Developing Prosocial Communities Across Cultures

Developing Prosocial Communities Across Cultures

von: Forrest B. Tyler

Springer-Verlag, 2007

ISBN: 9780387714851 , 164 Seiten

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Developing Prosocial Communities Across Cultures


 

Contents

5

Preface

7

Acknowledgments

10

Definitions and Background Issues

12

1.1. Background

12

1.2. Defining a Prosocial Community

15

1.3. Characteristics of a Prosocial Community

18

1.3.1. Freedom

18

1.3.2. Unifying Functions

19

1.3.3. Complexity

21

1.3.4. The CommunityÌs Requirements

21

1.3.5. Human Dignity

24

1.3.6. Individual Prosocial Morality (Conscience)

25

1.4. Studying and Intervening in Communities

26

Psychosocial Integration: The Theoretical Framework

28

2.1. Transcultural Ethnic Validity Model

28

2.1.1. A Hypothetical Example

29

2.1.2. Individual Psychosocial Competence

31

2.1.3. Ethnic Validity

35

2.1.4. Nested Frameworks

38

2.2. Prosocial Community Model

40

2.2.1. Functional Interaction

41

2.2.2. Patterns of Interaction

42

2.2.3. Resource Collaboration/Resource Enhancement

43

2.2.4. Levels of Action

45

2.3. Integration of the Ethnic Validity and Prosocial Community Perspectives

47

The Current Situation: PsychologistsÌ Approaches to Community Change

49

3.1. Background

49

3.2. Community Mental Health/Psychology Approaches

51

3.2.1. Changing Individuals

52

3.2.2. Changing Social Systems

58

3.2.3. Interactions among Systems and People

63

3.3. Reconceptualizing Community Approaches

65

The Prosocial Effect of Changing One Aspect of a Community

67

4.1. Changing Individuals to Solve Community Problems

67

4.2. Organized Assaults on System Injustices and Inequities

70

4.2.1. Racial and Ethnic Minorities

70

4.2.2. A Special Case: The ClarksÌ Vision and PsychologyÌs Response

73

4.2.3. Addressing Inequities in the Status and Lives of Women

77

4.3. The Creation of Alternative Settings

80

4.3.1. External Relations

81

4.3.2. Leadership

81

4.3.3. The Planning Process

82

4.3.4. Group Dynamics: Conflict vs. Commitment

82

4.4. Comments

82

The Prosocial Effect of Coordinating Change in Two Aspects of a Community

86

5.1. Prosocial Community Projects Managed by External Consultants

87

5.1.1. Integration in a Productivity-Oriented Work Context

87

5.1.2. Protecting a PRSC from External Sanctions and Neutralizing Opponents

88

5.2. The Prosocial Effect when Consultants Become Involved

94

5.2.1. Resolving a Major Community Conflict

95

5.2.2. Creating an Alternative Setting

98

5.3. Relevant Efforts

103

5.4. Comments

104

A Guide for Establishing Prosocial Communities

106

6.1. Three Levels of Action

107

6.1.1. Social Action, Social Planning, and Locality Development

107

6.1.2. Prosocial Community Processes

113

6.2. Creating Prosocial Communities

115

6.2.1. Assumptions Related to Prosocial Communities

116

6.2.2. Comments

122

Questscope: A Comprehensive Prosocial Community Program

124

7.1. History and Evolution of Questscope as a Prosocial Community

124

7.2. Program Development Process

127

7.3. QuestscopeÌs Program Elements

129

7.3.1. Administrative Structures

130

7.3.2. Collaborative Structures

130

7.3.3. Programmatic Structures

131

7.3.4. Program Implementation

137

7.4. Facilitating Prosocial Transformations

141

7.5. The Broader Prosocial Community: Prosocially Oriented Programs and Institutions

150

Biographical Sketch of Curtis N. Rhodes, Jr. PhD

153

References

154

Subject Index

160

Author Index

165