Capacity building

I feel as if I deserve a D+ for my self – evaluation . Working with people involves understand groups and all the function that make the group effectively. I have a very hard time working in groups, I find it hard to share my ideas with the members of the group and feels as if they would judge or question my ideas of what I can bring to the group. I feel if the class is divided and everyone works with who they’re comfortable with , I feel as if someone is not comfortable with you…

Personal Philosophy of the Student Affairs Field Reflecting on my personal college experience and those of my peers, I believe that the field of Student Affairs provides a unique and even essential opportunity to help shape the experience that student’s receive within the university setting. I strongly believe that students gain more from their college experience learning and growing outside of the classroom rather than inside. Self-discovery and personal exploration through extra-curricular…

community and identifying problems within the community, it is important for community members to participate in the issue selection process. Not only will issue selection produce community participation, but it will also contribute to community building and community unifying efforts. According to Khinduka’s article (1970), instead of just focusing on the psychological aspect of social change, facilitators should be looking at the socioeconomic issues that could be affecting social change.…

understanding of the team and its members and how each contribution differs from one another, its building skills and a definitive leadership contribute to the foundations of a successful team. Becoming unified needs to be addressed at the beginning, during the hiring process, and maintained after a member has been hired. According to the University of San Francisco, California, to establish team building…

Keywords: Social Relations, Reciprocities and Network Trading (Internal and External) Commodity Exchanges Money and Gift Identity: Outsiders/Foreigners (Threatening Aspect) Trade and tensions in the social economic relations Constituting network relation requires stability of social economy; therefore trade may bring peace, as it requires generosity, hospitality, and honor of human being through contractual gifts (Mauss, 1967, Polanyi, 2001). The system of economic exchange brings people to…

What can you do for me?” The basic foundational principle in business and relationships is more often than not predicated around self-interest. With even a rudimentary understanding of the importance of return on investment, the desire to help others so that the individual may profit later on is a natural expectation. This notion of quid pro quo originally takes root in Putnam’s understanding of social capital, with a few important distinctions, in his theory of the success or failure of a state…

With the rising popularity of social networking websites such as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, an increasing number of people are using these sites as tools for promoting civic engagement and collective action (Gil de Zúñiga, Jung, & Valenzuela, 2012). Recently, scholars have debated whether these are effective in facilitating civic engagement (e.g. Loader, Vromen, & Xenos, 2014), or if they merely encourage widespread slacktivism – a willingness to perform a relatively costless, token display…

Individual social movement participation can be largely understood through transition points – moments in a person’s life when his or her daily routines are drastically and irrevocably changed. Munson (2010) defines transition points as a simultaneous change in an individual’s everyday routines and a change in their social networks. Those who become active in social movements must change their daily routines in order to participate in meetings, protests, and demonstrations. This adjustment is…

Community leaders should also be aware of the barriers that prevent youth involvement, and develop strategies to avoid or effectively handle these obstacles – should they present. Researchers have found that there are three major barriers that affect youth participation. The first barrier is manipulation – youth do not want to feel like the adult leaders are attempting to manipulate them by educating them on community development, rather than engaging them in the process. Secondly, youth do…

Interview Preparation The purpose of this assignment is to help you begin forming responses to common interview questions. You are welcome to reference this document as we practice interviewing in class. You are welcome to use bulleted statements or type in full sentences for this assignment (I usually find bulleted statements more useful…that way, you don’t try to memorize specific lines, but focus on key points you want to communicate). Tell me about yourself. (Fill in the common content…