CESP(review)

• A group of people who share something in common

  Community
• Community derives from the latin word "Communis" which means

  Common or shared
• 2 characterictics

  1.Location

  2.Social Identification
• Basic of community

  Self help

  Community ownership

  Community participation

  inclusion
• Process of change and development in communities over-time.

  includes all forms of living organism

  Community Dynamics
• increases the understanding, engagement of communites in the design and delivery of local services

  Activity which motivates people to help other people

  Community Action
• Importance of community Action

  Building community and social capacity

  Community resilience

  Prevention

  Maintaining and creating wealth
• helping the community to share knowledge, skills and ideas.

  Building community and social capacity
• helping the community to support itself

  Community Resilience
• focus on early access to services or support engagement in design cross sector collaboration and partnership.

  Prevention
• helping people to employment or develop community enterprise

  Maintaining and creating wealth
• Is wider, there can be more than one community

  Society
• smaller than society

  Community
• Types of Community

  Urban Area

  rural area

  Global Community

  Sectoral

  Social Space
• Location with high population

  -Cities and towns, main area of employment, have most human built structure

  Urban Area
• Open swath of land that has few homes or other buildings, and not very many people

  A countryside is a geographic area that is located outside towns and cities

  Rural Area
• The people or nations of the world, considered as being closely connected by modern telecommunications and as being economically, socially, and politically interdependent

  Global Community
• Community based organizations institution and initiatives, as opposed to those operated by state government, national or international groups, or large corporations

  Sectoral
• various forms of spaces used by community in conducting social interaction.

  these spaces should given more attention since they serve as catalyst in the implementation of good social cohesion in community.

  Social Space
• Five common features of Communities

  Interest

  Action

  Place

  Practice

  Circumstance
• communities of people who share the same interest or passion.

  interest
• Communities of people trying to bring about change

  Action
• Communities of people brought together by geographic boundaries

  Place
• communication of people in the same profession or undertake the same activities.

  Practice
• communities of people brought together by external events/situations

  Circumstance
• Acts much like living entity that takes on life

  living within the imagination of its members, a community also embodies a perspective, identity, and stand much like a social movement.

  The community as a movement
• The community as a movement

  Social Movement

  Community movement
• Organized effort by significant number of people to change or (resist change) some major aspects of society

  the term was originally applied to political forces opposing the status quo

  Social Movement
• bound by not just one issue but on plethora of compromise that are commonly accepted continually reinforced.

  may embody several social movements within it's ecosystem.

  Community movement
• Community as movement is formed through:

  to improve and garner support, communities try to garner support from other individuals or groups which are aligned with their world view.

  Advocacies
• Community as movement through:

  a collaboration of groups and individuals from various walks of life which find commonalities and avenues for cooperation and partnership forming linkages that are important for mobilization and value creation.

  Networking
• stands on the foundation of advocacies and networking..

  Community hopes to address issues of the status quo through the combined efforts of actors.

  Social Action
• occupation will be presented are a selection of those which may interest social sciences students and graduates from the school of social policy, sociology and social research.


  Social science and careers
• provide information advice and guidance on a range topic depending on the role these topics may include housing, employment, welfare, education, and finance law.

  Advice worker
• delivers public services according to goverment policies.

  Civil Service Career
• how individuals seek personal development without the help of other independent

  self help
• individuals has a sense of commitment accountability

  community ownership
• active member by taking part manage and organization development

  community participation
• integral in the holding of the collective into a whole highlight of this impact are the two goals

  -access

  -equality

  inclusion