As with many terms describing social class, working class is defined and used in many different ways.When used non-academically in the United States, for example, it often refers to a section of socie ...
The concept of urban renewal as a method for social reform emerged in England as a reaction to the increasingly cramped and unsanitary conditions of the urban poor in the rapidly industrializing citie ...
The word utopia was coined in Greek by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book Utopia, describing a fictional island society in the Atlantic Ocean. The word comes from the Greek: ο? ("not") and τ?πο? ...
The New Australia Co-operative Settlement Association, known in short as the New Australia Movement, was founded by William Lane in 1892. Lane was a prominent figure in the Australian labour movement ...
Even though the community reached a maximum population of about 300, it had a complex bureaucracy of 27 standing committees and 48 administrative sections.The manufacturing of silverware, the sole rem ...
The New Lanark cotton mills were founded in 1786 by David Dale in a brief partnership with Richard Arkwright. Dale was one of the self-made "Burgher Gentry" of Glasgow who, like most of this gentry, h ...
Robert Owen was born in Newtown, a small market town in Montgomeryshire, Mid Wales, in 1771. He was the sixth of seven children. His father, also named Robert Owen, had a small business as a saddler a ...
For Andrew Vincent "The word ‘socialism’ finds its root in the Latin sociare, which means to combine or to share. The related, more technical term in Roman and then medieval law was societas. This l ...
Breaking the cycle of poverty by providing technology education, access, and job training for individuals and families in low-income communities.IT training program Per Scholas offers a targeted range ...
In the Neolithic period, agriculture and other techniques facilitated larger populations than the very small communities of the Paleolithic, which probably led to the stronger, more coercive governmen ...
The idea of a community is not a new concept. On the telephone and in the online world, social interactions no longer have to be based on proximity; instead they can literally be with anyone anywhere. ...
The term Digital divide is used to describe a gap between those who have ready access to information and communication technology and the skills to make use of those technology and those who do not ha ...
Researchers have categorized two approaches to work force development, sector-based and place-based approaches. The sectoral advocate speaks for the demand side, emphasizing employer- or market-driven ...
A 1971 U.S. Department of Transportation publication summarized seminars where professional planners, public administrators, and citizens debated the idea of participatory planning. The U.S. Departmen ...
Community Participation (Participación Comununidad) is a progressive political party in Colombia. At the last legislative elections, 10 March 2002, the party won, as one of the many small parties, pa ...
