Problem
Delusions over responsibility for community improvements
Other Names:
Mistaken expectations of external provision of servicesInflexible attitudes toward community social services
Unfulfilled service expectations
Incidence:
Communities expect the educated to provide local leadership and to fill the new jobs, but are not yet prepared to alter rural care patterns to accommodate urban systems at the less prestigious level (garbage collection, for example). Those who are educated outside their local communities (usually the younger men) tend not to return to diversify community expertise, but instead they either work away from their neighbourhood, coming home only at night and at weekends, or they leave it completely. This leaves the community looking forward to urban services and new industry with few people available to take on the new jobs. Broader Problems:
Shrinking community lifeUnrealistic expectationsUnshared mutual responsibilityDeteriorating rural community cooperationCollapsed tension between care and responsibilityRestrictive effects of external capital on developmentIncomplete understanding of new societal service systems Narrower Problems:
Unfeasible medical expectationsInadequate domestic refuse disposal Related Problems:
Ineffective delivery of basic human resource servicesRestricted delivery of essential services to rural communities Aggravates:
Declining volunteer servicesThwarted community enthusiasmDisputed provisions for floodsUnprofessional building managementBreakdown of local community cohesionInadequate response to societal needsDisorganized liaison with formal supportUndefined social programme responsibilitySelf-defeating style of community planningUnderutilization of potential in local communitiesParalyzing patterns between villages and administrative structures Strategies:
Fulfilling service expectationsTaking responsibility for community improvementsProviding flexible attitudes toward community social servicesProviding services externally Subject(s):
Society → ForeignSociety → Communities
Social Activity → Services
Social Activity → Social services
Psychology → Psychology
Individuation → Psychoanalysis
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Problem Type:
F: Fuzzy exceptional problems Date of last update
11.02.1997 – 00:00 CET