The work of community change is often the work of small groups. In order for small groups to be effective
A. Disagreement among members is suppressed and avoided and quick compromises are used to eliminate arguing.
B. It is necessary to recognize that the group is operating on both the task (or goal) level and the relationship (or maintenance level) at the same time.
C. Recognize that everyone thinks that things are as important, or good, or bad as you do.
D. Just let meetings flow according to whatever any member wants to talk about.
Question 2
The general stages of organizational development
A. Usually begin with a successful action that shows the members that they have everything they really need to succeed.
B. Include loss of energy, loss of members, and floundering as a normal stage.
C. Need to be completed with the original members, recognizing that new members do not have enough history for effective involvement.
D. Must continue to create new work; the work of the organization is never really done.
The intermediate-disturbance hypothesis of community organization.
Copepods, from Ernst Haeckel's 1904 work Kunstformen der Natur
Functional Groups of Vitamin C
Climate Change
Active transport: Absorption Methods in the Small Intestine
A very small sampling of organisms in an arctic food web on land.