How civic action works fighting for housing in Los Angeles

How civic action works fighting for housing in Los Angeles

The ways that social advocates organize to fight unaffordable housing and homelessness in Los Angeles, illuminated by a new conceptual framework for studying collective actionHow Civic Action Works renews the tradition of inquiry into collective, social problem solving. Paul Lichterman follows grass...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lichterman, Paul
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton Princeton University Press, [2021]
Series:Princeton studies in cultural sociology.
Subjects:
California > Los Angeles.
Housing > California > Los Angeles.
Housing > Prices > California > Los Angeles.
Homelessness > California > Los Angeles.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban.
Homelessness.
Housing.
Housing > Prices.
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Online Access:https://www.lib.tsu.ru/mminfo/2023/EBSCO/2497669.pdf
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: How About a Bigger Box?
  • New Sociology of Civic Action
  • Placing and Studying the Action
  • Solving Problems by Fighting for an Interest
  • Solving Problems by Protecting an Identity
  • Why Follow the Style, Not Just the Organization?
  • What Is Winning? How Style Shapes Strategies, Goals, and Trade-offs
  • Who Can Say What, Where, and How? Follow the Claims Making
  • How Homelessness Does Not Become a Housing Problem
  • Hybrid Problem Solving : Creating Affordable Housing
  • Conclusion: Benefits of a Bigger Box
  • Appendix I: Putting Together the Study
  • Appendix II: Who Was the Ethnographer? Reflections on the Field Research.

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