LESSON 6-Identifying-Community-power-actors.pptx

LESSON 6-Identifying-Community-power-actors.pptx

1. Identifying Community power actors

2. Four Methods of Community Power Structure

3. 1. Positional Method - This involves making and updating a list of power actors in positions of authority in local government and in leading economic , cultural, religious, and voluntary organizations.

4. Steps involved in positional method: Determining relevant positions in the community. Collecting incumbents’ names. Receiving and updating the list.

5. 2. Reputational Method -This involves the selection of many knowledgeable community citizens who can provide a list of power actors.The identified power actors would then be ranked according to their reputation in influencing community affairs.

6. Steps in reputational method:

7. Making a list of knowledgeable community citizens. Developing interview questions and a pilot test. Interviewing knowledgeable community citizens. Deciding the criteria on who among the citizens in the list can be part of the community power actor pool( such as knowing how many times a certain power actor actor has been mentioned by one or more knowledgeable community citizens) Repeating the process regularly .

8. 3. Decision-making Method -This involves tracing the history of a collective decision concerning at least one issue area.

9. Steps involve in the decision-making Method Selecting representative community decision to focus. Including relevant decision areas Creating a documents review guide Developing interview questions and a pilot test. Conducting documents review and interviewing kwowledgeable community citizens.

10. d .Developing interview questions and a pilot test. e.Conducting documents review and interviewing kwowledgeable community citizens. f. Tracing the decision-making process g. Determining leaders in decisions h. Reviewing new community decisions of interest.

11. 4. Social Participation Method -This involves developing a list of leaders and active participants in committee works in key community voluntary associations.

12. Steps involved in the social participation method:

13. Selecting key community voluntary associations Obtaining a list of association participants Comparing and determining overlaps in officership and committee work Assigning a scoring system of social participation Listing power actors with the highest degree of social participation Updating regularly