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Pragmatics Of Community Organization Lee, Bill Publisher:  Common Act Press, Mississauga, Canada Year Published:  1986   Pages:  172pp   ISBN:  0-921159-00-5 Library of Congress Number:  HV41.L43 1986   Dewey:  361.8 Resource Type:  Book Information on how to plan action, how to organize meetings, how to train participants for action, how to negotiate, and how to end a particular exercise in community organization Abstract:  PRAGMATICS OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION defines community organization as "intervention which through the facilitation of collective action on the part of its clientele, seeks to maximize the ability of disadvantaged people to effect (sic) their environment so that they are able to meet their psychological, social, and material needs. This intervention involves the creatiion of representative organizations which can develop the power and resources to change inadequate institutions and laws or build new ones that will be more responsive to their needs and those of all human beings." Community organizing is seen as involving three major themes: 1. Its purpose is to change power relationships. 2. The changes being sought are not detrimental to the legitimate human needs of any other group. 3. It involves collective participation in decision-making. The model used in PRAGMATICS OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZAITON is an academic one, occasionally relying heavily on socialogical jargon. At the same time, the book contains useful practical information on how to plan action, how to organize meetings, how to train participants for action, how to negotiate, and how to end a particular exercise in community organization. It stresses the importance of addressing the issue of power in community organizing, but in fact fails to actually do so itself, lending the book a vague and incomplete air. Topics Change Citizens' Participation Class Conflict/Class Struggle Communities Community Development Community Empowerment Community Leadership Community Organizing Democracy Democratic Values Facilitation Facilitators Group Facilitation Identity Ideology Income Disparities Manuals & Handbooks for Activists & Organizers Meetings Political Action Power Social Work

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