UU150 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Anthropomorphism, Social Science
In order to promote community
participation and development, it is the
task of the animator to bring these
factions together, encourage tolerance
and team spirit, and obtain consensus
decisions. For you to promote social
change in a community, it is necessary to
know how that system operates, and
therefore how it will respond to changes,
and to your interventions. Just as an
engineer (an applied physical scientist)
must know how an engine operates, the
community facilitator (an applied social
scientist) must know how a community
operates.
To know how a community operates one
must not anthropomorphise a
community. To "anthropomorphise"
means to assume and ascribe human
characteristics to a non human thing
(e.g., thinking that ducks and bears have
"families" when "family" is a human
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