Making Sense of Community Action and Voluntary Participation-A Multilevel Test of Multilevel Hypotheses: Do Communities Act?

2015 ◽  
Vol 81 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael R. Cope ◽  
Alex Currit ◽  
Jeremy Flaherty ◽  
Ralph B. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Community Action ◽  
Voluntary Participation ◽  
Making Sense

scholarly journals Making Sense of Community and Identity in Twenty-First Century Technoscience

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-37
Author(s):  
Karen Kastenhofer ◽  
Susan Molyneux-Hodgson
Keyword(s):  
Synthetic Biology ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
First Century ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
Individual Contributions ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Individual

AbstractThis introductory chapter begins with the empirical example of synthetic biology, a case that has challenged our own thinking, provoking us to re-address the concepts of scientific ‘community’ and ‘identity’ in contemporary technoscience. The chapter then moves on to a delineation of the conceptualisations of community and identity in past sociologies of science, highlighting open questions, promising avenues and potential shortcomings in explaining contemporary conditions. Following this, the individual contributions to this volume are presented, including their analyses on community and identity constellations and the related effects on the contemporary technosciences as institutions, practices and living spaces. This is achieved with a focus on common themes that come to the fore from the various contributions. In a final discussion, we take stock of our attempt at re-addressing community and identity in contemporary technoscientific contexts and discuss where this has brought us; which ambiguities could not be resolved and which questions seem promising starting points for further conceptual and empirical endeavour.

Community and Representation

2020 ◽  
pp. 123-152
Author(s):  
Erika Hanna
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Inner City ◽  
Community Organizations ◽  
Community Action ◽  
City Community ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Action Project ◽  
New Form ◽  
The Unemployed ◽  
Power Class

Chapter 4 explores community photography and the new radicalism it brought to amateur photographic practice during the 1970s. This movement, begun in London and disseminated through the pages of Camerawork magazine, propounded the potential of photography as a form of collective action which could bring communities together and empower individuals. Through groups such as the Shankill Photographic Workshop, Derry Camerawork, and the NorthCentre City Community Action Project, activists taught photography to community organizations, as well as prisoners, the unemployed, and women’s groups. This new form of photographic activism served a variety of functions. It was a form of practice that brought people together and taught unemployed and demoralized residents of the inner-city skills and self-respect. It enabled communities that had become the object of a media gaze which turned their lives into stereotypes to create representations of themselves, which they felt more accurately reflected the reality of their lives. In these evening classes and dark rooms, photography became a mechanism of raising consciousness and building communal cohesion. Moreover, it provided a way of making sense of the agglomeration of power, class, and gaze which rendered the lives of the unemployed, or inner-city residents only as ‘types’, and so provided these new photographers with a way of critiquing—if not resisting—these processes.

Teaching Note: Making Sense of Poverty Through the Use of Simulative Learning

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 269-279
Author(s):  
Cora S. Jackson ◽  
Angela Savage ◽  
Angela Gaddis ◽  
Jana Donahoe
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Social Work Students ◽  
Community Action ◽  
Course Content ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Competency Based ◽  
Action Network ◽  
Implicit And Explicit ◽  
Work Education

Undergraduate social work students are often challenged by their inability to integrate the implicit and explicit course content in the matriculation of their studies. As educational mandates push for greater integration of skills and knowledge, some BSW programs are turning to the use of simulations to supplement classroom experiences and enhance competency-based training. This teaching note explores the authors' use of the Poverty Simulation, copyrighted by the Missouri Community Action Network, as a type of experiential learning in BSW education. Simulative learning is then linked to the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) 2015 Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards (EPAS) Competencies to explore its usefulness in undergirding implicit course content.

Making sense of health and illness in palliative care: Volunteers' perspectives

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 325-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrée Sévigny ◽  
S. Robin Cohen ◽  
Serge Dumont ◽  
Annie Frappier
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Community Action ◽  
Transformative Experience ◽  
Care Community ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Spiritual Well Being ◽  
Health And Illness ◽  
Canadian Provinces ◽  
Hospice Palliative Care

AbstractObjective:To encourage communication and contribute to the palliative care movement's need for interdisciplinary care, this article offers to explore the stance of volunteers on two fundamental concepts, “health” and “illness,” as well as their related understanding of “palliative care.” Volunteers' understandings are then compared with the concepts put forth by the Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association (CHPCA) in its “Model to Guide Hospice Palliative Care.”Method:Focus groups with volunteers, and individual interviews with coordinators from five selected palliative care community action organizations from across Canada, are used. A total of 65 participants from three Canadian provinces were interviewed.Results:Participants view illness as a subjective, multidimensional, and transformative experience that requires multiple adjustments. It is an impediment to personal equilibrium and a challenge for the terminally ill and their close ones. Health, on the other hand, is a complex phenomenon that consists of physical, psychological, social, and spiritual well-being. For participants, health is most often embodied by a person's capacity to adjust to their challenging circumstances. Both volunteers and coordinators see palliative care as an alternative approach to care that centers on helping patients and their families through their ordeal by offering comfort and respite, and helping patients enjoy their life for as long as possible.Significance of Results:Participants describe illness as a destabilizing loss and palliative care as a means to compensate for the numerous consequences this loss brings; their actions reflect these principles and are compatible with the CHPCA model.

scholarly journals The Application of Salutogenesis in Communities and Neighborhoods

2022 ◽  
pp. 349-359
Author(s):  
Lenneke Vaandrager ◽  
Lynne Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Place Identity ◽  
Community Action ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Life Chances ◽  
Social Entity ◽  
Health And Well Being

AbstractCommunities and neighborhoods have reemerged as important settings for health promotion; they are particularly effective for encouraging social processes which may shape our life-chances and lead to improved health and well-being; consequently, as Scriven and Hodgins, (2012) note, of all the settings (cities, schools, workplaces, universities, etc.), communities are the least well defined. Indeed, within the health literature, they are frequently referred to in terms of place, identity, social entity, or collective action.This chapter on communities and neighborhoods distinguishes between settings as a place (natural and built environment), identity (sense of community), social entity (cohesion, social capital), and collective action (reactive-resilience; proactive-community action) – all meaningful categories of generalized resistance resources (GRRs). Such clearly defined GRR categories would allow the study of their relative importance for developing the sense of coherence (SOC) and a newer concept – setting-specific SOC.

Making Sense of Voluntary Participation: A Theoretical Synthesis*

2005 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 287-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vernon D. Ryan ◽  
Kerry A. Agnitsch ◽  
Lijun Zhao ◽  
Rehan Mullick
Keyword(s):  
Voluntary Participation ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Theoretical Synthesis
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