Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
Ecology of the Community - Coggle Diagram
Ecology of the Community
Community Involvement
Volunteerism
possible services include tutoring, building homes, caring for homebound seniors, working at food banks, donating food, clothing and household items, helping maintain parks by cleaning the environment, responding to natural disasters.
Advocacy
child advocacy: the process of sensitizing individuals and groups to the unmet needs of children and to society's obligation to provide a positive response to those needs.
can be exemplified in the law (macrosystem) and in the community services provided to help families (mesosystem).
Influences
Macrosystem on Community Services: Political ideology and economics
Mesosystem: Linking community services to families and schools
Functions
Production/distro/consumption
Socializations
Social Control
Social Participation
Mutual Support
The psychological and practical relationships between humans and their social, as well as physical, environment
Agencies
A formal support system. Public, private or combination
include preventative, supportive and rehabilitative services
Influence on Socialization
Physical Factors: population density and composition, noise, community design, play settings
"Family Friendly" = education, child care, recreation, community safety, citizen involvement, physical environment, employment opportunities, cost of living, neighborhood quality
Economic Factors: Cost of housing, transportation, healthcare, and education
Social and Personal Factors: Neighborhood setting, patterns of community interaction, size of community, social diversity, shared norms, valued type of social relationship,
Gesellschaft: associative, practical, objective and formal interpersonal relationships.
Gemeinschaft: communal, cooperative, close, intimate, and informal interpersonal relationships.