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Community-Based Organizations
The Intersection of Social Capital and Local Context in Contemporary Urban Society

Edited by Robert Mark Silverman 		In response to the ongoing debate over the role social capital plays in the creation and continuation of a healthy civic culture, Community-Based Organizations studies the close relationship that social capital shares with local context, social organization, and institutional structure.
The book offers vital extensions to existing literature on social capital and allows the reader to consider this topic from multiple perspectives through its broad spectrum of interdisciplinary essays by sociologists, political scientists, and urban planners. The essays discuss important steps in the mobilization of social capital, as well as its role in microfinance programs, community development corporations, homeowners associations, religious institutions, and neighborhood associations. Individual chapters present an array of theoretical arguments, empirical analysis, and applied case studies.		 “Drawing on a collection of provocative case studies, this book demonstrates social capital’s potential for the purpose of progressive community development. In doing so, it helps us understand how disadvantaged communities can improve their social position while also enhancing democratic participation.”
—Steven J. Gold, Michigan State University, co-author of Ethnic Economies

Robert Mark Silverman is associate professor of Urban Planning at SUNY-Buffalo.
 
$36.95s paper / ISBN 0-8143-3157-2

228 pages / 6 x 9
3 illustrations

2004

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