Soc Dev: TRENDS, ISSUES, AND CHALLENGES WITHIN THE HUMAN ECOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK Flashcards
“As if “villagers” could not develop themselves… this ________ of the deprived population… is the primary reason why development activities don’t
take root in the life of the community.” Majid Rahnema Iran (1984) in Smillie, 2001
INFANTILIZATION
CHE HUMAN ECOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK: INNER CIRCLE
HUMAN SYSTEMS: Individual, Family, Community
PROVIDES: Stewardship
ENVIRONMENT: Biological, Physical, social, Cultural, Political, Economic technological
PROVIDES: Provision
CHE HUMAN ECOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK: OUTER CIRCLE
FOOD AND NUTRITION SECURITY
DEVELOPED HUMAN POTENTIALS
EMPOWERED ORGANIZATIONS AND INSTITUTIONS
ENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY
Dyball & Newell 2015 Understanding
Human Ecology Figure 7.5
HUMAN ECOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK: INNER CIRCLE
STATE OF COMMUNITY:
HEALTH EFFECTS
SOCIAL EFFECTS
ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS
CO-EFFECTS
Dyball & Newell 2015 Understanding
Human Ecology Figure 7.5
HUMAN ECOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK: OUTER CIRCLE
STATE OF HUMAN HEALTH & WELLBEING
STATE OF CULTURAL PARADIGMS
STATE OF ECOSYSTEM
COMMON SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT ISSUES
- Poverty
- Social exclusion and injustice
- Apathy / non-participation of people
- Sustainability issues
a general state of DEPRIVATION which has more to do with ENTITLEMENT and CAPACITY than merely income or nutritional level (Sen, 2000)
POVERTY
FILIPINO CYCLE OF POVERTY AND SOCIAL FAILURE (After Carkhuff 1972 in Ortigas 2000)
INNER CIRCLE (clockwise)
Socioeconomic Deprivation
Frustration
Assertion
Aggression
Explosion
FILIPINO CYCLE OF POVERTY AND SOCIAL FAILURE (After Carkhuff 1972 in Ortigas 2000)
OUTER FACTORS
- Official Inaction (Assertion)
- Repression by Power Structures (between aggression and explosion)
- Repression by Power Structures (explosion)
addresses the SYMPTOM/S without looking into conditions that promotes or increases poverty
POVERTY ALLEVIATION
addresses the ROOT CAUSES or conditions and develop sustainable means to address poverty
(Source: Habito, C., 2007)
POVERTY REDUCTION
A state in which individuals are unable to participate fully in economic, social, political and cultural life as well as the process leading to and sustaining such a state
Key aspects are LACK of PARTICIPATION in political
processes, civic life and the labour market
SOCIAL EXCLUSION
WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED?
Socially Excluded WOMEN: Violence against women, gender discrimination, triple burden
Social Excluded CHILDREN: Malnutrition, child mortality, lack of access to education
Social Excluded URBAN POOR / RURAL POOR: Lack of access to basic services, inadequate resources
Socially Excluded INDIGENOUS PEOPLE: Ancestral land issues, discrimination, culture being wiped out
(Source, Hollsteiner, 2000)
Magna Carta of the Poor: Under RA ____, Section ____
RA 11291, Section 3a
MAGNA CARTA OF THE POOR
Who are the marginalized?
Farmer-peasants
Fisherfolk
Workers in the formal sector including migrant
workers
Workers in the informal sector
Indigenous people and cultural communities
Women
PWDs
Senior citizens
Victims of calamities/natural and human-induced
disasters
Youth
Students
Children
Urban poor
“A human group that feels permanently excluded from the bare necessities of existence, preyed on by the market and by modernity, will finally turn upon its predators, resorting to varied forms of treatment ranging from DELINQUENCY to terrorist FANATICISM”
DE RIVERO 2001
