Catégories : Tous - unity - development - weaknesses - interaction

par Charis Fisher Il y a 15 années

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Community

Communities are composed of groups of people who share commonalities such as location, interests, or social attributes. They engage in social interactions and collective actions, often driven by a sense of unity and shared goals.

Community

Basic Needs of a community

Sense of Place

Safety

Employment

Shelter

Food

Social Capital

Networks are beneficial therefore they have worth. This is a communities social fabric.

Linkage

Relations with environment or institutions

Bridging

Relations with other communities

Bonding

Relations within community

Culture of silence

With a contemporary community people can end up feeling less supported by the community.

Therefore ppl feel as though they have little control in their environment; thus a low self image and hopelessness arises.

Culture of silence is learned hopelessness.

Which turns into self-destructive behavior.

Prevention

Comprehensible predictable managable environments
Increase self image through self understanding

Community

General Definition:

-Demographic group

-Social interaction

-Common connection

-Location

-Commonalities (race/religion)

-place

-People who act together

Current Definition:

-Geographic community (location)

-Funcation/ Attribute (essential factor)

-Interest (common concern)

ALL OVERLAP

Purpose of a community

Mutual Support

To bridge between families and beureaucratic services (EX. hospitals and sick children communities give support groups to parent)

Social Participation

To create opportunity for co-operative activities

Social Control

To create conformity to group norms

Socialization

To transmit knowledge, values, and behaviour patterns

Production, Distribution, Consumption

To Meet supply and demand of basic need

Comtemporary community

Our current society is:

-Highly mobile they move frequently

-Immigrants have less community ties

-Couples interact more than single ppl

-young ppl interact less than elderly ppl

-Community layout effects communication (space and poarches foster community)

Our contemporary society has less "Social Capital" and therefore less volunteers. However we are in need of more commmunity presence as families befom more fractred due to our fast paced living.

Commute
Career driven
Highly mobile

Unity

Health

-Less likely to commit suicide

-Unity decreases colds heart attacks stroke cancer depression

-When individuals are isolated physical health problems develop

Less Crime
Health benefits

Types of communities

Boom Towns

Rapid development of resources: shift from pre-industrial to industrial.

Crime, depersonalization, beauracratic, health depleats.

Industrial (Gesellschaft)

Contracts, legal or rational notion, individualistic

Pre industrial (Gemeinschaft)

Description:

Intimate, interacting, reciprocal relationships

Definition

Geographic
Function

Interest

Strengths

Identity
Community Centre
Common need or enemy
Good transportation
Balanced Land use
Active Voluntary Organizations

Weaknesses

Lack of boundaries
Defensible Space
Lack of local decision
Lack of services
Fragmentation
High Mobility
Stigma
Lack of collective history

Fundamentals

Community development is fundamentally about identifying needs and finding organizations to meet those needs.

The process is dependent on collective problem solving, self help and empowerment.

Informal planning
Formally creating an organization
Democratic
Social process

Assets and attributes

community development
Bottom Up
Top down

Social Service worker

7 Levels of Practice
systems

Change social values/policies to influence sectors

Sectors

combinging sectors (networks)

program

designing/creating a program

organization

fundraising for change

family

Marriage counselling

community

community watch

individual

1-on-1

Individual impacts system or system impacts individual
Service roles

differs w. context (policies/practice)

consultant

frontline

Manager

Peer support

Sector

Specific area of SSW

Cross section Work

Education

Addiction

Child welfare

Myths
Development is all the same in all communities
Solutions are easy to find and implement
Outcomes are measurable
All Speak with one voice
Communities are democratic
Services are well funded
Credentials and a big heart
Community work is easy

Intergrated

No systemic barriers move seamlessly

Coordinated

Sectors work towards provision together