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John W. Murphy

Community-Based Interventions

Philosophy and Action

Ebook (PDF Format)

For decades, community-centered social services have been promoted as an admirable ideal. Yet the concept of decentralized services delivered where people live has proved to be an elusive ideal as well, with the promise of empowerment often giving way to disinterest and apathy.Community-Based Interventions examines the reasons community programs tend to founder, and proposes a realistic framework for sustained success. The book's theoretical, philosophical, and political foundations begin with the importance of context, as in local knowledge and community self-definition and engagement. Innovative, often startling, approaches to planning, des… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-1-4899-8020-5
  • EAN: 9781489980205
  • Produktnummer: 18249949
  • Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
  • Seitenangabe: 169 S.
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 1'750 KB
  • Auflage: 2014
  • Abbildungen: 1 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, Bibliographie

Über den Autor


John W. Murphy has a PhD in sociology from Ohio State University. For the past thirty years he has been writing on and working in community-based projects in both the United States and several countries in Latin America. Most recently he worked on a project in Ecuador that was devoted to building a health center in a poor community. Currently he is a professor of sociology at the University of Miami. He is co-author of Symbolization of Globalization, Development and Aging (in production).

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