Community lesson 1

Community lesson 1

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  COMMUNITY - A GROUPOF PEOPLE WHO LIVES IN A LARGE AREA WITH COMMON INTEREST SUCH AS RELIGIONS VALUES OR IDENTITY
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  MURPHY AND CUNNINGHAM •Thereare 3 interacting processes inside the community that are inseparable
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  •An underlying webof human relationship called social fabric •A unique community power structure •A set of resource flows that constitute a local economy
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  THE NATURE OF COMMUNITY •A community is a sociological construct • A community has a fuzzy bounderies • A community can exist within a larger community • A community may move
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  THE 6 DIMENSIONSOF COMMUNITY • Technological • Economic • Political • Institutional • Aesthetic value • Beliefs conceptual
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  TECHNOLOGICAL “The technological dimensionof community is its capital, its tools and skills, and ways of dealing with the physical environment. It is the interface between humanity and nature.”
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  ECONOMIC “Humans use tobe productive, use to consumes and distribute goods and commodities to build a better community. “
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  POLITICAL “The political dimensionof community is its various ways and means of allocating power, influence and decision making.”
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  INSTITUTIONAL “The social orinstitutional dimension of community is composed of the ways people act, interact between each other, react, and expect each other to act and interact. It includes such institutions as marriage or friendship, roles such as mother or police officer, status or class, and other patterns of human behavior.”
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  AESTHETIC VALUE “The aesthetic-valuedimension of community is the structure of ideas, sometimes paradoxical, inconsistent, or contradictory, that people have about good and bad, about beautiful and ugly, and about right and wrong, which are the justifications that people cite to explain their actions.”
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  BELIEFS CONCEPTUAL “The belief-conceptualdimension of community is another structure of ideas, also sometimes contradictory, that people have about the nature of the universe, the world around them, their role in it, cause and effect, and the nature of time, matter, and behavior.”
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  THE FOUR APPROACHES IN APPLYINGTHE TERM COMMUNITY
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  SOCIOLOGIST AND GEOGRAPHERS •Concerned about the social organizations into small groups such as neighborhoods small towns or other spatially bounded localities
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  THOSE WORKING INCULTURAL STUDIES AND ANTHROPOLOGY • Concerned with the belongingness disregarding the identity in different people or culture
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  THOSE WORKING INSOCIAL MOVEMENT • Considers community as a form of political mobilization inspired by radical democracy that prompts communities of action to oppose social injustice
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  THOSE PEOPLE CONCERNEDABOUT THE INFLUENCE OF GLOBALIZATION • Consider the development of a community based on the rise of a global society.