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==Co-optation== | |||
Survival | |||
relation to state | |||
The present state of capital has led to difficult situations, high levels of unemployment, and precarious work. Downsizing of state, has resulted in broad cuts to social services. | |||
Dependency on State money.: Increase in bureaucratization, professionalization, and specialization in order to comply with state. | |||
State is opting out collective responsibility, attacking concept of universality, and democratic rights and putting the burden of social costs on individuals and community. So community groups as alternatives to institutions without the financing. | |||
So emphasis is put on service providing, immediate needs instead of organizing mass-based. Militant work replaced by voluntarism/specialization/expertism. No longer defending the exploited and oppressed and trying to socially change the structures that upholds such oppression and exploitation | |||
=Theory= | =Theory= | ||
Theory needs to be understood as an attempt to make sense of encounters, patterns, and regularities of the world so to predict outcomes of actions, and a better understanding of the world. (taken from Keith Popple's Analysing Community Work: Its Theory and Practice). | Theory needs to be understood as an attempt to make sense of encounters, patterns, and regularities of the world so to predict outcomes of actions, and a better understanding of the world. (taken from Keith Popple's Analysing Community Work: Its Theory and Practice). | ||