Social Entrepreneur Foundations Social Entrepreneur Foundation Compassion Level

Social Entrepreneur Foundations

Social Entrepreneur Foundation : Compassion Level of Social Distance Attachment Social Insight

Compassion • a deep awareness of and feeling for another’s suffering, combined with an active, engaged desire to alleviate it. • Compassion is about more than acknowledgment — it’s about action. • Compassion begins with a generous promise made from one party to another. • The promise is generally that the caring party will be there for the care recipients.

As a social entrepreneur, you must always pursue two interlocking goals: Succeed at your social enterprise. • This goal is first and foremost, of course. Get others to share your compassion • . A secondary goal is to advance, directly or indirectly, everyone else’s capacity for compassion.

Social distance • the perceived or desired degree of remoteness between a member of one social group and the members of another, as evidenced in the level of intimacy tolerated between them. • "material differences provided members with a constant stimulus for social distance"

Social Categories social categories, • • class, race and ethnicity, culture, nationality, religion, gender and sexuality, and age, among others. three key types of social distance: affective, normative, interactive.

Affective social distance • The degree some person feel sympathy or empathy to other group (borgadus) • Ex : are you willing to live in a slump area ? ; are you willing to eat with a man who have low income?

Normative social distance • The kind of difference we perceive between ourselves as a member of group and the member of others groups • “Us” and “them”, “insider” vs “outsider”

Interactive social distance • The extent to which different group of people interact with each other, in term of both frequency and intensity of interaction

Attachment theory • attachments — the emotional bonds that have their origins in contact comfort • Attachment theory states that a strong emotional and physical attachment to at least one primary caregiver is critical to personal development

Social Insight • the reasoned ability to connect the dots from specific facts on the ground — what’s happening to real people — to the social realities they’re caught up in as cultural members of a complex number of groups embedded in institutional realities.