| Abstract: | This review provides a comprehensive and integrated framework for the processes of social action and empowerment at the level of the individual, the group, and the community. Concepts from personality, social, community and organizational psychology are used as the basis for understanding the complex processes involved in empowerment and social action. The author found that group and organizations will interact more effectively if shared goals and values are clearly articulated and understood at all social levels. Empowerment and social action are organized and integrated in meaningful and useful ways that open up new ways of looking at social action and social organization. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
