Human Behavior Social Environment
Human Behavior Social Environment
Discussion
In Chapter 13, you were presented with a global development case study utilizing the three feminist principles (see highlights 13-4, starting on page 506). Based on what you read, address the following questions:
- To what extent do you agree with the three feminist principles presented?
- How valuable did the principles seem in implementing the three programmatic examples? Explain.
- To what extent do these feminist principles help to advance social and economic justice? Explain.
Week 15: Theoretical Functions of Communities
Objectives
- Explore the functions of communities as part of “the range of social systems in which people live.”
- Identify the primary concepts involved in conceptual frameworks concerning community functions.
- “Apply knowledge to understand person and environment” by assessing the similarities and differences among community functions.
Instructions
Part 1: Match the following theoretical functions of communities from chapter 13 with their respective descriptions.
Part 2: After matching, address the following prompts (a & b) on page 2.
Theoretical Function of Communities (Warren, 1983)
- Production-distribution-consumption
- Socialization
- Social control
- Social participation
- Mutual support
_____ A. Concerns the involvement of citizens in social, political, and economic processes.
_____ B. Relates to “local participation in the process of producing, distributing, and consuming those goods and services that are a part of daily living and access to which is desirable in the immediate locality” (pp. 28–29).
____ C. Involves encouragement, assistance, caring, and cooperation among people in communities.
_____ D. Involves “the process through which a group influences the behavior of its members toward conformity with its norms” (p. 29).
_____ E. Concerns a “process by which society or one of its constituent social units transmits prevailing knowledge, social values, and behavior patterns to its members” (p. 29).
- After matching, answer and respond to the following:
- What concepts in the definitions characterize each function and make that function unique?
- What are the similarities and differences among the functions?
