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VCE Sociology

VCE Sociology. Unit 3 Outcome 1 Community and society ‘Factors that help both maintain and weaken a sense of community’. Sense of community. A sense of community focuses on the experience of community rather than its structure, form or physical features

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VCE Sociology

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  1. VCE Sociology Unit 3 Outcome 1 Community and society ‘Factors that help both maintain and weaken a sense of community’

  2. Sense of community • A sense of community focuses on the experience of community rather than its structure, form or physical features • It involves a feeling that members have of belonging and connection to one another and the group • A sense of community is often a “sense of belonging”, aka “community spirit” • It can be maintained, strengthened or weakened

  3. Sense of community • Think of a community you belong to • Identify any pre-requisites for membership to the community • Explain why the community is important to you or why you benefit from it • Describe how a sense of belonging is created within the community

  4. Maintain sense of community • A sense of community can be maintained or strengthened by: • Shared values and beliefs • Identifying features • Typical behaviours • Shared interest and purposes

  5. Maintain sense of community • Shared values and beliefs • Members share the same religion, ideologies or codes of behaviour • A karate community may: • Support Japanese militarism • View karate as a psychological endeavor promoting perseverance, fearlessness, virtue, and leadership skills • Aim to be inwardly humble and outwardly gentle

  6. Maintain sense of community • Identifying features • Members can be identified by language spoken, symbols/flags, anthems, clothing, food, music, dance, etc • Some private school communities may have: • Compulsory school uniforms • School logo on school bag • All students conforming to certain haircuts

  7. Maintain sense of community • Typical behaviours • Behaviour that brings members together such as meetings, social days/nights or working bees. • A sporting community may participate in: • Team training • Raising funds through a sausage sizzle at Bunnings • Competitions against other teams

  8. Maintain sense of community • Shared interest and purposes • Fundraising, achieving a goal or promoting a cause • A health-based community might: • Lobby for a change to fast food advertising • Increase fitness in children through school programs • Educate adults about childhood obesity

  9. Maintain sense of community • Think of a community • Identify examples of how SITS has developed, maintained or strengthened a sense of community • Explain whether a community can exist without incorporating all of the SITS categories

  10. Maintain sense of community • American sociologist Roland L. Warren (1963) categorises a community as: • A place in or near a definite geographical location • A place of physical and psychological security that serves as a home base • Performing the following functions: • Mutual support • Economic welfare • Socialisation • Social control • Social participation

  11. Maintain sense of community • Mutual support • Helping each other with tasks that are too big for one, and achieving common goals • Economic welfare • Production-distribution-consumption • Consumption of goods and services and the related employment in production and distribution is contained within the community

  12. Maintain sense of community • Socialisation • The teaching of morals, values and rules to its members • Social control • Ensuring that members adhere to the groups values and rules • Social participation • Meeting the needs for human companionship, often through religion

  13. Maintain sense of community • Rank Warren’s MESSS functions from most to least important in maintaining or strengthening a sense of community • Choose one function and describe how its omission would impact on the sense of community • Explain how a sense of community can be weakened by applying the MESSS theory

  14. Maintaining or Weakening? • Other factors that may maintain or weaken a sense of community include: • Political changes • laws or policy, free trade agreement • Economic changes • loss of funding, global financial crisis • Environmental changes • drought, rising sea levels • Technological changes • use of mobile phones in Cronulla riot, transport • Social changes • sexism, racism, ageism, etc

  15. Maintaining or Weakening? • The Cranbourne gas leak may have unintentionally brought the community together through a class action • The rebuilding of Kinglake after the fires has simultaneously maintained and weakened a sense of community • Changes to clearway times has brought Stonnington Council traders together as a community to “fight” the State Government

  16. TO DO • Write definitions of the following terms in your glossary: • Sense of community • Sense of community (MESSS) • Sense of community (SITS)

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