You can find guidance for community change in a number of theoretical perspectives and related principles. Which of the following is an important theoretical perspective or principle regarding promoting community change?
A. Power and dominance are the same thing. The only way you can be powerful is through your ability to dominate another party.
B. One person acting alone can create significant community change.
C. In almost any situation people will act even if they believe that their actions won't be successful.
D. People often do not realize that they are using their own cultural framework as the starting point for
Q. 2A community capital orientation
A. Emphasizes what the community is lacking so that change agents know what needs to address.
B. Looks at the economic well-being of a community as the most significant form of wealth.
C. Considers a number of forms of wealth in a community, including spiritual capital
D. Utilizes social capital, which encourages members to reduce personal stress by acknowledging that dealing with community issues is someone else's problem.
Q. 3Healthy communities
A. Find ways to exclude members whose attitudes and behaviors challenge the harmony of the community.
B. Maintain a focus on their own concerns and does not waste time and energy on external connections.
C. Focus on the limitations of problems and faulty connections.
D. Acknowledge resources and use them to foster the growth of the community and its members.
Q. 4According to chaos theory
A. Understanding how a system functions allows us to accurately predict how it will act.
B. A small change in the system can have a large consequence, particularly when the system is interacting with other systems.
C. Small actions really only produce small results.
D. Butterflies are probably the most powerful force on the planet.
Q. 5According to systems theory
A. A core concern of any system is maintaining a balance.
B. Systems usually act when they are in balance rather than out of balance.
C. What happens outside the system has little effect on the system itself.
D. Each part of a system operates independently from other parts.
Q. 6Change agents who rely on theory
A. Spend most of their time in the clouds afraid of taking action.
B. Transfer and refine their learning from one experience to the next.
C. Are hesitant to act until all questions have been answered.
D. Pretty much make things up as they go along.
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