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1 online resource (212 pages) |
Contents |
Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; Part I: The Social Construction of Community; 1 Introduction to the Idea of Community; Introduction; Key Aims; The Concept of Community; Outline of the Book; Conclusion; 2 The Contribution of Community Studies and Increased State Intervention in Communities and Neighbourhoods; Introduction; The Slippery Notion of Community; Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft; Cities and Community; 'Coal Is Our Life' -- A View of the Working Class World in the 1950s; Young and Willmott (1957): The 'Most Widely Read Work of Sociology in Britain' |
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Women and CommunityEthnicity and Community; Neighbourhood Decline and Renewal; Recent Community Studies; Summary and Conclusion; 3 Rethinking Community -- Globalisation, Neo-Liberalism and Inequality; Introduction; Globalisation; Neo-Liberalism; Globalisation, Neo-Liberalism, Inequality and Social Problems; New Communities; What Does This All Mean for Rethinking Community?; Summary and Conclusion; Part II: Community as an Area of Social Policy; 4 Community as an Organising Focus for Social Policy; Introduction; The Rise of Area-Based Policy |
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The CDP Story: An Effective Response to Poverty or Gilding the Ghetto?Two Contemporary Examples of Area-Based Policy -- Sure Start and Health Action Zones; Area-Based Policy -- Towards a Critique; What Lessons Can be Learnt from Area-Based Poverty Experiments and What are the Implications for Social Work?; Summary and Conclusion; 5 Community Care: Promoting an Empowering Service or Using the Market to Contain Costs?; Introduction; The Historical Legacy -- But Whose History?; Community Care in the 1980s; Assessing the Research Evidence, Including Seminal Research by Davies and Challis (1986) |
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Community Care in the 1990sContemporary Issues in Community Care; The Way Forward -- Community Care in the New Millennium; Summary and Conclusion; 6 Remaking Community: Communitarianism and the Modernisation of the Welfare State; Introduction; The Rise of Communitarianism in a Global Context; Communitarianism -- A Critique; An Alternative Discourse of Transformatory Community Action -- The Collective Struggle for Communities; New Labour's 'Third Way' Project to Modernise the Welfare State |
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'Third Way' Communitarian Policy in Action: An Attempt to Readjust the Balance Between Protection and Prevention in Child CareThe Reshaping of Social Work -- A Paradox at the Heart of the 'Third Way'; The Reconstruction of Social Work as 'Tough Love'; Summary and Conclusion; Part III: Social Work and the Community: From Theory to Practice; 7 The Theory and Practice of Community Social Work; Introduction; The Policy Context; The Development of Community Social Work Post Barclay -- Seeking the Less Travelled Road?; A Theoretical Framework for Community Social Work |
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Methods of Intervention in Community Social Work |
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Social service -- Great Britain
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Community organization -- Great Britain
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Community organization
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Social service
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Great Britain
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Electronic book
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Author |
Stepney, Paul
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ISBN |
9781137088345 |
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1137088346 |
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9781137206268 |
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1137206268 |
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