Table of contents

Community Psychology, Place, and Shared Wealth

A graduate-level pathway for understanding rural and urban communities and designing ethical wealth-building interventions

Read each section in order. Every title can be opened as a TheoryTrace document.

• Cover
• Copyright
• How to read this book
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Community Psychology as a Science of People-in-Context
• Chapter 2: Rural and Urban Society as Ecological Systems
• Chapter 3: Place, Identity, Belonging, and Attachment
• Chapter 4: Social Capital, Trust, and Collective Efficacy
• Chapter 5: Power, Inequality, and Structural Determinants
• Chapter 6: Rural Community Psychology
• Chapter 7: Urban Community Psychology
• Chapter 8: Comparing Rural and Urban Mental Health Ecologies
• Chapter 9: Culture, Norms, and Community Meaning Systems
• Chapter 10: Community Needs, Assets, and Capabilities
• Chapter 11: Participatory Research and Community-Based Methods
• Chapter 12: Measuring Community Well-Being and Wealth
• Chapter 13: The Psychology of Poverty, Scarcity, and Economic Agency
• Chapter 14: Entrepreneurship, Livelihoods, and Local Economic Behavior
• Chapter 15: Institutions, Governance, and Civic Capacity
• Chapter 16: Designing Community Wealth-Building Interventions
• Chapter 17: Rural Wealth Creation Strategies
• Chapter 18: Urban Wealth Creation Strategies
• Chapter 19: Bridging Rural–Urban Interdependence
• Chapter 20: Conflict, Polarization, and Community Dialogue
• Chapter 21: Technology, Digital Inclusion, and Platform Economies
• Chapter 22: Program Evaluation and Systems Change
• Chapter 23: Ethics, Power Sharing, and Avoiding Extractive Development
• Chapter 24: Building an Integrated Rural–Urban Community Wealth Plan
• Conclusion