The Interconnectedness Affects Social Change:

To change something in one cultural dimension not only requires changes in other dimensions, it causes changes in other dimensions. That is why social impact assessment should be made of all projects, large and small. As you become more e perienced, you will begin to see some changes that follow as a result of introductions of new ways of doing things. The more you can predict such changes, the more you can be prepared for them. The more you can predict changes in each dimension, the more you can modify your actions so that the community might be more li!ely to change in ways you desire. "emember, howe#er, that you are not a social engineer, and can not precisely determine how a community will respond to your wor!. See: $reser#ing Culture.

Conclusion% The &obili'er &ust (nderstand Community:

To be more effecti#e as a mobili'er, to empower or strengthen communities, you need to !now the nature of communities, and how they beha#e. Communities are social or cultural organi'ations, and, as such, are characteri'ed by the si cultural dimensions. communities are not the same as human indi#iduals, but grow and change by their own sets of principles. The !ey to understanding these characteristics and principles is to recogni'e that si dimensions of culture, and their inter)relationships. The inter) connections between these cultural*+, dimensions are neither simple nor easy to predict.

The animator must be aware that they e ist, and continually encourage obser#ation, analysis, sharing of ideas, reading, and attending lectures or seminars. -y wor!ing with communities, the animator must learn more and more about their culture, and the dynamics of their cultural dimensions. .hat is community/ The answer is neither simple nor quic!ly defined. It is important, howe#er, for e#ery acti#ist to understand.

&ore about community:

The Sociology of Communities%

 Community Characteristics% Community *0ictionary,% $reliminary 0ata *"esearch,% Social 1rgani'ation.

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As sciences, there is no difference between sociology and anthropology. They study the same things and they use the same scientific methods. Their difference lies in the different histories. Anthropology owes its origin to 4uropean imperialism and the dilettante collection of e otic customs and practices by wealthy aristocrats loo!ing for interesting hobbies to brea! their boredom. Sociology owes its origin to the industrial re#olution, the growth of huge differences between owners of factories and those who had nothing to sell but their labour. The study of class differences was powered by an interest in mitigating, if not remo#ing, the abuses and misuses of those power differences. Anthropology *the word, is formed by the welding of two 5atin words, while sociology is formed by the illegitimate tac!ing on of a 6ree! word to a 5atin word.
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This is not a theoretical paper, but one aimed at introducing the mobili'er to the idea that a community is a socio)cultural entity beyond a collection of indi#iduals, and that understanding of that is necessary to guide the mobili'ation inter#ention as a factor of social change. &ar , for e ample, thought that the two underlying cultural dimensions, technological and economic dimensions, change according to some sort of a dialectic *ie from agricultural to industrial,, and the four other dimensions followed in adapting to those materialist changes. .eber, in contrast, thought that the upper two dimensions, #alues *ideology, and perceptions *beliefs, were the first to change *as in the $rotestant "eformation,, and the other four dimensions changed as a result *ie the Industrial "e#olution,. Today we do not see the interrelationships between dimensions quite so simplistically *and there is considerable debate about interpretation,, but still recogni'e that they relate to each other. See: &ar and .eber.