A social center is a community-based social information and entertainment institution. When it reaches a more experienced structure, it is an informal social group, which already aims to be a form of organizational learning for simple projects and even, in this way, an adaptation or therapy through socialization. It may have its origins in the 'people's house' of the popular type or in the 'casino' of the middle and upper class type. There are other self-managed specialized entertainment institutions such as clubs and others, depending on the ages of the users, such as senior centers or senior centers, which have the same purposes with greater or lesser emphasis on entertainment or social information of a welfare nature.
If the social center is municipal or official, they appoint a director, who hires social workers, as many as the budget allows, who will respond to the prior feasibility and marketing study carried out by the planners. The activities are offered in a calendar for each school period or course and are not fixed. The teachers or monitors or volunteers are hired or recruited for specific work or workshops or visits to museums, excursions, etc., which have the character and expression of popular culture. Registration prices are zero and for minimum activities, almost at cost.
Other features
It normally includes as fixed services a bar "Bar (establishment)", dining room, library, assembly hall), gym, exhibition hall, etc. The objectives are therefore defined by its facilities to serve the social policy of the center as services to the community and directed by monitors with a very participatory nature, they can even acquire the character of informal communities of practice. Some activities such as computer workshops (use of computers), aerobics, hiking, conferences on cinema and other arts usually have high quality and follow-up by the neighborhood residents. in cities or town in rural areas.
It has no political or religious affiliation, it does not discriminate, it is free in its activities. It must have living rooms for gatherings and conversations with friends and as a means of identification with the group, although its physical materialization varies according to the ethnic group: Latinos, Anglo-Saxons, etc., who are more or less communicative or are so in different ways. It should also be considered with what cultural background and age people arrive at retirement. This will influence whether or not you go to the center and the type of activities preferred.
Participatory neighborhood workshops
Introduction
A social center is a community-based social information and entertainment institution. When it reaches a more experienced structure, it is an informal social group, which already aims to be a form of organizational learning for simple projects and even, in this way, an adaptation or therapy through socialization. It may have its origins in the 'people's house' of the popular type or in the 'casino' of the middle and upper class type. There are other self-managed specialized entertainment institutions such as clubs and others, depending on the ages of the users, such as senior centers or senior centers, which have the same purposes with greater or lesser emphasis on entertainment or social information of a welfare nature.
If the social center is municipal or official, they appoint a director, who hires social workers, as many as the budget allows, who will respond to the prior feasibility and marketing study carried out by the planners. The activities are offered in a calendar for each school period or course and are not fixed. The teachers or monitors or volunteers are hired or recruited for specific work or workshops or visits to museums, excursions, etc., which have the character and expression of popular culture. Registration prices are zero and for minimum activities, almost at cost.
Other features
It normally includes as fixed services a bar "Bar (establishment)", dining room, library, assembly hall), gym, exhibition hall, etc. The objectives are therefore defined by its facilities to serve the social policy of the center as services to the community and directed by monitors with a very participatory nature, they can even acquire the character of informal communities of practice. Some activities such as computer workshops (use of computers), aerobics, hiking, conferences on cinema and other arts usually have high quality and follow-up by the neighborhood residents. in cities or town in rural areas.
It has no political or religious affiliation, it does not discriminate, it is free in its activities. It must have living rooms for gatherings and conversations with friends and as a means of identification with the group, although its physical materialization varies according to the ethnic group: Latinos, Anglo-Saxons, etc., who are more or less communicative or are so in different ways. It should also be considered with what cultural background and age people arrive at retirement. This will influence whether or not you go to the center and the type of activities preferred.
These organizations can launch:
• - Cultural activities: concerts, exhibitions, theater, cinema or video.
• - Courses and workshops.
• - Thematic talks and conferences, generally with social content (environmentalism, feminism, political and economic analysis, unionism...).
• - Rehearsal spaces for musical, theatrical, artistic groups, etc.
• - Spaces for the production of crafts.
• - Assemblies and spaces for social movements, NGOs and advocacy campaigns.
• - Organization of counter-information media.
• - Implementation of editorial initiatives, whether literary, musical, videos, merchandising, etc.
• - Spaces for the sale of alternative, ideological editorial material, etc.
