 Communities as “Big Small Groups”: Culture and Social Capital

Chapter 12 Sense of Community and Community Building

Chapter 13 Friendship and Community Organization

Chapter 14 Self-Help Groups as Participatory Action

Chapter 15 Online Communities

Chapter 16 Alternative or Intentional? Towards a Definition of “Unusual” Communities

Chapter 17 Frayed Community: The Gated Community Movement

Chapter 18 Congregations and Communities

Chapter 19 Ethnicity and Race as Resource Mobilization in American Community Civic Life and Participation: Traditional and Emerging Concerns

Chapter 20 Sustaining Racially, Ethnically, and Economically Diverse Communities

Chapter 21 Community Responses to Disaster: Northern Ireland 1969 as a Case Study

Chapter 22 The Nature of Community Organizing: Social Capital and Community Leadership

Chapter 23 Avoid, Talk, or Fight: Alternative Cultural Strategies in the Battle Against Oligarchy in Collectivist-Democratic Organizations

Chapter 24 Grassroots Social Movements and the Shaping of History

Chapter 25 Action Research: Professional Researchers in the Community

Chapter 26 Leadership Styles and Leadership Change in Human and Community Service Organizations

Chapter 27 Including and Excluding Volunteers: Challenges of Managing Groups That Depend on Donated Talent