COMMENTS ON FOUR CASE STUDIES OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION.

The article focuses on community organization. It informs that the poor school, the foul garbage, and the restricted welfare services were all familiar blights. Inertia, fear, irresponsibility, lack of imagination, and the simple fact that no one had seriously believed that anything could be done had combined to produce a mood of fatalism. Community organization is more than a matter of structure, such as the delineation of functions, the definition of roles, the designation of offices and the formulation of by-laws for the regulation of these elements. Instead community organization is a dynamic process of community problem solving imbedded in interplay of forces, interests and resistances with enough machinery to make the process manageable. Many thoughtful observers are convinced that the impersonal conditions of modern urban living often lead to an impoverishment of social life for the individual and that as a reaction against this impoverishment there is a great drive for a satisfying togetherness, especially in our large cities.