How Civic Action Works : : Fighting for Housing in Los Angeles /

How Civic Action Works : : Fighting for Housing in Los Angeles / / Paul Lichterman.

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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Lichterman, Paul,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]
©2021
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology ; 8
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Physical Description:1 online resource (360 p.) :; 3 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1 A New Sociology of Civic Action
  • 2 Placing and Studying the Action
  • 3 Solving Problems by Fighting for an Interest
  • 4 Solving Problems by Protecting an Identity
  • 5 Why Follow the Style, Not Just the Organization?
  • 6 What Is Winning?
  • 7 Who Can Say What, Where, and How?
  • 8 How Homelessness Does Not Become a Housing Problem
  • 9 Hybrid Problem Solving
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix I: Putting Together the Study
  • Appendix II: Who Was the Ethnographer?
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • A NOTE ON THE TYPE

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