Community Development (CD) is a broad term applied to the practices and academic disciplines of civic leaders‚ activists‚ involved citizens and professionals to improve various aspects of local communities. Community development seeks to empower individuals and groups of people by providing them with the skills they need to effect change in their own communities. These skills are often created through the formation of large social groups working for a common agenda. Community developers must understand
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Community When I hear community I think of a collective group of individuals who share common values‚ this can be through living in close proximity or through social interactions and interests such as sporting groups. Community is about a sense of belonging for all involved‚ and generally includes some sort of social order. Community can be perceived by individuals in many ways and as a result there is no clear definition or meaning as such. Community in the past has been concerned with the division
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Re examining the sociological theory of gesellschaft‚ one must remember that conceptually Tonnies defined gesellschaft society as characterized by formal institutions bound by impersonal relationships. Specifically‚ the boundaries of gesellschaft become clear when examining how a community reacts to this impersonal relationship. In other words‚one must ask to what degree are people willing to sacrifice the affectionate familial relationships of gemeinschaft for the greater good found in gesellschaft
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"Community development is a structured intervention that gives communities greater control over the conditions that affect their lives. This does not solve all the problems faced by a local community‚ but it does build up confidence to tackle such problems as effectively as any local action can. Community development works at the level of local groups and organisations rather than with individuals or families. The range of local groups and organisations representing communities at local level
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A written proposal outlining a project based on community development principles to assess and address health inequalities within a particular community. Health inequalities are likely to affect different population groups in a variety of ways. Certain groups of people and particular factors are linked to an increased risk of experiencing health problems. Commentators such as McKeown (1979) have made the case that medicine has a small impact as a determinant of health. Others have also argued
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Biological‚ psychological‚ and sociological theories of crime all seek to determine why individuals commit crime. Biological theorists link crime to physical and/or mental traits of an individual. Psychological theorists link crime to influences of individual and family factors‚ such as events that take place during childhood that have an impact on an individual during adulthood. Sociological theorists link crime to an individual’s social environment‚ such as family and economic status
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Sociological theories and religion SOC/101 Kathleen Marker July 9‚ 2012 Sociological theories and religion Many question religion and the effect it could have over a person or a group. Religion is a very powerful and influential force in human society. Some think that religion is just someone’s imagination or something fictional. Religion plays a major part in the way people and their families operate. What religious background a
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Sociological Theories and Education Patricia L. Johnson SOC 101 Instructor Morrison September 26‚ 2011 Sociological Theories and Education In the world there are many types of scientific pursuits that try and make sense of all the different things that happen to people and how it affects them‚ sociology is but one of them. Merriam-Webster defines sociology as “the science of society‚ social institutions‚ and social relationships; specifically: the systematic study of the development‚ structure
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and its structures‚ as well as its problems. Sociological imagination is a term created by C. Wright Mills in order to more accurately describe the type of insight that sociology brings. Mills defined the term as the application of imaginative thought to both ask and answer sociological questions by envisioning his values‚ individual choices‚ personality and core beliefs as if by an outsider (Mills‚ 1959). The following essay will explore sociological imagination using the biography of the author
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Sociological theories can be divided into two categories‚ macro-sociological and micro-sociological theories‚ otherwise known as structural and action theories‚ respectively. As sociological theories‚ they both aim to explain the society we live in‚ but differ in where they choose to focus their explanation‚ with macro-sociological theories observing society as shaping the individuals that live in it‚ and micro-sociological theories observing individuals as shaping the society they live in. Structural
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