Community Organizing Flashcards
______-defined as an organization of families and individuals, settled in a fairly compact and continuous geographical area, with significant element of common life
Community
Community Characteristics
a. Common set of ______
These are defined as a concept that has various shades of meaning. It hints what ought to be or at those which relate the ultimate ends, goals and purposes of social action
Values
Community Characteristics
b. Normatively defined relation
_____ are defined as the accepted ways of behaving that govern a group life in all societies and at all times. These are “rules or standards of behavior shared by members of a social group and ideal patterns of behavior that most members of society consider to be correct and proper in particular situations
Norms
Community Characteristics
c. ___________
-Needing and depending upon each other. An important new level of understanding emerges from examining the prefix “inter” which refers to that which exists “between and among” discrete entities.
Interdependence
Community Characteristics
d. ________
-Everybody wants to feel that he or she is liked and accepted by
others. We get our greatest joys through association with others
who make us feel that we have unity.
Recognition of belongings
Community Characteristics
e. _______
-is the way in which a large group of people living together is divided into classes. It is this system that make people differ from each other by the place that they occupy in a historically determined system of social production, by their relation to the means of production, role in social organization, dimensions of the shared social wealth
System of stratification
Community Characteristics
f. _______
-area occupied by closely-knit varies according to the term of reference used.
Locality
It is a development strategy for building people’s capabilities towards self-determinants and self-reliance.
Community Organizing
3 Major component of Community Organizing
- Training and education
- Organization building
- Mobilization
Tasks and Functions of a Community Organizer
- As a _________
-enhance individual and group strengths and minimizes weakness and conflicts
-Heightens group unity
-Assist individuals and groups to respond to common interests
facilitator
Tasks and Functions of a Community Organizer
- As a ________
-assess training needs
-plans and conducts educational program to enhance capabilities
-assists leaders in training others
-Engages in praxis (action reflection-action) through continuous dialogue with people
Trainer
Tasks and Functions of a Community Organizer
- As an ________
-analyses and articulate critical issues
-assists others to reflect upon other issues
-Evokes and provokes meaningful discussions
advocate
Tasks and Functions of a Community Organizer
- As a ________
-Conducts social analysis
-Engages in participatory technology development
researcher
Tasks and Functions of a Community Organizer
- As a ________
-Conducts analysis of area resources and potentials
-Assist local groups in planning for their common good
-Systematizes group actions
planner
Tasks and Functions of a Community Organizer
- As a ________
-Initial debates and actions regarding critical problems
-Monitors and nurtures growth of individuals and groups
catalyst
Tasks and Functions of a Community Organizer (6)
- As a facilitator
- As a Trainer
- As an advocate
- As a researcher
- As a planner
- As a catalyst
Community Organization: Values, Goals and Principles
I. Values of Community Organization (3)
- Human Rights
- Social Justice
- Social Responsibility
II. Goals of Community Organizing
1. _______
-aims at achieving effective power for the people.
-people learn to overcome powerlessness and develop their
capacity to maximize control over their situation and start to place the future in their own hands
Peoples’ Empowerment
II. Goals of Community Organizing
2. Building Relative Permanent _____
-establish and sustain relatively permanent organizational
structures which best serve the needs and aspirations of the
people
Structures
II. Goals of Community Organizing
3. _________
-seeks to create a conducive environment for the development of human creativity and solidarity
Building Alliances
II. Goals of Community Organizing
4. __________
-regard themselves as financially developed or stable, satisfied and happy with their living conditions, healthy relationships with organizations and people, as well as sustainable environments
for health and well-being
Improved quality of life/ standard of living
II. Goals of Community Organizing
5. _______
-freedom felt by the whole population and community at large (elections, opinion-sharing, organizations)
Popular Democracy
II. Goals of Community Organizing
6. __________
-nationally aligned positive development of a society which regards the importance of values and morals, use of science and technology, spirituality and peace and order
National Social Transformation
III. Principles of Community Organizing (4)
- Peoples’ Participation
- Self-Determination
- Experiential Learning
- Self-reliance
IV. Organizing Approaches
1. _________ Approach
-revolves around issues or problems
2. ________ approach
-Healthcare, Income Generating Projects, Enterprise development, cooperative
3. __________ approach
-organized by church
Issue-based
Socio-economic based
Church-Faith-based
