SOC3073 Sociology of Community: Introduction and Community Development

Introduction and Community Development References Hoult, Thomas Ford. 1969. Dictionary of Modern Sociology. Totowa, NJ: Littlefield, Adams & Company. Warren, Roland L. 1978. The Community in America. 3rd ed. New York: University Press of America. © 1999-2005 by Ronald Keith Bolender

Class Session Agenda • Devotions • Introduction of Facilitating Instructor • Student Information Card • Community Development • Review and discuss course syllabus © 1999-2005 by Ronald Keith Bolender

Introduction of Facilitating Instructor • Name • Early life • Colleges and universities • Work experiences • Academic experiences • Qualifications for acting as a facilitating instructor for this course © 1999-2005 by Ronald Keith Bolender

Community Development SOC3073 Sociology of Community • This course serves two functions • A study of urban, suburban, and rural society • A foundation course for the Community Development Track---The concept of community development will be introduced for SOC4073 Community Development © 1999-2005 by Ronald Keith Bolender

Community Development Definitions of Community • An interdependent collectivity of persons living relatively permanently in a geographically limited area which serves as a focus for a major portion of the resident’s daily life; usually involves people who share a common culture, although sometimes applied to collectives--e.g., the prison community--where the culture similarity of the participants may be minimal; © 1999-2005 by Ronald Keith Bolender

Community Development although sometimes used to denote entire nations, usually applied only to relatively small areas and numbers of people, the maximum of the latter sometimes being designated as the number who can maintain face-to-face relationships with one another; sometimes denotes specialized groups (e.g., the academic community, the business community) set off from society at large by the unique ways of doing and thinking that are maintained by group members. (Hoult 1969:73) © 1999-2005 by Ronald Keith Bolender

Community Development • Community. . . combination of social units and systems that perform the major social functions having locality relevance. In other words, by community we mean the organization of social activities to afford people daily local access to those broad areas of activity that are necessary in day-to-day living. (Warren 1978:9) © 1999-2005 by Ronald Keith Bolender

Community Development Definition of Community Development • The process, and the results of the process, wherein an attempt is made to solve, or to mitigate the effects of, localized social problems by means of locally controlled action programs which, under the guidance of technical experts, emphasize various forms of purposive change; often used synonymously with the term community action and with community organization. (Hoult 1969:73) © 1999-2005 by Ronald Keith Bolender

SOC3073 Sociology of Community: Introduction and Community Development