Transforming Social Action into Social Change: Improving Policy and Practice

by Shana Cohen

Book Overview

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 affect the conceptualization of a social problem and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138050598
• ISBN13: 9781138050594
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"