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PSY 270 COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY

PSY 270 COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY. Week 8 Day 1. Schedule. Exam Thursday Group work day on Tuesday, come to class If all groups are not represented, I will not offer any more work days. Outline today. Ecology Sense of Community Exam Review. Barker: Ecological Psych & Behavior Settings.

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PSY 270 COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY

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  1. PSY 270COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY Week 8 Day 1

  2. Schedule • Exam Thursday • Group work day on Tuesday, come to class • If all groups are not represented, I will not offer any more work days.

  3. Outline today • Ecology • Sense of Community • Exam Review

  4. Barker: Ecological Psych & Behavior Settings • Behavior settings • Underpopulated settings • Limitations • Contributions

  5. Kelly Four Ecological Principles • Interdependence • Cycling of resources • Adaptation • Succession • Contributions • Limitations

  6. Moos: Social Climate • Relationship • Personal development • System maintenance & change • Limitations • Contributions

  7. Seidman: Social Regularities • Definition • Routine patterns of social relations among the elements within a setting over time • Focus on roles and relationships not individuals (power) • Limitations • Contributions

  8. Environmental Psychology • Physical environment influence on behavior • Useful at microsystem, neighborhood and community

  9. Sense of Community • Types of Communities • McMillan-Chavis Model • Types of Neighborhoods

  10. Types of Communities • Broadly defined, a community is any group of 2 or more individuals who share something in common, but feel different from others in some way: • Kenneth Heller (1989) – Conceptualizes Community in 3 ways: • 1. Geographic Community/Locality – membership based on locale (i.e., city, town, neighborhood). • 2. Relational Community – membership based on social interaction (i.e., families, clubs, organizations, groups). • 3. Community as Collective Power – membership based on a shared goal and emerge when people together for some unified action.

  11. McMillan-Chavis Model of Sense of Community • Membership • Sense of investment and belonging • Influence • Power individuals exert on community and power that the group exerts on individuals • Integration and fulfillment of needs • Shared values among members, exchange of resources • Shared emotional connection • “spiritual bond” by shared history among members

  12. Types of Neighborhoods (Warren & Warren, 1977) • Integral • Parochial • Diffuse • Stepping Stone • Transitory • Anomic

  13. Neighborhood Type Summary

  14. Review • From colleagues in class • Chapters 5, 6 & 7 notes on web • Multiple choice • Short answer • Essays

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