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Assignment:
Scott Myers-Lipton, CHANGE! A Student Guide to Social Action,
Address two areas: (1) ideas and concepts from the readings (book and reader), and (2) how these ideas and concepts connect to your campaign.
1. Explain materialist factors, and then explore how materialist factors have affected your issue.
2. Explain idealistic factors, and then explore how idealistic factors have affected your issue. In addition, what value, belief or ideology provides the best frame for your issue?
3. How might this knowledge of materialist and idealistic factors help your social action group win your campaign?
4. Explain the difference between the women-centered and Alinsky models of community organizing? Are there any similarities between the two models?
5. What updates have been made to the Alinsky model, and what organizations have made them?
6. What did you learn from the women-centered and Alinsky models of community organizing that you can directly apply to your campaign?
7. Explain functionalism and conflict theory, with a focus on how each examines the role of education in society. Do you agree with the functionalist or conflict theory perspective? Please explain your reasoning.
8. How is critical education theory similar to, but different from, conflict theory? What assumptions are shared by both critical education theory and service-learning? How is critical education theory a way out of the cave and toward the light?
9. What theory (i.e., functionalism, conflict theory, or critical education theory) best explains your collegiate educational experience?
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