Community (eBook)

The Structure of Belonging

Peter Block (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018 | 2. Auflage
240 Seiten
Berrett-Koehler Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-5230-9558-2 (ISBN)

Infos

As a response to the increasing violence in our culture, the widening ideological divides, and the growing gap in economic well-being, there is greater awareness that a deeper sense of community is desperately needed. But even as we acknowledge the need to build community, the dominant on-the-ground practices about how to engage people, civically and organizationally, remain essentially unchanged. We still believe community is built with better messaging, more persuasion, and social events for people to get to know each other better. All of which is naïve.

In this new edition, Block draws on a decade of putting these ideas into practice to emphasize what has worked and extract those thoughts that were nice but had no durability. He explores how technology, instead of bringing us together, has driven us into more isolation. New examples show that community building can be a more powerful way to address social problems than more traditional policies and programs. And encouragingly, Block insists this is really simple, once we decide it is essential. He offers a way of thinking that creates an opening for authentic communities to exist and details what each of us can do to make that happen.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.7.2018
• Verlagsort: Oakland
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Planung / Organisation
• Schlagworte: books for leaders • building community • building community, art of community building, how to create unity, creating unity in todays world, creating sense of community, shaping a better future, leadership books, rescuing broken america, civil leadership books, family and community, creating strong organization, guide to building organization, overcoming social problems, keys to success, health and happiness, business development, personal development, self help books, career, book club reads, discussion books • building community, creating, fostering, sense of belonging, books for leaders, social science, sociology, education, civil leadership, organizational behavior, self improvement, keys to success, practical, inclusion • Civil leadership • creating • Education • fostering • Inclusion • keys to success • Organizational Behavior • Practical • Self Improvement • Sense of Belonging • Social Science • Sociology
• ISBN-10: 1-5230-9558-X / 152309558X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5230-9558-2 / 9781523095582