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Ecology of the Community - Coggle Diagram
Ecology of the Community
5 functions of a community
Production, Distribution, Consumption
The community provides its members with the means to make a living.
Socialization
The community has means by which it instills its norms and values in its members.
Social control
The community has means to enforce adherence to community values.
Social participation
The community fulfills the need for companionship. EX: neighborhood, church, business or other group
Mutual support:
The community enables its members to cooperate to accomplish tasks too large or too urgent to be handled by a single person.
Factors that make a community "family-friendly"
Education(quality academic programs and safe schools)
Recreation(facilities and opportunities)
Community safety
Citizen involvement
Physical environment(clean, safe, attractive well cared for)
Employment opportunities(good jobs, economic growth)
Cost of living
Neighborhood quality(housing affordability, good government, cultural opportunities)
Physical factors
Population density and composition
The number of people occupying a certain area of space. High pop. density can have positive effects on social relationships in that ppl have many opportunities to mingle.
Population composition
The stability or mobility of people in a neighborhood as well as to their homogeneity or heterogeneity.
Noise
Sound that is undesired or interferes with that to which one is listening.
Community design
The way houses and streets are arranged.
valued types of social relationship
Gemeinschaft
Mutually dependent, Caring, Informal, intimate, trusting, Kin, Friends, Neighbors, Collectively oriented
Interpersonal relationships are communal, cooperative, close, intimate, and informal.
Gesellschaft
Independent, Contractual, Formal, Associate, Mistrusting, Employers/managers, Individually oriented
Interpersonal relationships are associate, practive, objective, and formal.