COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT,
SOLIDARITY, AND
CITIZENSHIP
WHAT IS A
COMMUNITY?
ETYMOLOGY
The word
community was
derived from the
Latin word,
communis, which
means common or
shared
A community is a
group of people who
share something in
common
-Nina Simon, The Art of
Relevance
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GEOGRAPHICAL COMMUNITY
IT IS A COMMUNITY WHERE
MEMBERS SHARE THE SAME
GEOGRAPHICAL VICINITY
SUCH AS A VILLAGE,
PROVINCE, OR
NEIGHBORHOOD.
NON-GEOGRAPHICAL
COMMUNITY
It is a community
formed based on
needs, ideas,
interests, practices,
and roles in social
institutions such as
home, work,
government, and
s o c i e t y.
Communication and
relationships are
imperative in building
c o m m u n i t y. A s p e o p l e
communicate and
interact, relationships
f o s t e r. I t d e v e l o p s
pattern by which adopted
in the environment.
MACRO LEVEL
MICRO LEVEL It is a large group affiliation
like national communities,
A group is based on personal
international communities,
ties. This may include groups
and virtual communities.
formed for pursuing common
interests or goals like forming
a small organization to hold a
fund-raising activity such as
concerts.
ALTERNATIVE
PERSPECTIVE
TRADITIONAL It describes community in
PERSPECTIVE
a subjective manner
It relates communities acknowledging the
with geographical economic, environmental,
location, work, and the and social issues affecting
social system. a community.
IMPORTANCE OF STUDYING COMMUNITY
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It motivates people to work together – people feel a sense of
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community and recognize the benefits of their involvement.
2 It encourages social, religious, or traditional obligations for
mutual help
3 People see a genuine opportunity to better their own lives and
for the community.
4 It understands policies promoting community participation that
values social capital.
.5 Community participation could be understood as the direct
involvement of citizenry in the affairs of planning, governance, and overall
development programs at local or grassroots level.
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COMMUNITY DYNAMICS
- pertain to the changes in
community structure and
composition
- interactions that bring
significant change to the
lives of people
Group Task
Determine the changes that happened in your
community by comparing Valencia City in 2017
and 2023
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Individual Task
What is the importance of understanding your
community dynamics for your future career?
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COMMUNITY ACTION
It pertains to any activity that aims to
increase the understanding,
engagement, and empowerment of
communities for the intention of giving
services to people.
There are 3-key points in grasping the definition more
meaningful:
1. Understanding – raise an awareness about certain
communal issues that needs to be addressed. People
develop the feeling of involvement once they truly
comprehend the situation within.
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2. Engagement – Once issues are assessed properly and
people in the community understand the needs, they work
collaboratively to act on it.
3. Empowerment – enable the people to independently
decide, plan-out and take action to control the situation they
have in the community.
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The study of community action is imperative in
the field of Social Sciences and other related
disciplines as it lays on the foundation that
individuals and families-as basic unit, are
embedded in different social structures that
shape the behaviors in the system.
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WHAT IS SOCIAL SCIENCE?
It is the study of people: as
individuals, communities, and
societies; their behaviors and
interactions with each other
and with their environment.
SOCIAL WORKER
SOCIAL WORKERS WORK WTH
PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY
W H O N E E D S U P P O R T, F O R
EXAMPLE, CHILDREN WHO ARE
AT R I S K , P E O P L E W I T H
D I S A B I L I T I E S , O R M E N TA L
H E A LT H D I F F I C U LT I E S .
JOURNALIST
A JOURNALIST IS
RESPONSIBLE FOR
RESEARCHING AND WRITING
I N F O R M AT I O N A L N E W S
A R T I C L E S A N D S TO R I E S A B O U T
R E A L E V E N T S U S I N G A FA I R
AND UNBAISED PERSPECTIVE.
COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT WORKER
WORK IN COMMUNITIES WITH
D I F F E R E N T A G E N C I E S TO
BRING CHANGE AND
I M P R O V E M E N T.
HUMAN RESOURCE
MANAGER
HUMAN RESOURCE OFFICERS
A I M TO E N S U R E T H AT
O R G A N I Z AT I O N S H AV E A
SKILLED AND EFFICIENT
WORKFORCE. THEY ARE
I N V O LV E D I N
R E C R U I T M E N T, S E L E C T I O N ,
T R A I N I N G , A N D D E V E L O P M E N T.
PERFORMANCE TASK (Group Work):
1. Make a social map of the various social institutions present in
your community
2.Using the career options by your group members, prepare a
social map featuring the different networks of people and
resources that will exist in your future community after 10 years.
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SOCIAL MAP
THE NATURE OF A COMMUNITY
A COMMUNITY IS A
SOCIOLOGICAL CONSTRUCT
A COMMUNITY HAS
FUZZY BOUNDARIES
A COMMUNITY
MAY MOVE
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A COMMUNITY
CAN EXIST
WITHIN A LARGER
COMMUNITY
Why is a community considered a super-organic
organism or system?
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