This document discusses community dynamics, which involves both integrative and disintegrative forces that influence how communities develop and change over time. It focuses on participative groups within communities and how subgroups form and function. It also discusses concepts like minority groups, gender empowerment, and integrative thinking, which is a process combining intuition, reason, and imagination to address problems in a holistic way. The overall document provides an overview of key sociological concepts relating to community development, group dynamics, and social change.

2.  Community – a group of People
 Dynamics - Self-Motivated Person, Active
Person, Energetic Person, known as
“Dynamics for Development of the
Community”

3.  Community-Dynamics is the process of
change and development within communities
.
 Community Dynamics which strive to bring
about positive social change through
community-based programming

4.  Community Dynamics is here to work with
community to think creatively and act
strategically so that community can achieve
their goals.
 At Community Dynamics, believes that,
creative and sustainable programming that
works to raise the quality of living for those
most vulnerable to poverty and exploitation.

5.  Integrative Forces
 Disintegrative Forces
 Participative group and groupism
 Functions of sub groups
 Minority groups
 Gender and empowerment

6.  Integrative Thinking is a field in Applied Mind
Science which was originated by Graham
Douglas in 1986.
 He describes Integrative Thinking as the
process of integrating intuition, reason and
imagination in a human mind with a view to
developing a holistic continuum of strategy,
tactics, action, review and evaluation for
addressing a problem in any field.

7.  A problem may be defined as the difference
between what one has and what one wants.
 Integrative Thinking as described may be
learned by applying the SOARA (Satisfying,
Optimum, Achievable Results Ahead)

8.  "disintegrative" processes are therefore seen
as "positive," whereas people who fail to go
through positive disintegration may remain
for their entire lives in a state of "primary
integration."

9.  "Participative group is known by many names
including
 shared leadership,
 Community empowerment,
 Community involvement,
 participative decision-making,
(Steinheider, B., Bayerl, P.S. &
Wuestewald)

10.  the tendency to think and act as members of
a group
 Is the concept which makes everyone to feel
 Empathy
 Sympathy
 we feeling
 Goal achievement

11.  A group formed of a subset of members
drawn from a larger parent group.
 Subgroups are not autonomous; though
members of the parent group may choose to
join a subgroup rather than be assigned,
 membership in a subgroup is ultimately
controlled by the parent group and it's owner

12.  Subset of members drawn from a larger
parent group
 a user joins a group and is put into a smaller
group (ex. committees, teams), which might
have access to resources that the larger
group has

13.  Work towards goal achievement
 Motivate the members
 Organise meeting with the members
 Organise meeting with the external agents
 Liaisoning with government and others

14.  A minority is a sociological category within a
demographic
 those who don’t hold the majority of
positions of social power in a society.

15.  Gender empowerment is conceived as a
process by which women can overcome many
of the hurdles that they face such as
education, work status, employment
opportunities, health care, social security,
position in decision making by virtue of their
gender.

16.  Gender empowerment veritably implies
empowerment of women to do away with
“Subordination” or “Discrimination” and
“Injustice” done to them in male dominated
society.