Identify a Social Action Group in Your Community

question 14

Essay

Identify a social action group in your community. Observe the extent to which members are involved and active. To what extent do the leaders and other active participants help all members feel empowered to work toward a particular group goal? If you were the leader, how would you have run the meeting differently to help empower members?

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Definitions:

Grades

A system of evaluating or ranking academic performance, typically represented by letters or numbers.

Anticipate Consequences

The act of predicting and considering potential outcomes of actions or decisions.

Problem Solving

Moving from the point at which we initially realize that we have a difficulty which requires our attention to that point where we regard the difficulty as being sufficiently resolved for the current time and circumstances.

Expectations

Beliefs or anticipations about the way something should be or how future events will unfold.