Community Organization

Social Justice

A basic value of community organization which refers to equal access to opportunities, the equitable distribution of resources and power through people's fullest participation in their own development.

Human Rights

A basic value of community organization which refers to universally principles anchored on the belief in man's worth and dignity. It includes the right to live and survival, to self-determination and to development as persons and as couple.

Social Transformation

A broad goal of community org which seeks to change the life of a community and the whole society into a democratic, nationalistic, self-reliant and self-governing entity.

Building Alliances

A broad goal of community organizing which aims to give the people, skills in intra and inter organizational management and process through group linkages and networking among the various groups in the community.

Building Organization

A broad goal of community organizing which brings into being relatively permanent structures that can better serve the needs and aspirations of the community.

Popular Democracy

A broad goal of community organizing which entails such attributes as a consensus building in decision-making, planning and participation in community projects. This gives rise to one man one vote system freedom of speech and religion.

People Empowerment

A broad goal of community organizing which helps the community to become better equipped with appropriate skills, ethics to assert and advocate for their rights toward social equity, fairness and human dignity. People Empowerment

TRUE

A community is classified on the basis of its size.

TRUE

A community is marked by an organized social life.

TRUE

A doctor from the neighboring barrio is an internal resource of the community.

Faith-based Model

A method of working with faith communities to address the problems and concerns of their communities and in turn, visualize and strengthen the life of communities.

Indigenous Community

A type of community inhabited by indigenous people who are inheritors and practitioners of unique cultures and ways of relating to people and the environment.

Geographical Community

A type of community which refers to the people in a specific area as the village, sitio, district, nation and the world.

Relevant Community

A type of community whose population has a common interest in changing existing institutions to achieve redistribution of opportunity, resources and benefits. Population who share a common fate as victims of discrimination, injustice and deprivation.

Community Sentiment

An element of community which refers to a strong sense or belonging among the members of a community characterized by a sentiment of common living that exists among the members of a locality.

TRUE

As a process, CO is a series of interrelated activities with the aim of unifying the people into an organization.

TRUE

As a process, CO is series or interrelated activities with the aim of unifying people into an organization, characterized by people's participation in all aspects of the organizing process.

TRUE

As a radical approach in bringing development to the community, community organization employs coercion and advocacy to uproot the causes of social injustice in the development of the people.

Saul Alinsky

Believed that community organization seeks to develop people's ability to think critically.

FALSE

CO along with casework are considered the macro practice intervention.

TRUE

Centralized decision-making will not promote genuine community organization.

TRUE

Communities are naturally organized and grows spontaneously.

TRUE

Communities are self-determining.

FALSE (NOT SURE)

Communities are structured differently.

Murray G. Ross

Community Organization is a process by which a community identifies its needs and objectives, ranks these needs and develops the confidence and the will to work, acts and in so doing extends and develops cooperative and collaborative attitudes and practices in the community.

FALSE

Community Organization is a secondary method of social work.

E. Kramer and Specht

Community Organization refers to a method of intervention whereby a professional change agent helps a community action system composed of individuals, groups or organizations to engage in planned collective actions in order to deal with special problems within a democratic system of values.

Eduard C. Lindeman

Community Organization refers to those phases of social organization which constitute a conscious effort on the part of a community to control its affairs democratically. ​

FALSE

Community has legal status.

TRUE

Community is a complex process that goes beyond the mere setting up of formal organizations.

TRUE

Community is formed only when people reside in a definite territory.

TRUE

Community organization as a method or social work in the Philippines is largely seen as a process of developing local initiatives particularly in the areas of education, health and agriculture development.

TRUE

Community organization in the US during the nineteenth century was expressed in terms of the activities of the COS.

Saul Alinsky

Community organization is a process which engages the oppressed in a continuous reflection and action against situations which limit the unfolding of their potentials.

TRUE

Community organization is both a process and a method.

conscientizacao

Conscientization comes from the word what?

TRUE

Cooperation is the establishment of rapport with the people and imbibing community life by living with the people and undergoing the same experience that they have.

Arthur Dunham

Defined CO as a conscious process of social interaction and method of social work concerned with three types of objectives.

FALSE

Freire introduced the mass-based concept of organizing.

TRUE

Functional community refers to the people who hold common values, and share common interest.

TRUE

History shows that community work even preceded social work education.

TRUE

In social work, community development, community organization and community services are interlinked and at the same times overlapping.

TRUE

In social work, community development, community organization and community services are often interlinked and at times overlapping.

