Bridging Regional Growth and Community EmpowermentMichael A. Stegman, William J. Benfanti, John P. Ross DIANE Publishing, 1996 - 176 من الصفحات Contents: ideas matter: reflections on the new regionalism; central cities' loss of power in state politics; inside-out: regional networks and industrial adaptation in Silicon Valley and Route 128; specialization vs. diversity in local economies: the implications for innovative private-sector behavior; crime and community: continuities, contradictions, and complexities; community empowerment strategies: the limits and potential of community organizing in urban neighborhoods; and comprehensive neighborhood-based initiatives. Charts and tables. |
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الصفحة 64 - An entity learns if, through its processing of information, the range of its potential behaviors is changed" (Huber 1991, 89) is an example for the first category.
الصفحة 105 - ... and since it is only through the organizations to which men belong that their interests and resources can be enlisted for a collective cause, it may be inferred that social control in the city should typically proceed through formally organized groups. It follows, too, that the masses of men in the city are subject to manipulation by symbols and stereotypes managed by individuals working from afar or operating invisibly behind the scenes through their control of the instruments of communication.
الصفحة 99 - The distinctive features of the urban mode of life have often been described sociologically as consisting of the substitution of secondary for primary contacts, the weakening of bonds of kinship, and the declining social significance of the family, the disappearance of the neighborhood, and the undermining of the traditional basis of social solidarity.
الصفحة 174 - Forum, managed by the Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago...
الصفحة 102 - REDATORY crime does not merely victimize individuals, it impedes and, in the extreme case, even prevents the formation and maintenance of community. By disrupting the delicate nexus of ties, formal and informal, by which we are linked with our neighbors, crime atomizes society and makes of its members mere individual calculators estimating their own advantage, especially their own chances for survival amidst their fellows.
الصفحة 45 - ... 7). Such a perspective could help transcend a soft institutionalism not least by emphasizing: ...that it is insufficient to direct attention to interfirm relations and the construction of openness, cooperation, and collaboration if one does not also address questions of transforming firms...
الصفحة 101 - If social disorganization involves a "decrease of the influence of existing social rules," and the rules referred to are those of the peasant society from which the immigrants came, then the slum is certainly disorganized. However, that is only a part of the picture. It is fruitless to study the area simply in terms of the breakdown of old groupings and old standards; new groupings and new standards have arisen. A large majority of the young men of the district participate in the social world dominated...
الصفحة 100 - The conflict of cultures is the fundamental principle in the explanation of crime.
الصفحة 105 - With these findings in mind it appears that a fruitful program for the treatment and prevention of delinquency and crime must necessarily address itself to the community environment, the local social world in which the delinquent and the criminal have their genesis. The problem in realistic terms is one of achieving a new organization of life in these local deteriorated communities. As an objective, society can aim toward the development of a new and local spirit of collective welfare, expressed...