ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a rudimentary conceptual “geography” of the different macro practice types and the philosophies that shape their practitioners’ behavior. Micro context assumes a very small system, perhaps a dyad of "worker-client," where rights and obligations are vested in the individuals. These behaviors are at best modified by those few ethical principles that invoke "social responsibility". Community planners often concern themselves with the use of physical resources used in social contexts: land, housing, industry, transport, water, energy, and public health. Community development as a practice probably sits somewhat left of the realm of Community Planning. Community developers address social, environmental, and economic issues in the environments of their focus. The organizer in the perspective sees the rights and obligations of the Human Rights framework as the fulcrum for community discussion and problem-solving. Social movements build from diverse collections of individual activists; advocacy organizations, local, national, or international organizations and multiple spokespersons.
