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  • Formāts: Paperback / softback, 304 pages, height x width: 231x187 mm, weight: 570 g
  • Izdošanas datums: 04-Apr-2012
  • Izdevniecība: SAGE Publications Inc
  • ISBN-10: 1412994055
  • ISBN-13: 9781412994057
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  • Formāts: Paperback / softback, 304 pages, height x width: 231x187 mm, weight: 570 g
  • Izdošanas datums: 04-Apr-2012
  • Izdevniecība: SAGE Publications Inc
  • ISBN-10: 1412994055
  • ISBN-13: 9781412994057
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Stoecker (community and environmental sociology, U. of Wisconsin-Madison) updates his handbook for researchers to incorporate both his own experience on the street, and growth and change in community sociology generally over the five years since the first edition appeared. Among his topics are the goose approach to research, the community development context of research, diagnosing, implementing research as the project, evaluation, and beyond information. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Research Methods for Community Change: A Project-Based Approach, Second Edition is an in-depth review of all of the research methods that communities can use to solve problems, develop their resources, protect their identities, and build power. With an engaging writing style and numerous real world examples, Randy Stoecker shows how to use a project-based research model in the community to: diagnose a community condition; prescribe an intervention for the condition; implement the prescription; and evaluate its impact. At every stage of this model there are research tasks, from needs and assets assessments to process and outcome studies. Readers also learn the importance of involving community members at every stage of the project and in every aspect of the research, making the research part of the community-building process.

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In its community-based focus and careful attention to the micro, inter-group and institutional dynamics of project centered research in and with communities, this text stands alone. I am not aware of another text that provides such an in-depth framework and rationale for community-centered research practice, as well as grounded details and guidance on the opportunities and challenges in integrating research more effectively and equitably through the different stages of the project cycle. -- C. Clare Hinrichs  



Research Methods for Community Change is a valuable text for undergraduate and graduate students alike. Readers seeking to understand new directions in social science research generally, or embark on their own community-based research will be well served by the mix of theory and practice, real-world examples, and student-friendly tone. [ ...] He is to be praised for offering a means for the next generation to engage in the communities in which they live, rather than remain holed up in a computer lab somewhere, trying in vain to find meaningful correlations instead of simply asking more meaningful and community-informed questions -- Johannes Wheeldon

Preface and Acknowledgments xi
About the Author xvii
1 "But I Don't..."
1(24)
"But I Don't Do Research"
1(2)
"But I Don't Do Community Work"
3(1)
"So What Is Research?"
4(4)
"Okay, So I Do Research Already Why Do I Need to Learn About It?"
8(3)
"I'm Already Running Full-Out Managing Our Programs. How Can I Do More Research Too?"
11(2)
"I'm Still Not Convinced. But Just in Case, Where Do I Start?"
13(5)
"So Where Do I and My Community Fit In?"
18(2)
Conclusion and Coming Attractions
20(1)
The Goose Story
21(1)
Resources
22(1)
Notes
22(3)
2 The Goose Approach to Research
25(22)
Have You Ever Felt Like an Interloper?
25(2)
Participatory Action Approaches to Research
27(4)
A Participatory Action Research Approach
31(4)
Loose Gravel
35(8)
Conclusion
43(1)
Resources
44(1)
Notes
45(2)
3 The Community Development Context of Research
47(28)
Learning from Pandora
47(2)
What Is Community Development?
49(3)
Research and Community Development
52(4)
Building Research Relationships in a Community Development Context
56(6)
Loose Gravel
62(9)
Conclusion
71(1)
Resources
72(1)
Notes
72(3)
4 Head and Hand Together: A Project-Based Research Model
75(28)
The Head and Hand Split
75(2)
From Head and Hand to Research and Action
77(2)
Of Programs and Projects
79(2)
The Project-Based Research Model: Diagnose, Prescribe, Implement, Evaluate
81(6)
The Project-Based Research Model and Participatory Flexibility
87(3)
Where Are You In the Project Cycle?
90(2)
Loose Gravel
92(6)
Conclusion
98(1)
Resources
99(1)
Notes
99(4)
5 Diagnosing
103(26)
How to Survive on a Deserted Island
103(1)
The Impetus for Diagnosis
104(2)
Structures for a Diagnostic Process: The Core Group
106(3)
Strategies for a Diagnostic Process: Problems, Opportunities, and Issues
109(1)
The Problems Approach: Needs Assessment
110(3)
The Opportunities Approach: Asset Mapping
113(2)
Of Needs and Resources
115(6)
Loose Gravel
121(3)
Conclusion
124(1)
Resources
125(1)
Notes
125(4)
6 Prescribing: Researching Options
129(28)
Which Way Should You Go From Here?
129(2)
A Planning Approach
131(1)
Program Prescriptions
132(9)
The Special Case of Policy Prescriptions
141(7)
Loose Gravel
148(5)
Conclusion
153(1)
Resources
154(1)
Notes
155(2)
7 Implementing: When Research Is the Project
157(32)
Making Who-ville Heard
157(2)
Research as Action
159(3)
Community Research
162(7)
Target Research
169(11)
Loose Gravel
180(2)
Conclusion
182(1)
Resources
183(1)
Notes
184(5)
8 Evaluation
189(26)
Back to the Future, or Messing With the Space-Time Continuum
189(3)
Choices in Evaluation
192(7)
Participatory Evaluation From the Beginning
199(4)
Participatory Evaluation as an Integrated Process
203(5)
Loose Gravel
208(3)
Conclusion
211(1)
Resources
212(1)
Notes
212(3)
9 Beyond Information
215(22)
The Art of Paying Attention
215(3)
The Project-Based Research Cycle Revisited
218(3)
Role Models for Research as a Daily Practice
221(2)
Behind the Fun: Information Management and Information Technology
223(4)
Loose Gravel: Information Myths and Monsters
227(5)
Project-Based Research and the Future of Civilization
232(1)
In Conclusion
233(1)
Notes
234(3)
Appendix A Strategic Planning 237(8)
Appendix B Research Ethics and the Institutional Review Board 245(10)
Appendix C Writing Proposals 255(6)
Appendix D Data Resources 261(2)
Author Index 263(6)
Subject Index 269
Randy Stoecker is a Professor of Community and Environmental Sociology at the University of Wisconsin, with a joint appointment at the University of Wisconsin Extension Center for Community and Economic Development. He is the moderator/editor of COMM-ORG: The On-Line Conference on Community Organizing and Development (http://comm-org.wisc.edu). His areas of expertise include community organizing and development, participatory action research/evaluation, and community information technology. He has been involved in a wide variety of community-based participatory research projects and participatory evaluations with community development corporations, community organizing groups, and community information technology programs across North America and Australia. He also helped build and evaluate university-community collaborations through the Corella and Bertram F. Bonner Foundations Learn and Serve America Community Research Project. Randy trains, speaks and writes extensively on community organizing and development, community-based participatory research, service learning, and community information technology. He is author of Defending Community (1994) co-author of Community-Based Research and Higher Education (2003), and co-editor of The Unheard Voices: Community Organizations and Service Learning (2009). You can find his complete curriculum vitae at http://comm-org.wisc.edu/stoeckerfolio/stoeckvita.htm. He resides in Madison, Wisconsin with his wife and 50-pound standard poodle (his daughter is now away at college), and wishes he lived in a society where research has become such an integral part of the culture that people are no longer fooled into making self-destructive political choices.