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Renewing Hope within Neighborhoods of Despair

The Community-Based Development Model

By: Herbert J. Rubin

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Renewing Hope within Neighborhoods of Despair

The Community-Based Development Model

By: Herbert J. Rubin

Builds upon the narratives of community development activists to describe how they bring about affordable, quality housing, commercial opportunities and empowerment within poor areas.

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0791445534

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Qualitative Interviewing

The Art of Hearing Data

By: Herbert J. Rubin,Irene Rubin

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Qualitative Interviewing

The Art of Hearing Data

By: Herbert J. Rubin,Irene Rubin

The 2nd edition of this work has been completely rewritten to add new examples & to better integrate the presentation of topics. Readers will see how the choice of topic influences question wording & how the questions asked influence the analysis.

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SAGE

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0761920757

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Advocacy for Social Change

Coalitions and the Organizations That Lead Them

By: Herbert J. Rubin

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Advocacy for Social Change

Coalitions and the Organizations That Lead Them

By: Herbert J. Rubin

This book portrays how small, geographically dispersed, and progressive social change and social service organizations working within a coalition can influence national-level social policies. Based on extensive empirical research on two national organizations and their local affiliates, one focusing on affordable housing and the other working to protect lower-income communities, this book shows the ways in which professionally staffed organizations that coordinate coalitions come about, and describes their work to mobilize coalition members to lobby and advocate, providing information, analysis and instruction to facilitate such action and, in so doing, becoming the public voice for the social change efforts of coalitions. Advocacy for Social Change details the characteristics of these organizations that the author has labeled as focal catalytic coalition organizations and then provides numerous examples of campaigns led by them on affordable housing and economic justice; campaigns that illustrate tactics that other social change organizations can emulate. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology with interests in social problems, social action, political sociology, urban studies, community development and organizing while extending the literature on interest group lobbying.

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Routledge

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1351348477

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9781351348478

Behind the Scenes in Social Research

How Practical and Personal Matters Affect a Project

By: Herbert J. Rubin

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Behind the Scenes in Social Research

How Practical and Personal Matters Affect a Project

By: Herbert J. Rubin

Behind the Scenes in Social Research discusses the informal, adaptive, and real-life process of doing social science research. It complements the material in standard methods texts that describe the basics—how to choose topics and ways of obtaining and analyzing data—but in doing so miss out on many of the obstacles and practicalities of doing research. Researchers may find themselves adrift when they start their research and discover that what confronts them doesn’t precisely match exactly what is described in the basic textbooks, such as the obstacles that frequently occur, the logistical matters that must be handled, and the improvisations in research design and data gathering techniques that successful projects require. This book covers this material, while also paying attention to the ways in which the personal characteristics of those doing the research affect how projects are designed and data gathered. In addition, it explores the manner in which doing research affects the researchers themselves, affecting self-images, altering political or social views, or providing skills that extend beyond the research enterprise. Based on the author’s own experiences and interviews with senior researchers in a variety of social science fields, Behind the Scenes in Social Research explores the practical problems that arise in undertaking a research project while showing how these problems can be overcome through perseverance and improvisation. It will therefore appeal to scholars and students across the social science with interests in research methods and the practical issues that arise during any research project.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000831140

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9781000831146

Persuading Local Government

How to Organize and Implement Effective Advocacy Campaigns

By: Herbert J. Rubin

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Persuading Local Government

How to Organize and Implement Effective Advocacy Campaigns

By: Herbert J. Rubin

This book provides a guide to becoming an empowered citizen, capable of achieving success when advocating with local government. Based on interviews with mayors, together with documentary evidence, analyses of public meetings, and the author’s own experience of advocacy, volunteering on city committees, and work on political campaigns, it describes how to advocate with local government officials, whom to contact, what to say when and where, and how to locate the facts, figures, and stories that can lend credence to an advocacy campaign. Guided by the ideas that persuasion efforts can succeed, are not difficult to undertake, and are in fact appreciated by public officials; that the system is open and that citizens have a fair chance of advancing their point of view; and that democracy depends upon citizen engagement, it presents concrete case studies in order to illustrate the guidance provided. With advice on how to organize and implement a successful advocacy campaign at a local level—and what to avoid—Persuading Local Government provides an antidote to the alienation of national politics, showing that local efforts at persuasion are meaningful and effect change on matters that affect people’s everyday lives.

