Psychological sense of community and motivation toward collective social change among community coalition members of color in the southwestern United States

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
David T. Lardier ◽  
Erica A. Merrill ◽  
Irene N. Cantu
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Southwestern United States ◽  
Community Coalition ◽  
Psychological Sense Of Community ◽  
Psychological Sense

Building Community in a Pluralist High School

2009 ◽  
pp. 375-394
Author(s):  
Susan L. Shevitz ◽  
Rahel Wasserfall
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
High School ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
The United States ◽  
Educational Approach ◽  
Psychological Sense Of Community ◽  
Building Community ◽  
Psychological Sense ◽  
The Individual

This chapter investigates how an intentionally pluralistic Jewish high school in the United States called ‘Tikhon’ deals with questions regarding the individual and the community in its educational practice. It analyses what the practices reveal about its understanding of pluralism. The chapter argues that two dynamics are fundamental to Tikhon's efforts: first, the need to create an environment in which participants can risk the differentiation, debate, discussion, and openness to cooperation and change that are at the heart of Tikhon's understanding of community; and second, the need to create a psychological sense of community in which ‘difference’ is central to the conception of community. This chapter's enquiry is part of a larger project to study how pluralism is enacted and understood at Tikhon. It asserts that the approach and methods found at Tikhon can be applied to other settings where the tension between the individual and the group is central to the educational approach.

scholarly journals Psychological sense of community as an example of prefiguration among Occupy protesters

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 180-195
Author(s):  
Magda Permut
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Community Psychology ◽  
Direct Democracy ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
The United States ◽  
Psychological Sense Of Community ◽  
Integrative Framework ◽  
Prefigurative Politics ◽  
Psychological Sense

This study examines psychological sense of community (PSOC) among participants in the Baltimore, Maryland and Washington, DC Occupy protests. The Occupy protests brought national attention to economic disparities in the United States. The movement was unique in its development of physical protest sites where participants developed communities, piloted direct democracy techniques, and tested out alternative ways of life. The current research examines 24 qualitative interviews using an integrative framework that draws upon sociology and community psychology concepts. This framework suggests that the Occupy movement created a protest space wherein participants experienced positive sense of community at the micro-level (the Occupy site), which often contrasted with their neutral or negative sense of community at the macro-level (the United States). Implications for the study of prefigurative politics are discussed. This research adds to extant literature in community psychology and prefigurative politics by systematically examining multi-level sense of community as an example of prefiguration within a social movement.

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