Dimensions of Communities

Community has multiple dimensions that are relevant in different ways for informing community practice by framing community as an organizing principle for targeting intervention or as a foundation for broader social action. Chaskin suggests three lenses through which to view community: social, spatial and political. Each lens emphasizes a particular dimesnion of community structure and processs within which different component actors and processes- individuals, organizations, networks- may be identified, active and activated.

 

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Readings

Chaskin, R. J. (2013). Theories of Community. In M. Weil, M. Reisch, & M. L. Ohmer (Eds.), The handbook of community practice (2nd ed., pp. 105–122). SAGE Publications, Inc.

Netting, F. E., Kettner, P. M., McMurtry, S. L., & Thomas, M. L. (2017). Social Work Macro Practice (6th ed.). Pearson Education, Inc.