TRUE

In social work, community work, community organization and community empowerment are at times used interchangeably.

False

In social work, the focus of community organization practice is influenced by a system of personal and professional values.

self-reliant and self-determining

In the Philippines, community work as an approach to development has been used for decades in trying to establish _______ and _______ communities.

No answers yet

In the community, certain traditional ways of behaving is developed which determine to some extent whether the people will participate actively or not.

TRUE

Indigenous community holds distinct language, beliefs, and culture.

Social Responsibility

Is premised on the belief that man as a social being must not be limited to his own concern but should reach out to others and move jointly with them in meeting common needs and problems.

Locality Development

It is a method of working with community groups.

Community

It is an aggregation of individuals and families settled in a compact geographical area with significant elements of common life as shown by manners, customs, traditions and mode of speech.

TRUE

Members of PASWI can be considered community.

TRUE

Natural resource is the most important resource of the community.

Viable, self-reliant and grassroots managed PO

One of the aims of community organization.

TRUE

Organizing must lead to mass action and pressure strategy.

FALSE

Philippine Association of Social Workers Incorporated (PASWI) is an example of a geographic community.

FALSE

Progressive communities are the target of CO.

Definite Locality

Refers to individuals living permanently with a definite territory.

TRUE

Rothman introduced three models of CO namely, Social Planning, and Locality Development.

TRUE

Rural community is usually characterized by a peasant economy.

FALSE

Self-determination is the CO value that a social worker must pursue to the residents in an urban poor community who cannot get slots in a housing project because nonresident families close to the manager were awarded slots.

FALSE

Sitio, district, municipality, city, province, region, nation are examples of functional community.

FALSE

The culture, attitude and behavior of a community differ from one another.

TRUE

The important determining factors of community organization are interaction, coordination of the existing groups/institutions, and activities in the community.

Group of people

The most fundamental or essential characteristics or elements of community.

Conflict-confrontation

This approached became a leading and effective strategy during the period of severe political repression because this allowed the tackling of issues at the grassroots level.

Relationship Goal

This goal focuses on changing certain types of social relationships, especially decision-making patterns in community.

Process Goal

This goal is concerned with the process of helping people grow in certain ways and helping people in the community or neighborhood or a particular group to strengthen their qualities of participation, self-direction and cooperation.

Task Goal

This goal is concerned with the tasks, undertaken in order to meet specific needs or to solve particular problems.

Social Action

This is a strategy used by groups or sub-communities or even national organizations that feel that they have inadequate power and resources to meet their needs.

Procedural or political action

This is an approach in social action carried on through established parliamentary or formal organizational procedure.

Direct Action

This is an approach in social action which refers to personal activity of some type other than procedural social action. This implies more physical and emotional involvement on the part of the participants and often a deep commitment and militant spirit.

Locality development

This model lies on the belief that communities have some common needs and interests and once the people realize this need and work together democratically they can take appropriate steps to improve the quality of life.

Conflict

This occurs when there is a situation in which two or more persons desire goals that they perceive as being attainable by one of the other but not by both.

Social Planning

This refer to the type of community work where a worker or agency undertakes an exercise of evaluating welfare needs and existing services in the area and suggests a possible blue print for a more efficient delivery of services.

urban community

This type of community is characterized by high density of population, availability of basic services and opportunities.

Functional Community

This type of community refers to the people who hold common values, functions or common interest. People in this type of community work collaboratively and collectively in attaining its goal.

TRUE

Tribal community holds distinct language, beliefs, and culture.

TRUE

Understanding the attitudes and relationships of people in the community is very important.

TRUE

Values affect the social workers style of intervention and the skills he/she use in working with community.

Community building

What is the important focus of Locality Development?

Paolo Freire

Who is the proponent of conscientization model?

Saul Alinsky

Who popularized the Conflict-Confrontation Model?

Process Goal

assess community problems and plan possible solutions (what goal)

Relationship Goal

build patterns of interaction to increase people's participation (what goal)

Relationship Goal

change people's attitudes and decision-making pattern (what goal)

Task Goal

community assessment (what goal)

Relationship Goal

develop people's concern to support with one another (what goal)

Relationship Goal

encourage a collaborative and joint effort of the people in solving their problems (what goal)

Task Goal

heighten people's awareness (what goal)

Process Goal

increase people's awareness on the causes and effects of their problem (what goal)

process goals

motivate people to participate (what goal)

task goal

problem analysis (what goal)