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Transforming Social Action into Social Change - Couverture souple

Cohen, Shana

 
9781138050594: Transforming Social Action into Social Change
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1138050598 ISBN 13 : 9781138050594
Editeur : Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

Cohen offers a new framework for analyzing social projects and local social activism. Rather than look at how single projects are designed and managed to evaluate their impact, the approach calls for analyzing fields of social action: policy and politics, institutional behavior, social networks among policymakers and practitioners, and availability of funding and other resources. Combined, they affect the conceptualization of a social problem and the design and practice of social intervention. More broadly, through circumscribing the range of thinking about social problems, they delimit possibilities to generate social change. Analyzing fields also allows for linking macro-level trends in areas like policy to decision-making within individual organizations and the effectiveness of projects at instigating the desired transformation in individual and collective behavior.

Working together, policymakers, individual activists, nonprofit organizations, and staff in public institutions like schools and hospitals can critique and alter fields to challenge more effectively social problems. This collaboration, in turn, affects how social policies are designed and ultimately, the politics of social change.

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À propos de l'auteur

Shana Cohen is a Research Associate with the Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. Cohen's research interests include the politics of social action, inequality and political identity, nonprofit management, and community development.

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1138050598
ISBN 13 
9781138050594
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
152
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
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