Objectives

After completing this class, you will be able to:

• Analyze the sources of conflict in contemporary communities
• Assess the role of new social movements as ways of addressing the issues, needs and problems of contemporary communities
• Analyze and evaluate the role of conflict in producing social change
  

Allan

Pp. 211-241 1st Ed.; pp. 233-260 2nd Ed.

Blackshaw

Pp. 48-60 (Action Research, Community Profiling, Community Studies)

Other Required Readings

Clemens, P. (2005). Made in Detroit. Anchor Books, New York. Pp. 1-20. e-reserve

Alexander, J.C. (2006). Race and civil repair (4): Regulatory reform and ritualization. Pp. 359-391 in The Civil Sphere, Oxford University Press, New York. e-reserve

Additional Materials

Addor, M.L., Cobb, T.D., Dukes, E.F., Ellerbrock, M. & Smutko, L.S. (2005). Linking theory to practice: A theory of change model of the Natural Resources Leadership Institute. Conflict Resolution Quarterly 23(2), 203-223.

Baillie, L., Broughton, S., Bassett-Smith, J. et al. (2004). Community health, community involvement and community empowerment: Too much to expect? Journal of Community Psychology 32(2), 217-228.

Bugental, D.B., Beaulieu, D.A., Schwartz, A. & Dragosits, R. (2009). Domain-specific responses to power-based interaction. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 45(2), 386-391.

Carroll, M.S., Higgins, L.L., Cohn, P.J. & Burchfield, J. (2006). Community wildfire events as a source of social conflict. Rural Sociology 71(2), 261-280.

Chambers, S.A. (2004). Giving up (on) rights? The future of rights and the project of radical democracy. American Journal of Political Science, 48(2), 185-200.

Chamlin, M.B. (2009). Threat to whom? Conflict, consensus and social control. Deviant Behavior 30(6), 539-559.

Choi, J. & Bowles, S. (2007). The coevolution of parochial altruism and war. Science 318(5850), 636-640.

Collingwood, P. (2007). Recent public sphere theory as an evaluative resource. 3CMedia: Journal of Community, Citizen's & Third Sector Media & Communication 3(1), 15-24..

Connolly, W.E. (2008). Habermas, Deleuze and capitalism. Theory & Event 11(4), 6.

Cooke, B. & Kothari, U. (2001). The case for participation as tyranny. Pages 1-15 in B. Cooke & U. Kothari (eds.), Participation, the new tyranny. Zed Books, London. e-reserve

Coussee, F., Roets, G. & deBie, M. (2009). Empowering the powerful: Challenging hidden processes of marginalization in youth work policy and practice in Belgium. Critical Social Policy 29 (3), 421-442.

Dodman, D. (2009). The creation of community? Citizen action, social movements and the Portmore Toll controversy. Bulletin of Latin American Research 28(3), 364-380.

Edwards, G. (2008). The "lifeworld" as a resource for social movement participation and the consequences of its colonization. Sociology 42(2), 299-316.

Etzioni, A. (2009). The capture theory of regulations -- revisited. Society 46(4), 319-323.

Flynn, J. (2009). Human rights, transnational solidarity and duties to the global Poor. Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory, 16(1), 59-77.

Getty, K.C. & Erchul, W.P. (2009) The influence of gender on the likelihood of using soft social power strategies in school consultation. Psychology in the Schools, 48(5), 447-458.

Ginges, J.A. & Atran, S. (2008). Humiliation and the inertia effect: Implications for understanding violence and compromise in intractable intergroup conflicts. Journal of Cognition & Culture 8(3-4), 281-294.

Girami, A. (2009) Bridging the theory-and-practice gap: Mediator power in practice. Conflict Resolution Quarterly 26(4), 433-451.

Guo, C. & Musso, J.A. (2007). Representation in nonprofit and voluntary organizations: A conceptual framework. Nonprofit & Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 36 (2) 308-326.

Habermas, J. (2009) Life after bankruptcy: An interview with Jurgen Habermas. Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory. 16(2), 227-234.

Head, N. (2008). Critical theory and its practices: Habermas, Kosovo and international relations. Politics 28(3), 150-159.

Healy, S. (2008). Toward an epistemology of public participation. Journal of Environmental Management 90(4), 1644-1654.

