The term covers a vast landscape of meanings, interpretations, definitions and disciplines ranging from psychology and philosophy to the highly commercialized self-help industry and motivational scien ...
Community mobilization is a process through which action is stimulated by a community itself, or by others, that is planned, carried out, and evaluated by a community’s individuals, groups, and organ ...
The historical roots of CBPR generally trace back to the development of participatory action research by Kurt Lewin and Orlando Fals Borda, and the popular education movement in Latin America associat ...
Community Practice has considerable overlap with many other applied social sciences, such as urban planning, economic development, public affairs, rural sociology and nonprofit management. Community P ...
The Asset-Based Community Development Institute is located at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. The Asset-Based Community Development Institute (ABCD) is at the center of a large and grow ...
Effective political support is necessary for ecologically sustainable development. The mobilization of governments can be translated into action plans that are crucial to sustainable development. Deve ...
Direct action tactics have been around for as long as conflicts have existed but it is not known when the term first appeared. The radical union the Industrial Workers of the World first mentioned the ...
The term civil society goes back to Aristotle's phrase koinōnía politik? (κοινων?α πολιτικ?), occurring in his Politics, where it refers to a ‘community’, commensurate with the Gr ...
The term "social capital" was in occasional use from about 1890, but only became widely used in the late 1990s.In the first half of the 19th century, Alexis de Tocqueville had observations about Ameri ...
The organizations interpret community capacity building in their own ways and focus on it rather than promoting one-way development in developing nations. Fundraising, training centers, exposure visit ...
Community economic development is an alternative to conventional economic development. Its central tenet is that: “... problems facing communities—unemployment, poverty, job loss, environmental degr ...
Grassroots democracy is a tendency towards designing political processes where as much decision-making authority as practical is shifted to the organization's lowest geographic level of organization: ...
CDX had over 1000 members in the UK and Ireland. The membership base was varied and included agencies, projects and teams, networks and individuals from across the statutory, non-profit and private se ...
Social organization is a sociological concept, defined as a pattern of relationships between and among individuals and groups.Characteristics of social organization can include qualities such as size, ...
Roy's precise birth date is uncertain. He was born in Radhanagar, Hooghly, Bengal and his family were of no caste. His great grandfather Krishna Chandra Banerjee acquired the title Roy (a variant of R ...
