The main purpose of this review is the fundamental similarities and differeneses between community development and community organization. The results are following:
1. Both, community development and community organization may gradually take on a n...
The main purpose of this review is the fundamental similarities and differeneses between community development and community organization. The results are following:
1. Both, community development and community organization may gradually take on a new look and wider meanings and are clearly similar in many respects.
2. Community organization is social invention designed to deal with the problems resulting from the industrial revolution and has been largely concerned with attempts to solve social problems and correct social imbalances within institutional structure, the status quo. But, community development is one means of inducing social change through grass-roots effort or grass-roots democracy.
3. Both, the community organization and community development may tend to flow together to effect some new systhesis under the name the one or the other.
4. But, in any case, the unique values of the community development approach must not be forsaken.