What is the main purpose of Plato’s message reported in Paragraph M?  M Plato, Aristotle’s teacher, would probably agree. Living at a time when writing began to challenge Greece’s oral-based culture, he warned that writing would make people “trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves . . . They will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing.” 

The political network is the system of affiliations and alliances within the social service organization’s environment.

An action system is the system being changed.

What does “constraint” mean in the context of the last sentence of Paragraph Q? Q Today, the extra work needed to manually enter Chinese into a computer—up to five keystrokes for one Chinese character—raises an important issue. China could become the wealthiest country in the world; it already is a major factor in the international economy. As this economy relies more on computers, does the Chinese writing system act as a constraint on its development? 

According to the life cycle model, the final phase of neighborhood change is a stable and viable neighborhood.

Assets are the people, groups, and resources in a community that can help it function and grow.

Lines of authority are usually specified in writing by the agency.

Settlement houses emphasized the empowerment of people.

Urban centers tend to be more specialized in function than rural communities.

Dual or multiple relationships may be unavoidable for a generalist practitioner in a rural community.