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Work and community
Author(s) -
Price Richard H.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
american journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.113
H-Index - 112
eISSN - 1573-2770
pISSN - 0091-0562
DOI - 10.1007/bf00923256
Subject(s) - health psychology , community psychology , work (physics) , action (physics) , identity (music) , sociology , social psychology , sense of community , psychology , public relations , environmental ethics , public health , political science , medicine , mechanical engineering , philosophy , physics , nursing , quantum mechanics , engineering , acoustics
Conclusion I have argued that research and action in the world of work can be a central concern and a major opportunity for community psychologists. Work is central to well being and identity. It is an arena of rapid and turbulent social change where our values are expressed and lived out. Furthermore, work is not a separate life domain, but interpenetrates family and community life. Work is a source of the psychological sense of community and can be made more so. Experiences at work can spill over to family and community and vice versa. Recognizing the myriad paths of this interdependence is an ecological insight that has the possibility of real consequences for well being in our communities. We have only to act on our insight.