Community Organization and Social Action - Lecture Series 2

Content of the Lecture -
Community Organization: Concept and Meaning
Defining Community Organization
Scope of Community Organization
Process of Community Organization
Concept and Meaning of Community Organization -
a method used to make efforts and directed towards community needs
It develops integration within the community and helps the people to cooperate each other.
It is a democratic method which believes in the concept of equality, equity and dignity.
It works in the community to develop the living standard of people through their own resources and activities.
They motivate the people and inculcate the idea of promotion and progress is community.
Defining Community Organization -
Murray G. Ross (1967)
“process by which a community identifies its needs or objectives, gives priority to them, develops confidence and will to work at them, finds resources (internal and external) to deal with them, and in doing so, extends and develops cooperative and collaborative attitudes and practices in the community”
Kramer and Specht (1975)
Kramer and Specht (1975)
Community organization refers to various methods of intervention whereby a professional change agent helps a community action system composed of individuals, groups or organizations to engage in planned collective action in order to deal with special problems within the democratic system of values.”
Scope of Community Organization -
Upliftment of Vulnerable Section
Enables Change in Outlook
Supports Economic Development
Improvement of Existing Circumstances
Improvement of Existing Ventures and Resources
Process of Community Organization -
Step 1: Community Assessment
Step 2: Community outreach
Step 3: Clarify your goals
Step 4: Frame Strategies for Action
Step 5: Build Local Leadership
Step 6: Mobilize People
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