Four cornerstones provide the foundation of community building. Among them are:
A. Transformation, which holds that human life is only interested in immediate demands.
B. Praxiology, whose central theme is that people act purposefully to satisfy their needs and to improve their future and that change most effectively proceeds from an interactive process of reflection and action.
C. Appreciative Inquiry, which operates on the principle that in any situation there are problems that need to be fixed and that the search for problems is the most effective way for promoting action and satisfaction.
D. Community development, which relies on offering the resources and expertise of members from outside the community who can maintain objectivity in serving community members.
Question 2
When working to promote community change it is helpful to remember that
A. Standing disagreements, jealousies, and rivalries will disappear when a group or community undertakes a project.
B. When faced with a crisis a community will become very resistant to change.
C. Working relationships require communication, trust, and mutual interest.
D. Efforts to build strong relationships among members of a community or organization end up being more of a distraction than they are worth.
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