Lesson 3

Question 1

What are the three assumptions to social system?

Answer 1

that social system boundaries are geographically determinable;
that the units comprising communities are either humans or families;
that cooperation based on common goals underlies community organization.

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Question 2

What are the four components in the social system model?

Answer 2

1. Person
2. Family
3. Community
4. State

Question 3

responsibility for helping improve circumstances and situations. The agency or institution where we are part of is this system mainly because of the facilitation of its goals.

Answer 3

Change Agent System

Question 4

The one that prompts the change

Answer 4

Change Agent System

Question 5

individuals, organizations or community elements that need changing;

Answer 5

Target System

Question 6

consist of those who will benefit directly from the change. It may well initiate the change by bringing it to your attention.

Answer 6

Client System

Question 7

similar to target system, more pronounced that those benefiting from change is direct beneficiaries or partners

Answer 7

Client System

Question 8

those individuals or elements that will carry out the effort to cause change

Answer 8

Action System

Question 9

it is the state of being one. In analyzing the community, one looks into its total personality and makes an impression of it.

Answer 9

Wholeness

Question 10

It is what the system wants to achieve. It is the end towards which the community wants to channel or direct its efforts or commitment.

Answer 10

Objective

Question 11

These are the functional elements that are interconnected together with a given system. These are the parts or elements that have something to do with the whole community.

Answer 11

Components

Question 12

What is a good strategy in being objective?

Answer 12

Good Strategy: ask local agencies/municipalities what they really want to achieve then align your efforts to that which they want to do.

Question 13

it is the functional arrangements of the parts within the system. The arrangement shows how the community is run and how the parts functionally interrelate with one another.

Answer 13

Structure

Question 14

it is the component or unit in the structure of the system one would focus his analysis. This component is temporarily isolated from the whole system.

Answer 14

System Levels

Question 15

a type of relationship in which the two parts enter into exchange for something they need for survival.

Answer 15

Interdependence

Question 16

What is stated in the EDCOM 2 Report under interdependence?

Answer 16

Interdependence - EDCOM 2 Report we are already losing children from being malnourished and performance in terms of academic

Question 17

a process by which an authority represented by management regulates or channels the contribution of each of the components of the system toward a purpose.

Answer 17

Coordination

Question 18

the state wherein the component parts of the system are simultaneously and continuously interrelating and interacting with each other.

Answer 18

Processes

Question 19

Three systems where Community as a
Social-ecological System

Answer 19

Socio-ecological system (Gallopin et al 1989)
Social-ecological systems (Berkes and Folke, 1998)
Coupled human-environment systems
(Turner et al 2003)

Question 20

is a term that refers to when one party in a transaction is in possession of more information than the other.

Answer 20

Information Assymetry

Question 21

Four Primary Systems

Answer 21

1. Change Agent System
2. Target System
3. Client System
4. Action System

Question 22

Eight Anlyzations of the community as a social system

Answer 22

1. Wholeness
2. Objective
3. Components
4. Structure
5. System Levels
6. Interdependence
7. Coordination
8. Processes
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