• - Alternative restaurants, at reduced prices, often seeking to implement ecological eating methods, such as vegetarianism, veganism, organic farming, recycling of food wasted by the food industry...
• - Activities of alternative proposals in general, basically within ecological and assembly lines, seeking to experiment with ways of life and work that distance themselves from a dependence on state structures and the lines of work organization marked by economic liberalism.
• - Etc.
Issues
The center is accepted by the community and they do not have a director, who is a budget manager and in some cases his ideology is to keep his position. Attendance at the center depends greatly on the type of habitat and may have very little response from young people and a large response from older people, depending on the ethnic group, cultural level, habits and availability of other similar institutions in the community.
In any case, the barometer of acceptance with a commitment response is the same as that received by other social institutions, popular libraries or health centers or outpatient clinics, churches, public parks and other social spaces. Which suggests that the public has not received enough information or has a low cultural and civic level and has not been well aware of the objectives and needs covered for some of the specialized functions in each different social space. It is also possible that organizational development is not well managed by the director. Taking advantage of the generic Social Center institution - for any type of public of any age - is an offer that the municipality makes for free, but it costs money and it is something that people must grasp as theirs, which also gives meaning to the activities carried out; It is also a cultural fact, something that can be learned and that receives values of common use. These premises are how it should be planned and promoted.
In communities where there are no centers for the elderly, it is the social center, the library, the church and even the outpatient clinic that 'automatically assume these services' for these users and become recipients of that population due to a phenomenon of isomorphism. Also in this type specialized by age, perceptions are different depending on the country: only older people go to centers created as a standard, for everyone, and in others, a common center has not even been thought of and only one for the elderly exists. In the cities, the squatters respond to this same mechanism and create their own institutions, squatting empty buildings and creating the squatted social center, which they did not have, as a youth center, for their popular culture activities.
• - House of Culture.
• - Alternative society.
• - Infoshop.
These organizations can launch:
• - Cultural activities: concerts, exhibitions, theater, cinema or video.
• - Courses and workshops.
• - Thematic talks and conferences, generally with social content (environmentalism, feminism, political and economic analysis, unionism...).
• - Rehearsal spaces for musical, theatrical, artistic groups, etc.
• - Spaces for the production of crafts.
• - Assemblies and spaces for social movements, NGOs and advocacy campaigns.
• - Organization of counter-information media.
• - Implementation of editorial initiatives, whether literary, musical, videos, merchandising, etc.
• - Spaces for the sale of alternative, ideological editorial material, etc.
• - Alternative restaurants, at reduced prices, often seeking to implement ecological eating methods, such as vegetarianism, veganism, organic farming, recycling of food wasted by the food industry...
• - Activities of alternative proposals in general, basically within ecological and assembly lines, seeking to experiment with ways of life and work that distance themselves from a dependence on state structures and the lines of work organization marked by economic liberalism.
• - Etc.
Issues
The center is accepted by the community and they do not have a director, who is a budget manager and in some cases his ideology is to keep his position. Attendance at the center depends greatly on the type of habitat and may have very little response from young people and a large response from older people, depending on the ethnic group, cultural level, habits and availability of other similar institutions in the community.
In any case, the barometer of acceptance with a commitment response is the same as that received by other social institutions, popular libraries or health centers or outpatient clinics, churches, public parks and other social spaces. Which suggests that the public has not received enough information or has a low cultural and civic level and has not been well aware of the objectives and needs covered for some of the specialized functions in each different social space. It is also possible that organizational development is not well managed by the director. Taking advantage of the generic Social Center institution - for any type of public of any age - is an offer that the municipality makes for free, but it costs money and it is something that people must grasp as theirs, which also gives meaning to the activities carried out; It is also a cultural fact, something that can be learned and that receives values of common use. These premises are how it should be planned and promoted.
In communities where there are no centers for the elderly, it is the social center, the library, the church and even the outpatient clinic that 'automatically assume these services' for these users and become recipients of that population due to a phenomenon of isomorphism. Also in this type specialized by age, perceptions are different depending on the country: only older people go to centers created as a standard, for everyone, and in others, a common center has not even been thought of and only one for the elderly exists. In the cities, the squatters respond to this same mechanism and create their own institutions, squatting empty buildings and creating the squatted social center, which they did not have, as a youth center, for their popular culture activities.