week 9

Question 1

whats belonging

Answer 1

• As a means of connectedness to other people, ancestors, culture and place
• As contributing to others (doing for others)

Question 2

whats groups

Answer 2

• Humans are typically members of multiple groups at a time eg family’s, friends, neighbours, clubs
• Each group we belong to also participates in occupations within some setting or another
• All living organisms and their environments are interconnected and dynamic in nature

Question 3

common features of groups

Answer 3

• Respect
• Connectedness
• Belonging
• Mutual aid
• Care for others
• Altruism to both help and protect on another
• Create n independence and mutral aid

Question 4

whats communities

Answer 4

: bond among people with strong similar backgrounds and interests

• consist of groups of people who do things together and individual.
• Important roles of social groups is to balances the interests of the individual within the interests of the larger group. Eg ot Australia, WFOT

Question 5

evolution of community group

Answer 5

• Communities began historically as geographically and genetically defined groups of people who shared the occupations of survival, such as hunting, gathering and defence against enemies (Wilcock, 1998).
• Brain size is closely related to the development of language required through living in social groups
• Interactions of shared occupations requires language, and language fosters more shared occupations

Question 6

biological forces promoting group living

Answer 6

Ecological niche – environments to which a particular species can successfully adapt. Group living in occupational communities has been key to human evolution & survival. e.g. Eskimo; Kalahari bushmen
Competition – rivalry or struggle between or within species to secure the resources necessary for survival – humans use of language and survival occupations critical in the competition for food and shelter resources
Cooperation – allee effect – when species work together to ensure reproduction and survival of the species

Question 7

whats the game theory

Answer 7

to determine the mostlikely strategy to be used by players from a given set of rules and to find the best strategy.- Competing strategies creating strategies create balance that furthers the urvival of the population – evolutionary stable strategy.

Question 8

whats altruism

Answer 8

means the active donation of resources to one or more individuals at cost to the donor eg time, money skills

• For social systems to develop, requires long term group living where members; are able to recognise each other as individuals, recall the history of cooperation by each member
• Keep track of help given ad help received

Question 9

whats culture

Answer 9

• Beliefs and perceptions, values and norms, customs and behaviours that are shared by a group or society and are passed from one generation to the next through both formal and informal education (Taylor, 2017, p.99)
• Learned and shared patterns of perceiving and adapting to the world (Fitzgerald et al.,1997)
• A system of shared meanings and a dynamic process by which meanings are ascribed to commonly experienced phenomena and objects (Iwama, 2005. p.8)

Question 10

three elements of a culture

Answer 10

1. A lived element – the patterns, forms and structures of everyday life that forms a coherent whole. Eg. Conducting research of people living with disabilities
2. Documentary element – the way meaning and culture are framed and communicated in the media eg books and films
3. Ideal element–art and literature and elite creative work of the dominant culture eg conceptual models of practice, journal articles

Question 11

perspectives of examining culture ethic vs ernic

Answer 11

• Etic – culture is observed from an outsider perspective – assumes cultural characteristics are universal
• Emic – observed from an insiders perspective – assumes cultural characteristics are specific and distinctive to that culture

Question 12

mass society

Answer 12

communities that have deteriorated to the point where there is weak kinship, impersonal neighbourhoods, and a feeling by individuals that they are isolated and alienated

Question 13

occupational injustice

Answer 13

– where some groups are deprived of occupations, alienated from their true occupational selves or restricted and possibly exploited in their occupations

Question 14

social capital

Answer 14

set of informal values or norms shared among members of a group that permits cooperation among them
• – obligations, expectations and trustworthiness of structure
• – Information channels
• – Norms and effective sanctions
• – Viewed as antidote to the mass society

Question 15

social groups

Answer 15

• shared characteristic such as ags, gender, social class or religion

Question 16

society

Answer 16

set of systems that govern connections between these groups

Question 17

community

Answer 17

bond among people with strongly similar backgrounds and interests

Question 18

groups

Answer 18

Humans are typically members of multiple groups at a time
e.g. families, peer groups, neighbourhoods, clubs, organisations
• Each group we belong to also participates in occupations within some settings or another
• All living organisms and their environments are interconnected and dynamic in nature.

Question 19

whats two ways to measure a persons community

Answer 19

community integration questioaire

community integration measure

Question 20

whats the community integration questionnaire

Answer 20

Measure a persons level of home and community integration after traumatic brain injury
• Three subscales: Home integration, social integration, productivit

Question 21

whats the community integration measure

Answer 21

Aims to measure community integration from the perspective of people with ABI
• Perceived connections with the community in four dimensions (general assimilation, support, occupation, independent living)