WWC - Revision Week 12

The idea of 'community' underwent a major reformulation as a result of what?

• Facebook

• World War 1

• The Industrial Revolution

• The Iron Age

Gemeinshaft refers to:

• structures and relationships are implied by the concept of community? or

• structures and relationships of mass society?

There are two primary methods of approaching community development. They are:

• Needs-Based Community Development and Asset-Based Community Development

• Gesellschaft und Gemeinschaft

• Urban & Suburban

• Obligations & Culture

The Aspen Institute (1996) identifies [HOW MANY?] outcomes of community capacity building:

• 2

• 4

• 6

• 8

What is ABCD approach?

• Assets Based Community Driven

• A Biased Corporate Derivation

• Alternate Bi-linear Capitalist Debt

• Antediluvian Building Centralised Direction

to succeed in increasing community capacity, one might focus on building:

• in a continuous process

• foster the pride and appropriate local leadership

• allow communities, through their members, to take responsibility for their own development

• all of the above

Community partnership - is defined as:

• an informal, winner takes all break dancing competition

• a cross-sector alliance in which various organisations, governments of all levels and community groups agree to work together to provide a program, service or resource that will help support the community

• the act of supporting a cause or issue to achieve a desired result. It is action directed at changing policies, positions or programmes

• the level of engagement and trust an individual has with others in their community and the community as a whole.

Social Capital Theory is:

• interchangeable with the concept of 'anomie'

• a framework for building theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability

• defined as those resources inherent in social relations which facilitate collective action

• All of the above

What is Social Policy (according to Gil)?

• 'regulation of intrasocietal relations and the shaping of the quality of life'

• 'the unwillingness to lend money in certain, primarily minority communities'

What do we mean by ethics?

• Ethics fundamentally challenges traditional approaches to power relationships in working with individuals, families and

  communities.

• Ethics is a code of thinking and behavior governed by a combination of personal, moral, legal, and social standards of what is right.