1. uncertainty
2. asymmetric information
3. large numbers of dispersed actors

• refers to:
  • connections among individuals
  • interactions that enable people to build communities, commit themselves to each other, and knit a social fabric

• civic engagement
• trust
• civic responsibility
• power of community members
• networks and connections
• collective community vitality

How civically engaged are people in your community?

• Have you donated your time to volunteer work in your community in the last 12 months?
• Have you attended a community parade or celebration in the past 12 months?
• Have you contacted a community or public official in the last 12 months?

 

• Do you trust and feel safe in your community

  • How often do you feel safe walking down

    the street at night in your community?

     

     

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    Overall, can you trust your local government to do what is right?

• Do citizens feel a sense of civic duty?
  • you lost your wallet with 200 dollars. How many people int he cummunity would return it?
  • a terrible storm hit your community and left people homeless. How many people would you help out in any way?

• are you making a difference
  • Have you helped plan or lead a meeting or activity
  • Do you or your friends think you can impact where you live and make it a better place
  • have you ever served on a committee or as a club officer in the past 12 months?

• Have you been involved in any recreational, sports, garden, investment or hobby group in the last 12 months?

   

   

• Have you been involved in a youth or parents’ organization in the past 12 months?

• How often do people who move away from the community to find better opportunities
• Are those of different races and ethnicities welcomed and involved together in the same groups, activities, and organizations

• health outcome focus
  • march of dimes
  • anti-tobacco
• indirectly health focused
  • Womens movement
  • labor movement
  • civil rights
  • gay rights
  • indigenous peoples movement
• intermediate
  • prohibition
  • MADD
  • environment

• improve social order
• increase social cohesion/capital
• increase access to basic needs/essential services
• increase access to health, education, social services
• increase awareness/action on particular health issues (or informed health choices by members of movement)
• increase awareness/action on other disparities with direct and indirect health consequences
• increase voice in distribution of health resources
• increase voice in distribution of resources with health consequences

• women were not allowed to vote
• women had to submit to lawas when they had no voice in their formation
• married women had no property rights
• husband had legal power over and responsibility for their wives to the extent that they coud imprison or beat them for impurity
• divorce and child custody laws favored men
• women had to pay property tax without representation
• most occupations were closed to women and if they were open, they were paid less than men
• could not enter professions like law and medicine
• women had no means to gain education
• women were not allowed to participate in the affaris of the church, with few exceptions

• ideals vs. inefficiency
• order vs. disorder
• participation vs. disaffection