INT 900 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Bowling Alone, Social Capital, Multi-Level Governance

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Interdisciplinary Studies
• Course: INT 900
• Professor: John Shields

Document Summary

Requires a subjective component in order to function as a larger entity. Role of self consciousness; agency; external group validation (tests) Self consciousness (actually have to have an awareness of themselves) Agency (sector also have to act as an agency, recognise importance and credit on a global scale) External group validation (others need to recognize the sector, groups that would come and talk) Vsi (voluntary sector initiative, federal government bring sector organizations together and work out understandings of how to do business together) 5 core roles that non-profit sector plays: services (provides tangible, food banks, health care services, clothing, shelter, employment services/more intangible (counselling, moral support) Building of networks, norms, value systems, social trust. Social cohesion bringing people together: citizenship (everyday engagement within society, participation and membership) One of the key functions the non-profit sector plays. Community can be defined as a distinct group of people who share connections, characteristics, or needs.