Average social class level for the block as a cause of residents desire for block participation. Can create a block average. Spacial position as a cause of residents desire for block participation, and sense of involvement in the block. Rhetoric of SCR shapes the strategies of the organization.
Rhetoric facilitates certain types of actions, events, interaction styles, relationships, etc.
Community participation may be more important for those whose resources are fewer. Through tape recordings and notes of focus groups gathered according to common class, race, and gender characteristics, the meanings of community participation can be understood. By combining these data with other data on how the life circumstances vary between these different social structural positions, the meaning and importance of community participation can be interpretted.