A Case Study of Low Collective Efficacy and Lack of Collective Community Action

2011 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 625-643 ◽  
Author(s):  
Intae Yoon
Keyword(s):  
Collective Efficacy ◽  
Community Action

scholarly journals Socio-psychological aspects of grassroots participation in the Transition Movement: An Italian case study

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 142-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fulvio Biddau ◽  
Alessandra Armenti ◽  
Paolo Cottone
Keyword(s):  
Collective Efficacy ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Community Action ◽  
Psychological Aspects ◽  
Italian Case ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Tackle Climate Change

In this article, we present a case study investigating the socio-psychological aspects of grassroots participation in a Transition Town Movement (TTM) community initiative. We analyzed the first Italian Transition initiative: Monteveglio (Bologna), the central hub of the Italian TTM and a key link with the global Transition Network. A qualitative methodology was used to collect and analyze the data consisting of interviews with key informants and ethnographic notes. The results provide further evidence supporting the role of social representations, shared social identities, and collective efficacy beliefs in promoting, sustaining, and shaping activists’ commitment. The movement seems to have great potential to inspire and engage citizens to tackle climate change at a community level. Grassroots engagement of local communities working together provides the vision and the material starting point for a viable pathway for the changes required. Attempting to ensure their future political relevance, the TTM adherents are striving to disseminate and materially consolidate inherently political and prefigurative movement frames – primarily community resilience and re-localization – within community socio-economic and political frameworks. However, cooperation with politics is perceived by most adherents as a frustrating and dissatisfying experience, and an attempted co-optation of the Transition initiative by institutions. It highlights a tension between the open and non-confrontational approach of the movement towards institutions and their practical experience. Corresponding to this tension, activists have to cope with conflicts, contradictions, and ambivalence of social representations about community action for sustainability, which threaten the sense of collective purpose, group cohesion and ultimately its survival.

Engaging communities in participatory research and action

2013 ◽  
pp. 198-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meredith Minkler ◽  
Charlotte Chang
Keyword(s):  
Community Health ◽  
Participatory Research ◽  
Community Action ◽  
Community Capacity ◽  
Building Community

After reading this chapter you will be able to define participatory research and its core principles, describe how engaging communities in participatory research and action can add value to research, while building community capacity and helping achieve action to promote community health, identify some of the challenges that arise in such work and how they may be addressed, and describe a case study that started with an important issue in the community and demonstrates core principles of CBPR, challenges faced in such work, and subsequent community action for change.

scholarly journals Community-Based Watershed Change: A Case Study in Eastern Congo

Forests ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 475
Author(s):  
Scott Sabin ◽  
Birori Dieudonne ◽  
John Mitchell ◽  
Jared White ◽  
Corey Chin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Community Action ◽  
Tree Planting ◽  
Theory Of Change ◽  
Environmental Restoration ◽  
Community Forest Management ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Early Results ◽  
Eastern Congo

Conflict and environmental degradation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are interrelated and complex. The authors conducted a case study of a community-based environmental restoration project in Eastern Congo and provide early results which suggest a link between community environmental action and multidimensional outcomes such as peace and reconciliation. The project examined in this study is based on a framework (Theory of Change) which networks communities through autonomous savings groups, churches, mosques, schools, and a community leadership network with the goal of catalyzing sustainable farming, reforestation, and community forest management. The primary project input was training, and the resulting voluntary community action included tree planting and the management of common forest areas. A mixed-methods approach was used to evaluate project results comparing two watersheds, and included a difference in differences analysis, participatory workshops, remote sensing analysis, and community activity reports. Positive change was observed in the treatment watershed in terms of ecosystem health and household economic condition. Results suggest a possible influence on peace conditions which, while fragile, offers hope for continued restorative action by communities. This study provides evidence that a community-based approach to environmental restoration may have a positive influence on multidimensional issues such as forests, watershed health, economic well-being, and peace.

scholarly journals Leading by example: A case study of the influence of principal self-efficacy on collective efficacy

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1286765 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tena M. Versland ◽  
Joanne L. Erickson ◽  
David Foo Seong Ng
Keyword(s):  
Collective Efficacy ◽  
Self Efficacy

scholarly journals The Role of Moral Outrage on the Impeachment of Garut Regent in 2012-2013

