Community Perspectives Flashcards
A community is a congregation of people unified by geography, shared interests, values, experiences, and traditions
Social Science Perspective
The course of embracing or adapting a community’s behavior patterns
Socialization
A community is a setting for intervention, target for change, a resource, and an agent.
Community-Based Perspective
Community institutions implement interventions (i.e., in schools, churches, work, areas, and community organizations)
Community-Based Perspective: Setting for intervention
A community can define a goal of creating a healthy environment with policies, institutions, and services (small-scale)
Community-Based Perspective: Target for Change
A community is used to promote good materials, community ownership, and participation
Community-Based: As a Resource
A community respects the adaptive, supportive, and developmental capacity of communities
Community-Based Perspective: As an Agent
A congregation of species that occur together in time and space and have a high probability of interaction
Ecological Perspective
Individuals are impacted by their social networks
A study that looks at individuals’ behavior in a social context
Ecological Perspective: Social Ecology
A community is comprised of different individuals within different sectors
Sectoral Perspective
A perspective refers to groups, organizations, and networks formed by individuals voluntarily (outside of businesses and gov’t)
Civil Society Perspective
A type of perspective that refers to how communities stem from shared institutions wherein citizens have defined roles`
Institutional Perspective
A type of perspective that defines community as participating citizens of a nation that takes part in political activities.
Civil Perspective
A type of perspective that defines community as a formation of people based on shared characteristics such as goals, intrigues, and hobbies.
Interest-based Perspective
A type of perspective that defines community as a place where organizations with differing objectives and goals can be formed.
The people within these organizations are designated specific roles to perform.
Organizational Perspective
