History and Philosophy of Community Studies

The article that follows originally appeared as Chapter 2 in Torry D. Dickinson’s Community and the World: Participating in Social Change. The article appears on the Community Studies Department Website with the permission of Nova Science publishers, Inc. With the exception of short passages for purposes of review or comment, it may not be reproduced without the permission of the publisher. We gratefully, acknowledge the generosity of the publisher in permitting us to reproduce this chapter for the benefit of our students and others interested in the Community Studies Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

William H. Friedland and Michael E. Rotkin