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Community Participation and Involement in Social Actions

Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences

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Title Community Participation and Involement in Social Actions
 
Creator ALEXIU, Teodor Mircea; Associate Professor, Department of Social Work,
West University, Timişoara, Romania
LAZĂR, Theofild-Andrei; Assistant Professor, Department of Social Work,
West University, Timişoara, Romania
BACIU, Elena-Loreni; Assistant Professor, Department of Social Work,
West University, Timişoara, Romania
 
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Description The article explores the topic of community participation as means not only for an efficient use of resources, but also as an instrument for increasing social solidarity, especially among citizens of rural communities, deprived of access to services that usually the inhabitants of urban communities take for “granted”. In an era of decentralization, where the delivery of services (especially social services) is based on the subsidiarity principle, community members have to rely more on themselves and their neighbors, than on the help from the state. The paper also presents the results of a study developed in two rural communities from Timiş County, Romania. The study approaches the connection between community participation and involvement in social actions under three dimensions of the community: the remoteness of the village from a major city, the extent of the first level of community participation, and the level of social involvement. The findings about the relationship between community participation and involvement in social actions show another type of connection then the initial hypothesis. Some possible explanations about these findings are presented in this article.
 
Publisher Babes Bolyai University
 
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Date 2011-06-01
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Peer-reviewed Article
 
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Identifier http://rtsa.ro/tras/index.php/tras/article/view/280
 
Source Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences; 2011: Issue No. 33 E/June; 5-22
18422845
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://rtsa.ro/tras/index.php/tras/article/view/280/273
 
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