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Required
texts:
Readings
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week
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topic(s) |
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Introduction,
planning, homelessness |
Wagner,
Chp 1 (1 - 20), Eigner |
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Homelessness:
work, family, control |
Wagner,
Chps 2 - 5 (21 - 117) |
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The
homeless counterculture |
Wagner,
Chps 6 - 8 (119 - 87) |
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Bureaucracy,
community models |
Perrow |
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hunger
project, social capital |
Haven
from Hunger materials, Putnam,
Chp 1 |
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community
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Adams
and Nelson, Putnam, Chps 3 & 4 |
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community |
Putnam,
Chps 6, 7, 15 & 16
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community |
Putnam,
Chps 21 & 22 |
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community |
Putnam,
Chps 23 - 24 |
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Presentations |
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11
(3/14 - 3/18)
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final
exam week |
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Week 1
Course planning, homelessness
- David Wagner.
1993. Checkerboard Square: Culture and Resistance in a Homeless
Community. Boulder, CO: Westview Press (chp 1, pp 1-20).
- Lars Eighner.
2004. On dumpster diving. Pp 477-85 in Lieberman and
Lester (eds) Social Work Practice with a Difference.
Boston: McGraw-Hill.
Week 2
Homelessness: work, family, control
- David Wagner.
1993. Checkerboard Square: Culture and Resistance in a Homeless
Community. Boulder, CO: Westview Press (chps 2 - 5, pp 21
- 117).
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of page
Week 3
A homless counterculture
- David Wagner.
1993. Checkerboard Square: Culture and Resistance in a Homeless
Community. Boulder, CO: Westview Press (chps 6 - 8, pp 119
- 187)
Week 4
Bureaucracy
- Charles
Perrow. 1986. Complex Organizations: A Critical Essay.
New York: McGraw-Hill (chapter 1, 'Why
Bureaucracy?' pp 1 - 48). Available
on electronic reserve (or you can copy it in the library)
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of page
Week 5
Hunger project, social capital
- Robert
Putnam. 2000. Bowling Alone. New York: Simon and Schuster
(chp 1, pp 15 - 28).
- I'll have
put together materials on the Haven from Hunger project for
you to read.
Week 6
Community model, community dynamics
- Kristine
Nelson and Paul Adams. 1995. Introduction. Pp 1 - 11 in
Nelson and Adams (eds) Reinventing Human Services: Community-
and Family-Centered Practice. New York: Aldine de Gruyter.
- Robert
Putnam. 2000. Bowling Alone. New York: Simon and Schuster
(chps 3 & 4, pp 48 - 79)
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of page
Week 7
Social capital, social change
- Robert
Putnam. 2000. Bowling Alone. New York: Simon and Schuster
(chps 6 & 7, pp 93 - 133; chp 15, pp 277 - 84. & 16,
pp 277 - 95)
Week
8 Economy, democracy, and social capital's
dark side
- Robert
Putnam. 2000. Bowling Alone. New York: Simon and Schuster
(chp 16, pp 287 - 95; chps 21 & 22, pp 336 - 63).
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Week 9
future of social capital
- Robert
Putnam. 2000. Bowling Alone. New York: Simon and Schuster
(chps 21& 22, pp 367 - 414).
Week 10
Hunger project presentations
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