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How civic action works : fighting for housing in Los Angeles /

The ways that social advocates organize to fight unaffordable housing and homelessness in Los Angeles, illuminated by a new conceptual framework for studying collective actionHow Civic Action Works renews the tradition of inquiry into collective, social problem solving. Paul Lichterman follows grass...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lichterman, Paul (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2021]
Colección:Princeton studies in cultural sociology.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: How About a Bigger Box?
  • New Sociology of Civic Action
  • Placing and Studying the Action
  • Solving Problems by Fighting for an Interest
  • Solving Problems by Protecting an Identity
  • Why Follow the Style, Not Just the Organization?
  • What Is Winning? How Style Shapes Strategies, Goals, and Trade-offs
  • Who Can Say What, Where, and How? Follow the Claims Making
  • How Homelessness Does Not Become a Housing Problem
  • Hybrid Problem Solving : Creating Affordable Housing
  • Conclusion: Benefits of a Bigger Box
  • Appendix I: Putting Together the Study
  • Appendix II: Who Was the Ethnographer? Reflections on the Field Research.