Homan, Promoting Community Change, 6th Edition

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Chapter 5

  1. A community
  1. Is essentially a geographic area, like a neighborhood, where people live.
  2. Is a number of people with shared a location, interest, identification, or other characteristic that identifies their commonality and differentiates them from those not sharing it.
  3. Only exists when people recognize their common interests.
  4. Is a living thing rather than a condition or state of being.

Analysis

  1. Incorrect. See “Perspectives on Community.”
  2. Correct.
  3. Incorrect. See “Perspectives on Community.”
  4. Incorrect. See “Perspectives on Community.”
  1. When considering different communities in your arena of action you will see
  1. The benefit community, which includes those people who currently experience the problem or condition that needs improving and could benefit from its resolution.
  2. The action community, which includes those who are trying to avoid action and in so doing perpetuate the problem.
  3. The target community, which is best understood as the opponent.
  4. The benefit, action, and target communities as three distinct groups of people who are only connected by being in the same time and place.

Analysis

  1. Correct.
  2. Incorrect. See “Perspectives on Community.”
  3. Incorrect. See “Perspectives on Community.”
  4. Incorrect. See “Perspectives on Community.”
  1. When trying to understand your community it is helpful to recognize that
  1. You cannot get moving on your change effort until you have each and every piece of information available on your community.
  2. Information gathering and action are two distinct phases.
  3. Features like the dimensions or size of the community, key landmarks, places where people gather and other physical characteristics are important things to know about geographic communities.
  4. The number of people in the community is all that really matters.

Analysis

  1. Incorrect. See “What to Look For in Your Community.”
  2. Incorrect. See “What to Look For in Your Community.”
  3. Correct.
  4. Incorrect. See “What to Look For in Your Community.”
  1. Understanding how a community functions
  1. Primarily concerns how a community acts in times of conflict.
  2. Primarily concerns basic objective facts about the community, such as demographic information.
  3. Primarily concerns how a community uses its various forms of capital to meet its requirements
  4. Primarily concerns whether or not people have access to food, shelter, and clothing.

Analysis

  1. Incorrect. See “What to Look For in Your Community.”
  2. Incorrect. See “What to Look For in Your Community.”
  3. Correct.
  4. Incorrect. See “What to Look For in Your Community.”
  1. Participatory Action Research is
  1. Rejects scientific approaches such as hypothesis generation and testing in favor of consensus building methods.
  2. Takes information out of the community and uses it elsewhere.
  3. Avoids critical self assessment.
  4. Assumes that those who most experience the events and rhythms of the community are the most qualified to investigate it and direct the use of information.

Analysis

  1. Incorrect. See “Community-Based Participatory Research.”
  2. Incorrect. See “Community-Based Participatory Research.”
  3. Incorrect. See “Community-Based Participatory Research.”
  4. Correct.
  1. In the Global Perspectives section you can see that
  1. From Nicaragua…using community mapping technologies hasproven effective in empowering local communities.
  2. From Sweden…trying to assess a community’s value system is impossibly complex.
  3. From Indonesia…community mapping must focus on tangible assets.
  4. From Sweden…social economy means having the focal point be based on employment and generating products for distribution and sale.

Analysis

  1. Correct.
  2. Incorrect. See “Global Perspectives.”
  3. Incorrect. See “Global Perspectives.”
  4. Incorrect. See “Global Perspectives.”
  1. A community assessment
  1. Is effective when it helps define a community according to its needs or problems.
  2. Is best done to confirm or provide justification for an action you have already decided to take.
  3. Helps you to recognize that if needs are not being met, resources don’t exist to do the job.
  4. Requires that you pinpoint the location of your community’s wealth, sometimes hidden wealth, by doing a resource assessment or asset map.

Analysis

  1. Incorrect. See “Community-Based Participatory Research.”
  2. Incorrect. See “Community-Based Participatory Research.”
  3. Incorrect. See “Community-Based Participatory Research.”
  4. Correct.
  1. When looking at a community’s readiness and disposition toward change
  1. Recognize that almost all constraints are imagined.
  2. A number of dimensions of readiness exist, such as community efforts, community knowledge of efforts, leadership support, community climate, community knowledge about the issue, and resources related to the issue.
  3. If a community is strong in one area of readiness it is highly likely that it is strong in all areas; if it is weak in one area it is highly likely that it is weak in all areas.
  4. When a community is at the impasse stage people see clear signs that the community is moving forward.

Analysis

  1. Incorrect. See “Assessing the Community’s Needs and Resources.”
  2. Correct.
  3. Incorrect. See “Assessing the Community’s Needs and Resources.”
  4. Incorrect. See “Assessing the Community’s Needs and Resources.”
  1. Methods for finding out about your community
  1. No longer include the library because as warehouses of printed works libraries have become outdated in the digital age.
  2. Recognize that most organizations that generate information about your community are unlikely to share that information.
  3. Recognize that surveys and questionnaires can be helpful if you prepare to ask enough of the right people the right questions in a way that makes it likely they will accurately respond to give information that you can interpret and use.
  4. Recognize that almost any group of people can give you the information you need to get an accurate gauge of the community’s concerns and willingness to act.

Analysis

  1. Incorrect. See “How to Find Out What You Need to Know.”
  2. Incorrect. See “How to Find Out What You Need to Know.”
  3. Correct.
  4. Incorrect. See “How to Find Out What You Need to Know.”
  1. Methods for finding out about your community
  1. Require that you fully understand the broad level of community functioning before you examine matters related to your close community
  2. Include using mapping technology, which can help you uncover a storehouse of information that is already gathered, such as ownership of parcels of land, crime data for a specific region, number of people living on each block, stress indicators for a specific area, and much more.
  3. Include using mapping technology, though you need to recognize that you must generate and represent all of the data that you will include in your map.
  4. Windshield surveys, which involve members of your organization placing surveys on the windshields of vehicles parked in large parking lots, with instructions on how to return the survey to your organization.

Analysis

  1. Incorrect. See “How to Find Out What You Need to Know.”
  2. Correct.
  3. Incorrect. See “How to Find Out What You Need to Know.”
  4. Incorrect. See “How to Find Out What You Need to Know.”