How civic action works : fighting for housing in Los Angeles / Paul Lichterman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lichterman, Paul, 1959- author.

Series:

Princeton studies in cultural sociology.

Princeton studies in cultural sociology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Housing--California--Los Angeles.

Housing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource 353 p..)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2021]

Summary:

This text renews the tradition of inquiry into collective, social problem-solving. The book follows grassroots activists, nonprofit organization staff, and community service volunteers in three coalitions and twelve organizations in Los Angeles as they campaign for affordable housing, develop new housing, or address homelessness. The book shows that to understand how social advocates build their campaigns, craft claims, and choose goals, we need to move beyond well-established thinking about what is strategic.

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

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Description based on print version record.

includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780691177519

0691177511

OCLC:

1223095005