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The community development process : the rediscovery of local initiative

Title
The community development process : the rediscovery of local initiative / William W. Biddle ; with the collaboration of Loureide J. Biddle.
Author
Biddle, William W. (William Wishart), 1900-1973
Publication
New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1965]

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Biddle, Loureide J.
Description
xiv, 334 pages; 22 cm
Summary
USA. Study of community development methods and possibilities. Case studies of rural areas and of urban areas community development. Relation to national planning, social sciences, religion and education. Bibliography pp. 297 to 324.
Subject
  • Community development
  • Economic assistance, Domestic > United States
  • Social planning
  • Social change
  • Social groups
  • Sociology, Urban
  • Social Planning
  • Social Change
  • Group Processes
  • Community Participation
  • urban sociology
  • community development
  • Sociology, Urban
  • Social planning
  • Social groups
  • Social change
  • Community development
  • Economic assistance, Domestic
  • Opbouwwerk
  • rural area
  • urban area
  • national planning
  • social sciences
  • religion
  • education
  • développement communautaire
  • zone rurale
  • zone urbaine
  • planification nationale
  • sciences sociales
  • éducation
  • desarrollo de la comunidad
  • zona rural
  • zona urbana
  • planificación nacional
  • ciencias sociales
  • religión
  • educación
  • United States
  • USA
  • Etats-Unis
  • Estados Unidos
Genre/Form
  • bibliography.
  • bibliographie.
  • bibliografía.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 297-324.
Contents
Ch. 1. Introduction : a new hope -- ch. 2. A rural project -- ch. 3. An urban project -- ch. 4. Intention and outcome -- ch. 5. Definitions -- ch. 6. The basic nucleus -- ch. 7. The larger nucleus -- ch. 8. Research design -- ch. 9. Microprocesses in the midst of macroprograms -- ch. 10. The rural scene -- ch. 11. The metropolitan scene -- ch. 12. Scientific relatedness -- ch. 13. Relation to social welfare work -- ch. 14. Relation to religion -- ch. 15. Relation to education -- ch. 16. The encourager -- Appendix I. Community development in the United States -- Appendix II. Bibliographies. A. Social scientific theory and background (A selected list) B. Community development in the United States and around the world -- Index.
ISBN
  • 0030512956
  • 9780030512957
  • 0030513956
  • 9780030513954
  • 0030513952
LCCN
65014886
OCLC
  • ocm00711454
  • 711454
  • SCSB-8968301
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library