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1000566099

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Metals in Groundwater

By: Herbert E. Allen,E. Michael Perdue,David S. Brown

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Metals in Groundwater

By: Herbert E. Allen,E. Michael Perdue,David S. Brown

Metal contamination of groundwater results from many human activities, including agriculture, mining, and the disposal of municipal waste and fly ash. Metals in Groundwater describes the transport of metals to groundwater from these and other sources. It also covers risk assessment of metals in groundwater, coupling of chemicals and hydrological models, and sorption of metals onto soils and clays. The speciation of metals is examined in detail. The book will interest researchers in environmental quality, mining, and agriculture; consultants; industry professionals; and personnel within regulatory agencies.

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CRC Press

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1000114929

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9781000114928

Taking Control

Autonomy in Language Learning

By: Richard Pemberton,Edward S.L. Li,Winnie W.F. Or,Herbert D. Pierson

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Taking Control

Autonomy in Language Learning

By: Richard Pemberton,Edward S.L. Li,Winnie W.F. Or,Herbert D. Pierson

TAKING CONTROL: Autonomy in Language Learning focuses on an area of language learning and teaching that is currently receiving an increasing amount of attention. The book, featuring 18 chapters from key figures around the world in the field of autonomous and self-access language learning, provides insightful coverage of the theoretical issues involved, and represents a significant contribution to research in this area. At the same time, it provides a variety of examples of current practice, in classrooms and self-access centres, at secondary and tertiary levels, and in a number of different cultural contexts. This volume is a timely publication which will be of interest to all those concerned with learner autonomy and self-directed language learning.

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Hong Kong University Press

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9622094074

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9789622094079

Qualitative Interviewing

The Art of Hearing Data

By: Herbert J. Rubin,Irene S. Rubin

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Qualitative Interviewing

The Art of Hearing Data

By: Herbert J. Rubin,Irene S. Rubin

The book describes in-depth qualitative interviewing from the very beginning to last step, from its underlying philosophy and assumptions to project design, analysis and write up. In responsive interviewing, the stages of research-design, data gathering, and analysis-are intimately linked. Researchers perform analysis throughout their projects, not just at the end, so that as they learn more, they can modify both the research problem they are exploring and the questions they ask. The book assumes no prior knowledge or experience, and the authors' tone is conversational, revealing that interviewers can make mistakes, recover from them and still obtain rich and meaningful information.

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SAGE Publications

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1412978378

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Behind the Scenes in Social Research

How Practical and Personal Matters Affect a Project

By: Herbert J. Rubin

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How Practical and Personal Matters Affect a Project

By: Herbert J. Rubin

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Renewing Hope within Neighborhoods of Despair

The Community-Based Development Model

By: Herbert J. Rubin

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Renewing Hope within Neighborhoods of Despair

The Community-Based Development Model

By: Herbert J. Rubin

Honorable Mention, 2003 Paul Davidoff Award presented by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Renewing Hope within Neighborhoods of Despair builds upon narratives provided by leaders of community-based development organizations (CBDOs) to describe how they bring about affordable, quality housing, commercial opportunities, and employment within poor areas. The book illustrates both the obstacles CBDOs face and how these obstacles are overcome, in part by leveraging resources for social change projects from foundations, government and intermediaries. Guiding the effort of the developmental activists is an organic theory that explains what can and should be accomplished. The material extends new institutionalism models of inter-organizational behavior.

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State University of New York Press

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0791492680

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Renewing Hope within Neighborhoods of Despair

Renewing Hope within Neighborhoods of Despair

Qualitative Interviewing

Qualitative Interviewing

Advocacy for Social Change

Advocacy for Social Change

Behind the Scenes in Social Research

Behind the Scenes in Social Research

Persuading Local Government

Persuading Local Government

Metals in Groundwater

Metals in Groundwater

Taking Control

Taking Control

Qualitative Interviewing

Qualitative Interviewing

Behind the Scenes in Social Research

Behind the Scenes in Social Research

Renewing Hope within Neighborhoods of Despair

Renewing Hope within Neighborhoods of Despair

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