empowerment

An individual and a group acquire a feeling of control to own life, and I am organized and am social, and it is generally defined as the empowerment when it is to come to have influence that it is an outer fence mark on structure.
The antonym is D empowerment. I say the state that is not done empowerment of.
It comes to be used in a sociological meaning by a proposal of Pouro Freire who is a Brazilian education thinker representing the 20th century, and it is used in the scenes such as the world indigenous people exercise and woman exercise that I did including Latin America or the citizens movement of the wide sense, and the empowerment is the concept that came to be practiced.
It is the point that it is going to realize fair society with equality to enable the display of the human potential, and find value that a concept of the empowerment squeezes a focus, and it is not a concept to merely promote an individual and the independence of the group.
John Friedmann who built the basics of empowerment concept raises knowledge and a skill, reasonable information, social organization, a social network, labor and means, a fund to make living as resources bringing up empowerment in life space, an off time and does it when there is each element for interdependence relations while becoming independent.
When local autonomy or the position improvement of the weak overcome a problem to do bottom up on from the bottom, that I bring up relations capital such as trust, awareness, confidence, the responsibility that a network of the activity brings about is done with a big key of the empowerment improvement.
The empowerment became the theoretical frames such as the natural resources nationalism in indigenous people movement.
In the fields such as the local autonomy that an ideal method of the civic participation is asked, it is it with the one of the concepts that are regarded as important when I build interest for the citizen's area and an independent relation. In addition, the idea called the fair society becoming the base of the empowerment such as citizens' ombudsmen system or the administration assessment system when established it, became the theoretical prop.
Empowerment civic by empowerment as the civic participation, local promotion and local reproduction / local activation there can be the thing called the community empowerment. Even meanings such as merely devolution or the skill up are used in the company. Concepts of the empowerment are used many by the welfare or disaster prevention in the field made with a town. In the field of disaster prevention, importance of the voluntary disaster prevention activity by the civic self-act / mutual assistance in the emergency says disaster prevention empowerment.