1st Edition
Transforming Social Action into Social Change Improving Policy and Practice
By Shana Cohen
Copyright 2018
152 Pages
by
Routledge
152 Pages
by
Routledge
152 Pages
by
Routledge
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Cohen offers a new framework for analyzing social projects and local social activism. Rather than look at how single projects are designed and managed to evaluate their impact, the approach calls for analyzing fields of social action: policy and politics, institutional behavior, social networks among policymakers and practitioners, and availability of funding and other resources. Combined, they... Read more
1. Bridging Policy and Practice
2. Assessing the Context of Social Action
3. Analyzing Fields of Social Action
Conclusion
Biography
Shana Cohen is a Research Associate with the Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. Cohen’s research interests include the politics of social action, inequality and political identity, nonprofit management, and community development.
