| Description |
(xxii, 385 pages) : illustrations ; 21cm |
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A Free Press paperback |
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Free Press paperback.
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| Contents |
Introduction to the paperback edition -- Preface -- 1. How to use this book -- 2. Your community : its background and setting. Geography and transportation ; The people of your community ; Local history ; Traditions and values -- 3. Your community's economic life. The economic structure of your community ; Employment and working conditions in your community ; Your community's industrial future -- 4. Government, politics, and law enforcement. Local governmental units ; Structure, administration, and functions ; Personnel ; Expenditures and taxes ; Civil defense ; Political organization ; Primaries and elections ; Voluntary citizens' organizations ; Crime and law enforcement -- 5. Community planning. The need for planning ; Types of planning ; Planning boards and planning processes ; Intercommunity planning ; Zoning and other land-use controls ; Some special planning problems ; Capital improvement plan ; Citizen participation in planning --6. Housing. Housing conditions in your community ; Slum clearance and urban redevelopment ; Low-rent and limited dividend housing ; Neighborhoods as units of housing ; Citizen organizations and housing -- 7. Education. Structure and administration ; Teachers ; Instruction and pupil participation ; Special services ; The school and the community ; Adult education ; Libraries and museums ; Private schools ; Higher education -- 8. Recreation. Public recreation ; Private and semi-public recreation programs and cultural facilities ; Commercial facilities ; Informal activities ; Planning the community's recreation -- 9. Religious activities. Number and types of churches ; Church location, population shifts, and economic groups ; Buildings and equipment ; Services for worship ; Clergymen ; Church organizations ; Interfaith relations ; Religious action in the community ; Changes in functions ; Some aids to the church survey -- 10. Social insurance and public assistance. Social insurance ; Public assistance ; Citizens and the welfare department |
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11. Aids to family living and child welfare. Services to strengthen the family ; Family casework ; Social services for children in their own homes ; Child placement and adoption services ; Juvenile delinquents ; Citizen action for family and child welfare -- 12. Health. Health background factors ; Health personnel ; Hospitals ; Public health services ; Communicable diseases ; Chronic diseases ; Paying for medical care ; Voluntary health organizations ; Mental health and the mentally ill -- 13. Provision for special groups. The handicapped ; The aging ; Migrant farm workers ; Displaced persons -- 14. Communication. The press ; Radio and television ; Motion pictures ; Other media of communication ; Propaganda and censorship -- 15. Intergroup relations. Your community's social groups ; Discrimination against minority groups ; Programs to improve intergroup relations ; 16. Associations. Types of associations ; Characteristics of individual associations ; The pattern of associations in your community -- 17. Community organization. Community organization functions ; Types of community organization agency -- 18. Organizing a community survey. Different kinds and uses of surveys ; Steps in a citizens' survey ; Human relations in survey work -- 19. Aids to the survey. Choosing the geographic area for study ; Using the census ; Useful reference books ; What you can do with maps ; Delineating the rural community ; How to delineate the urban neighborhood ; Some hints in interviewing ; Using questionnaires and schedules -- 20. Some important aspects of the community. Your community: rural or urban? ; People and their environment ; Social classes in the community ; The community's informal structure ; Primary, secondary, and mass relations in the community ; Social functions and social agencies ; Social change and your community's problems -- List of agencies |
| Analysis |
Social surveys |
| Notes |
Originally supported and published by Russell Sage Foundation |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliography |
| Subject |
Decorative arts -- Scandinavia -- Exhibitions.
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Industrial design -- Exhibitions.
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Social surveys.
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Research.
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Social Planning.
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Sociometric Techniques.
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| Genre/Form |
Exhibition catalogs.
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| Author |
Remlov, Arne
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American Federation of Arts.
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National Gallery of Canada.
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| LC no. |
55007727 |
| ISBN |
0029339901 |
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