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SOC 531: Community Organization

SOC 531: Community Organization. What is a Community? essential and variable components. Community Is Essentially. place/space: bounded or bordered geographically, phsysically, materially, or socially socially constructed (Gottdiener) imaginary (Anderson)

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SOC 531: Community Organization

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  1. SOC 531: Community Organization What is a Community? essential and variable components

  2. Community Is Essentially • place/space: bounded or bordered geographically, phsysically, materially, or socially • socially constructed (Gottdiener) • imaginary (Anderson) • way of analyzing social group or society: i.e., a community study (Park and Burgess)

  3. Essentials (continued) • social action (Weber) and some degree of social organization (White: cats and nets) • people must participate in life of community (Burgess and Park) • people live and work in community (Hogan) • people engage in (Lynds) • getting a living - making a home • training the young - leisure • religious practice - community activities

  4. Community Essentials (sum) • These are the essential components of community • space/place bordered/bounded • social action/social organization • Everything else is variable

  5. Community Variables • types of places/spaces: 7th Ward, Muncie, North End, suburbs, central business districts, slums • types of people (cats): class, race, gender, age, marital status • types of social action (nets): neighborhood socializing, corner gangs • degree of organization (catnets): associations, clubs, parties, governments

  6. Classifying Populations, Places, and Activities • Sumner: folkways and mores • Park and Burgess: "natural" and planned • Parsons: AGIL systems and functions • economic: adaptation • political: goal attainment • social-community: integration • cultural: latent pattern maintenance

  7. Functional/Parsons Systems • Every social system (including community system) must meet functional system requirements (notably, integration for community) • Much conflict and most social problems • dysfunctional systems (e.g., death of community) • role integration/conflict

  8. How do You Want to Think About Communities? • physical, biological, geographic, ecological, or economic aspects • social ecology, function, construction • political ecology, function, economy • cultural history, functionalism, materialism, politics

  9. Models of Social Organization • ecological or evolutionary • functionalist • dialectical • interactive

  10. Mapping Communities • Nanuet, NY, 1955 (30 miles NW of George Washington Bridge) woods Hogans Catholic Church woods gas funeral home central business district light industry hotel and restaurant

  11. Nanuet, NY, 2010 NY State Thruway tract housing woods tract housing Catholic Church strip mall strip mall shopping center tract housing hotel and restaurant estate lot housing Bing Map of Nanuet Census Map of Nanuet

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