Community Engagement Lesson 2

Question 1

interactions or human behaviors that have meaning and expectations between its members.
— In understanding how a community operates and how it changed. It is necessary to learn a little bit about sociology, the science. The mobilizer is an applied scientist, a social scientist.

Answer 1

A community is a sociological construct?

Question 2

— The human interaction present may be seen as consisting only of relations among the residents living inside that village.
— If the residents interact with people outside the village, they may, for example, marry persons from other places and move or bring a spouse in to live with them. At any given time, those village residents may have sisters, brothers, cousins, parents, and relatives living elsewhere. The boundary of the community is no longer that precise.

Answer 2

A community has fuzzy boundaries

Question 3

— There may be communities within larger communities including districts, regions, ethnic groups, nations, and other boundaries. There may be marriages and other interactions that link the villages of a nation together.

Answer 3

A community can exist within a larger community

Question 4

— When technology is not based on local horticulture, the community residents may be physically mobile. They may be nomadic herders walking long distances with their cattle. They may be mobile fishing groups who move from time to time to where the fish are available. They may be hunters who move to follow the game.

Answer 4

A community may move

Question 5

A community can be considered like an organism

Answer 5

because it can function even if people come and go. It transcends the individual persons that make it up.

Question 6

is about the distribution of power at the local community level. But what is power?

Answer 6

Community power structure

Question 7

in a community is the capacity to influence the decision making and distribution processes; the idea of power includes determining the structures that impact on local communities and also linkages that form collaborative works

Answer 7

Power

Question 8

Basis of Local Community Power

Answer 8

1. Connections
2. Power in Number
3. Rewards
4. Personal Traits/Expertise
5. Legitimate Power
6. Information
7. Coercion