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 28-37
Author(s):  
Nur Hidayat Sardini
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
National Level ◽  
Community Action ◽  
General Factor ◽  
Short Message ◽  
Political Climate ◽  
The People ◽  
State Actors

Moral and political are two things that cannot be separated. The marriage of a regent in Garut regency, Indonesia, with an underage girl eventually leads to community action, where people demand the regent to resign from his position as a regional head. It was not even four days of marriage the regent had divorced his young wife via a short message from his own mobile phone. Therefore, the people of Garut suddenly expressed their wrath through a large-scale demonstration which pushedthe Local House of Representative immediately to process the regent’s removal. This research utilized a qualitative approach with a case-study method, the data in this research relied on the practice of in-depth interviews, observations, and documentaries. This research succeeded to observe that the general factor which underlying the action of demonstration in Garut which demanded the resignation of the regent was caused by the political climate change of democratization in the national level which also impacted Garut Regency. The national politicalclimate change increased the unconventional public participation in Garut and provided political sphere for non-state actors to establish political-involvement balance between state actors and non-state actors themselves. In other hand, the specific underlying factor on this case is the regent’s behavior which was judged as the act of dishonorable humiliation on women’s dignity, especially his speech in some national television channels. The power of this study lies on its novelty, filling in lubrication and study originality, towards the moral and ethical behavior as the new object on Social Movement.   

Leadership, Collective Efficacy and Team Performance

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 35-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shalonda K. Bradford
Keyword(s):  
Transformational Leadership ◽  
Collective Efficacy ◽  
Team Performance ◽  
Business Students ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Case Study Approach ◽  
Leadership Qualities ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
National Business

In this paper, the author examines the effect of leader attributes on the collective efficacy of a group of members of Generation Next, and the interrelation of leadership and collective efficacy on the team’s performance. A case study approach was implemented by 3 teams of business students participating in a national business competition between the years 2009-2011. Results indicate transformational leadership qualities inspire greater levels of collective efficacy. Moreover, teams demonstrating higher collective efficacy also performed better in the competition, suggesting a positive relationship between collective efficacy and team performance. Implications of these findings are discussed and a scope for future research is offered.

Urbanization and the organization of territorial cohesion – results from a comparative Danish case-study on territorial inequality and social cohesion

2022 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anja Jørgensen ◽  
Mia Arp Fallov
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Collective Efficacy ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Relational Approach ◽  
Territorial Cohesion ◽  
Corporate Social

PurposeThere is a growing importance for public facilitation of corporate social responsibility and involvement of civil organizations in securing territorial cohesion and development. In the present article, the authors focus on how we are to understand a locally sensitive organization of territorial cohesion in the Danish context. Traditional sociological concepts and standardized area-types used for administrative purposes have turned out not being very helpful in understanding the interrelation between inequality, urbanization and territorial cohesion. The authors argue for a processual and relational approach to urbanization.Design/methodology/approachThe present article is based on interview material and policy documents from three Danish case studies representing urban, suburban and rural forms of settlement. The case studies are part of a cross-European research project.FindingsThe authors show how territorial governance play a key role in the strategies of densification/de-densification facilitating shielding capacities of collective efficacy, and reversely that bottom-up innovations are crucial for the ability of territorial governance to mobilize territorial capital and mediate in effects of territorial inequality. Spatial imaginaries legitimize these efforts to organize cohesion. The spatial imaginaries work as common frame of references for the interplay between strategies of (de)densification and collective efficacy, and they activate particular balances between growth agendas and everyday life.Originality/valueThese findings represent an original perspective on how and why urbanization impact on places in a more specific and variated way than often portrayed as it highlight how social capacities tied to place might work with or against existing social, economic and cultural structures shaping territorial cohesion.

An Early Glimpse: Service Learning from an Adolescent Perspective

2000 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 115-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice W. Terry
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Community Action ◽  
Case Study Design ◽  
Creative Problem ◽  
Service Learning Projects ◽  
Gifted Adolescents ◽  
Learning Projects ◽  
Adolescent Perspective

This article examines service learning from the perspective of gifted adolescents who have participated in what I have termed Community Action service learning projects. Using a case study design, I investigated adolescents' perspectives concerning their involvement in service learning projects grounded in creative problem solving. A service learning typology based on the degrees of student involvement is described. The importance of service learning to the participants in this study is highlighted in the following themes that emerged from the data: methodology, attitudes, personal and social development, commitment, and empowerment. Implications for educators are discussed.

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