Reviews the past five years of community ties research. Examines recent research for evidence of progress in resolving important conceptual issues, and discusses problems that still persist despite previous cautions. (RAE)

Utilising Nakata's (2007) description of the "cultural interface", two Indigenous researchers and one non-Indigenous researcher examine their development of Indigenous research in and with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities conducted from within an institution of higher education. The authors reflect on their experiences in…

Self-help initiatives stand as a classic context for organizational studies in community psychology. Behavior setting theory stands as a classic conception of organizations and the environment. This study explores both, applying behavior setting theory to consumer-run organizations (CROs). Analysis of multiple data sets from all CROs in Kansas…

Community historians often limit their efforts to periods of written records; this, despite the fact that many communities have witnessed some form of prehistoric human occupation. Prehistory is the study of human events before the advent of written accounts. The community historian interested in prehistory, which has as its main focus material…

Oral history, a branch of historical research, is defined as a method of gathering and preserving historical information in the spoken form and preserving these spoken words with modern technology. This booklet chronicles the development of oral history and describes the role of the Onondaga County (New York) Public Library's Betts Branch as…

The University of Louisville secured a grant through the University of Kentucky as the state agency for Administration of Title I of the Higher Education Act of 1966 in Kentucky to fund a series of young adult workshops sponsored by the Urban Studies Center and University College in cooperation with the Louisville Area Council of Churches and the…

Data from 19 Minnesota communities show that daily newspaper readership is lower, and television viewing higher, in communities with a weekly rather than a daily newspaper; that the type of medium covering a community is related to media preferences; and that community differences are more important to readership patterns than is educational…

Four geographic concepts can be used for an in-depth study of the community: spatial tradition, area studies tradition, man-land tradition, and earth-science tradition. (Author/JR)

This research analyses the effects of situational factors, along with environmental quality (EQ) attitudes, in understanding why some people become involved in pollution-abating activities. Findings indicate that closeness to the effects of polluting behavior stimulate more powerful concern and action than closeness to the source of polluted…

Paper presented before the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, August 30, 1970, Washington, D.C. (FF)

The creation of a Community Social Profile as a joint effort between high school students and the community can help students to understand a community's economic, political, historical, and geographical dimensions. (CJ)

Utopolis, an imaginary community, was created by 48 fourth, fifth, and sixth grade students. Given only geographical boundaries, the group created the town complete with its many complex and interrelated problems. (NQ)

This paper presents a discontinuous analysis of organizational development and the part played by administrative capacity considered as a summation of individual attributes. Based on 20 years' study of one kibbutz, it is suggested that there are qualitatively different levels of demand for administrative capacity. (Author/MLF)