Hirsch, J. (2003). The state's new clothes: NGOs and the internationalization of states. Rethinking Marxism 14(2), 237-262.

Hogenstijn, M., van Middelkoop, D. & Terlouw, K. (2008). The established, the outsiders and scale strategies: Studying local power conflicts. Sociological Review 56(1), 144-161.

Holmen, H. & Jirstrom, M. (2009). Look who's talking! Second thoughts about NGOs as representing civil society. Journal of Asian & African Studies 44(4), 429-448.

Kemmelmeier, M., Broadus, A. & Padilla, J.B. (2008). Inter-group aggression in New Orleans in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Analyses of Social Issues & Public Policy. 8(1), 211-245.

Koslowsky, M., Schwarzwald, J. & keshet, S. (2008). Moderators of social power use for in-group/out-group targets: An experimental paradigm. Journal of Applied Social Psychology 38(12), 3036-3052.

Kovarsky, D. (2008). Representing voices from the life-world in evidence-based practice. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders 43(S1), 47-57.

Kwate, N.O.A. (2008). Fried chicken and fresh apples: Racial segregation as a fundamental cause of fast food density in black neighborhoods. Health & Place 14(1), 32-44.

Little, A. (2002). Community and radical democracy. Journal of Political Ideologies 7(3), 369-382.

Maton, K.I. (2008). Empowering community settings: Agents of individual development, community betterment, and positive social change. American Journal of Community Psychology 41(1-2), 4-21.

Meuleman, B., Davidov, E. & Billiet, J. (2009). Changing attitudes toward immigration in Europe, 2002-2007: A dynamic group conflict theory approach. Social Science Research 38(2), 352-365.

Mirchandani, R. (2008). Beyond therapy: Problem-solving courts and the deliberative democratic state. Law & Social Inquiry 33(4), 853-893.

Morris, M. (2009). Social justice and communication: Mill, Marx & Habermas. Social Justice Research, 22(1), 134-155.

Nelson, D.R., Folhes, M.T. & Finan, T.J. (2009). Mapping the road to development: A methodology for scaling up participation in policy processes. Development in Practice 19(3), 386-395.

Orvis, S. (2001) Civil society in Africa or African civil society? Journal of Asian & African Studies 36(1), 17-38.

Powell, F. & Geoghegan, M. (2006). Beyond political zoology: community development, civil society and strong democracy. Community Develoment Journal 41(2), 128-142.

Roof, W.C. (2009) American presidential rhetoric from Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush: Another look at civil religion. Social Compass, 56(2), 286-301.

Rothschild, Z.K., Abdollah, A. & Pyszcaynski, T. (2009). Does peace have a prayer? The effect of mortality salience, compassionate values and religious fundamentalism on hostility toward out-groups. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 45(4), 816-827.

Sandler, J. (2007). Community-based practices: Integrating dissemination theory with critical theories of power and justice. American Journal of Community Psychology 40(3-4), 272-289.

Selwyn, N. (2008). "Not necessarily a bad thing...": A study of online plagiarism amongst undergraduate students. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education 33(5), 465-479.

Sidanius, J., Haley, H., Molina, L. & Pratto, F. (2007). Vladimir's choice and the distribution of social resources. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations 10(2), 257-265.

Tangenberg, K.M. (2005). Faith-based human services initiatives: Considerations for social work practice and theory. Social Work 50(3), 197-206.

Vaske, J.J., Carothers, P., Donnelly, M.P. & Baird, B. (2000). Recreation conflict among skiers and snowboarders. Leisure Sciences 22(4), 297-313.

Voelklein, C. & Howarth, C. (2005). A review of controversies about social representations theory: A British debate. Culture & Psychology 11(4), 431-454.

Waghid, Y. (2009). Patriotism and democratic citizenship education in South Africa: On the (im)possibility of reconciliation and nation building. Educational Philosophy & Theory 41(4),. 399-409.

Williams, S.J. (2003). Beyond meaning, discourse, and the empirical world: Critical realist reflections on health. Social Theory & health 1, 42-71.

Yip, K. (2004). The empowerment model: A critical reflectin of empowerment in Chinese culture. Social Work, 49(3), 479-487.