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This document defines community and discusses community development. It outlines that a community is a social system composed of people living in some spatial relationship who share common facilities, identity, and communication networks. Community development aims to initiate and sustain community action in response to problems identified by community members. The document also discusses the characteristics, elements, roots, strengths, weaknesses, and potential of community development.

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Community Development

This document defines community and discusses community development. It outlines that a community is a social system composed of people living in some spatial relationship who share common facilities, identity, and communication networks. Community development aims to initiate and sustain community action in response to problems identified by community members. The document also discusses the characteristics, elements, roots, strengths, weaknesses, and potential of community development.

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COMMUNITY

DEVELOPMENT
SP20-BPY SECTION A & B
Course: Introduction to Development Studies
22th June,2020
Community Definition
 Community is a master system encompassing social forms
and cultural behaviors
 Community is a social system composed of people living in
some spatial relationship to one another, who share common
facilities and services, develop a common psychological
identification with the locality symbol.
 And together frame a common communication network.
 A community may be organized along residential boundaries,
a functional lineament need not demand exclusive territorial
primacy.
Contd … Community Definition
 A community is also recognized as social unit, such as a group
or association based on common needs, interest, values and
function.
 Then, a community expands, in addition to territorial
definition, such essential constituents as a common bond,
membership in a group, the sharing of common interests and
an identity, together with an acknowledgement of the rights
and responsibilities of other community members.
The Nature of Social Change
 There are no entirely stable, self-sufficient, enclosed societies,
for all are undergoing some degree of change.
 Social change has emphasized the individual’s need for
achievement, and its relationship to change in different
cultures.
 The concept of accommodation helps to break down the
unreal split which is sometimes imagined between traditional
and modern spheres of action.
 Tradition is simply what people do, and all societies of the
world are faced with conflicting values.
Process
 Community development has gained universal recognition in
the last three decades as a substantial force for inducing
planned change.
 Rapid technological advances have resulted in a series of
inescapable social realities, and community development can
help adapt to these new realities.
 Community development provides the possibility of altering
by democratic means, at times antihuman directions of
technology, urbanization towards more human ends.
Contd ….
 In ideal community development, all members of a given
community may express their voice of displeasure.
 Members may learn the dynamics of change so that they may
effect changes desired by the community.
 It must be emphasized that , while community development is a
dynamic force in effecting social change, it will mot magically
transmute our present into a Utopian future (Ideal society).
 Community organization endeavored to provide a systematic
approach to the management and direction at the community
level.
Social development Community development

 Social development are  Community development is to


initiative and adaptive in initiate, give direction to and sustain
nature, practitioners of community action.
economic, and work in
planning economic programs  Community action is initiated in
especially in terms of response to real problems, such as
predicting the logical social perceived by the community
consequences. members, about which there is
genuine concern.

 Social development must also  Ideally theses problems are


assist people in adjusting to the systematically analyzed so that
social consequences of realizable goals may be elucidated
programs of change. with the aid of the appropriate
strategies for attaining them.
Significant characteristics of Community
Development

I. Democratic Participation (establishing a new power base at


the community level and can help to challenge the biased
democratic process)
II. Context of Community Development (focused on the
organizational and super-organizational level)

III. Community Development constitutes of:


a. Process,
b. Method,
c. Program and
d. Movement
The Elements of the Community Development

I. As a Unit of Action

II. Local Initiatives and Leadership

III. Use of local and outside resources

IV. Participation

V. Organized Comprehensive Approach

VI. Democratic Accomplishment


The Roots of Community Development

I. Education

II. Social Work


Strength and Weaknesses
Strength Weaknesses

 Community development  The most severe criticisms


agents to subscribe to of community development
gradual change. is that it is a subtle tool of
 It can take generations to those in power, who use it to
change a people’s value maintain their vested
system, especially so in the interests
less developed, more
traditional context  This is based on the
 And emphasis on consensus observation that community
and citizen participation has had little influence on
further delays task-oriented the socio-economic structure
structural changes.
Potential
 A holistic process-program view towards
community development holds the potential of
becoming a powerful force in effecting
psychological and socio-economic change.
Summary and Conclusion
 Community development is not, as is sometimes suggested, a
new phenomenon that started in the 1650’s.

 It is an outgrowth of earlier experiments and concepts in


education and social work, both of which have much
influenced contemporary thought and practice.
Bibliography
 Arthur, V., 1970, Community development – Whither bound?
Community Development Journal, 5, 85. Hillery, G., 1955.
Definitions of community: Areas of agreement.
 Rural Sociology. 20, 111-123.
 Sanders, V., T., I. 1958. Theories of community development.
Rural Sociology. 23, 1-12.
 United Nations. 1954, Methods and techniques of community
development in the United Kingdom development and trust
territories. New York.
 United Nations, 1956, Special study on social conditions in
non-selfgoverning territories. New York.

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