PSYC 3310 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Kurt Lewin, Popular Education, Mass Mobilization
3 Feb 2014
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Checkoway (1995) proposed six different strategies for achieving such change: 1. This describes temporary movements in which large numbers of people are amassed to bring attention to particular societal issues or problems: 2. Social action strives to create powerful organizations at the community level, often through the development and activities of. This strategy aims to get citizens involved in their communities: 4. This usually involves lobbying or applying pressure on public officials to pass laws or influence social policies: 5. Educating and disseminating information to community members can be an important strategy for changing attitudes and beliefs and possibly even behaviors: 6. This refers to a process whereby people provide services to their own local community, which serves the dual function of empowering community members and providing needed services. The idea behind social action is that by organizing you can stimulate collective action in the community that generates power to create change. Community psychologists place importance on empirical grounding.
