Community-Centered Practice

Reading List

Bowles, Samuel. 1999. ‘Social capital’ and community governance. Focus 20 (3): 6-10.

Coleman, J.S. 1988. Social capital in the creation of human capital. American Journal of Sociology. 94: 95-120.

Durlauf, Steven N. 1999. The case ‘against’ social capital. Focus 20 (3): 1-5.

Granovetter, Mark S. 1973. The strength of weak ties. American Journal of Sociology 78 (6): 1360-80.

Granovetter, Mark S. 1983. The strength of weak ties: A network theory revisited. In Peter V. Marsden and Nan Lin, eds., Social Structure and Network Analysis. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.

Harris, Judith. 1998. The Nurture Assumption. New York: The Free Press.

Husock, Howard. 1992. Bringing back the settlement house. The Public Interest No. 106 – 109: 53 – 72.

Housing Policy Debate. 1998. Volume 9, Issue 1. (Whole issue on social capital.)

Katz, Lawrence F., and Anne C. Case. 1991. The company you keep: The effects of family and neighborhoods on disadvantaged youths. Working paper No. 3705. Cambridge: National Bureau of Economic Research.

Kelling, George L., and Catherine M. Coles. 1996. Fixing broken windows: Restoring order and reducing crime in our communities. New York: Martin Kessler Books.

Kingsley, G. Thomas, Joseph B. McNeeley, and James O. Gibson. 1997. Community Building: Coming of Age. Washington, D.C.: The Urban Institute.

All of the following articles by Thomas E. Lengyel are available on-line in the Research Archives at www.Alliance1.org

Lengyel, Thomas E.

• 1998a Pinpointing the effects of community-centered practice. (unpublished)

• 1998b How to integrate counseling into a community-centered orientation. FSA/NAHSC News (June): 9.

• 1998c How well do we know consumer strengths? Or, social work assessment meets Godzilla. The Roundtable 2 (2): 5.

• 1999 The measurement of social capital in community building efforts. The Roundtable 2 (6):9.

• 2000a Community building and delivery of services: Two distinct paradigms. The Roundtable 3 (3): 9.

• 2000b Community-centered redesign of service-delivery programs. The Roundtable 3 (4): 8 (ff).

• 2000c The social networks of suicidal people. The Roundtable 3 (5): 6.

McKnight, John. 1987. Regenerating community. Social Policy winter issue (page numbers not available).

Potapchuk, William R., Jarle P. Crocker, Dina Boogaard, and William H. Schechter. 1998. Building Community: Exploring The Role of Social Capital and Local Government. Washington, D.C.: Program for Community Problem Solving.

Putnam, Robert D. 1993. The prosperous community: Social capital and public life. The American Prospect 13: 35 – 42.

Putnam, Robert D. 1995. Bowling alone: America’s declining social capital. Journal of Democracy 6 (1): 65 - 78.

Sampson, Robert J., Stephen W. Raudenbush, and Felton Earls. 1997. Neighborhoods and violent crime: A multilevel study of collective efficacy. Science 277: 918 – 924.

Sampson, Robert J. 1992. Family management and child development: Insights from social disorganization theory. In Joan McCord (ed.), Facts, Frameworks, and Forecasts. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers.

Spense, Lewis H. 1993. Rethinking the social role of public housing. Housing Policy Debate: 4 (3): 355 – 68.

Sviridoff, Mitchell and William Ryan. 1996. Investing in community: Lessons and implications of the comprehensive community revitalization program (ms.).

Sviridoff, Mitchell. 1994. The seeds of urban revival. The Public Interest 114: 82 – 103. (Reprinted from National Affairs 1990).

Wilson, James Q., and George L. Kelling. 1982. Broken windows. The Atlantic Monthly (March): 29 - 38.