PS282 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Community Psychology, Learned Helplessness, Operant Conditioning
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Examples of citizen participation: voting, petition, donating resources, boycott, writing in local newspaper, self-help group, marches, neighborhood meetings, community volunteering, fundraising. Infiltrating: alternative methods of change: graffiti artist spray painting areas that he wanted the police to. In class examples: strike, walk-out, letters take more notice of (e. g. areas where drugs are being sold) How change happens: these steps are, assess, figuring out what the neighborhood needs. If it works, expand and adapt to different communities: repeat. Advantages and disadvantages to citizen participation: money, time. Do they still want this type of change: benefits outweigh costs, the benefits of all this outweighs the cost. Ties within your own organization: bridging tying to other similar groups. Information dissemination: communities may need more info. to promote wellness, etc. for the goals it has, giving information for the goals that could be helpful, giving information about a specific problem.
