COMMUNITY: DEFINITION AND

CHARACTERISTICS
LEARNING COMPETENCY

•Explain the importance of

studying community dynamics
and community action in relation
to applied social sciences and the
learners’ future career options.
LEARNING OBJECTIVE

•The learners will be able to define

what is a community, identify the
characteristics of community and
analyze personal membership in
various communities.
PRE-TEST
1. It pertains to highly industrialize
communities.

•A. Rural
•B. Slums
•C. Social Status
•D. Urban
2. It consists of agricultural land and referred
as the pre-industrial communities.

•A. Rural
•B. Slums
•C. Social Status
•D. Urban
3. It is a densely populated area usually
crowded and has dirty run-down housing.

•A. Rural
•B. Slums
•C. Social Status
•D. Urban
4. It refers to the social standing of an individual.

•A. Rural
•B. Slums
•C. Social Status
•D. Urban
5. What is the type of community that
includes cities and there are lots of people
close together in a small amount of space?

A. Rural
B. Slum
C. Suburban
D. Urban
6. What is the type of community that
composed of farm land and the areas are
more open space?

A. Rural
B. Slum
C. Suburban
D. Urban
7. What is the type of community that are usually close
to, but not in, cities. there are fewer people than on
urban communities, but many more than in rural
communities?

A. Rural
B. Slum
C. Suburban
D. Urban
8. What is the type of community that highly
populated urban residential area consisting
mostly of closely packed, decrepit housing
units?
A. Rural
B. Slum
C. Suburban
D. Urban
9. It refers to the Social Science Discipline
that community as a group who follow a
social structure within a society.

A.Anthropology
B.Geography
C.Psychology
D.Sociology
10. It refers to the Social Science Discipline
that a field with a unique new perspective for
understanding the individuals within their
environment.
A.Anthropology
B.Geography
C.Psychology
D.Sociology
Past and Present

TABLE COMPARISON
2015 2024
Past and Present

TABLE COMPARISON
2015 2024
1. What are the factors that brought these changes?
Past and Present

TABLE COMPARISON
2015 2024
2. Describe the diversity of the components of the
community you’re living in.
Past and Present

TABLE COMPARISON
2015 2024
3. What are the career opportunities in store for you in
your community
MATCH IT!
COLUMN A COLUMN B

1. It pertains to
A. Slums
B. Urban

highly industrialize C. Social Status

communities.
D. Rural

E. Subdivision
F. Community
MATCH IT!
COLUMN A COLUMN B

1. It pertains to B. Urban
A. Slums

highly industrialize C. Social Status

communities.
D. Rural

E. Subdivision
F. Community
MATCH IT!
COLUMN A COLUMN B

2. It consists of
A. Slums
B. Urban

agricultural land and C. Social Status

referred as the pre- D. Rural

industrial communities. E. Subdivision

F. Community
MATCH IT!
COLUMN A COLUMN B

2. It consists of
A. Slums
B. Urban

agricultural land and C. Social Status

referred as the pre- D. Rural

industrial communities. E. Subdivision
F. Community
MATCH IT!
COLUMN A COLUMN B

3. It is a densely
A. Slums
B. Urban

populated area usually C. Social Status

crowded and has dirty D. Rural

run-down housing. E. Subdivision

F. Community
MATCH IT!
COLUMN A COLUMN B

3. It is a densely A. Slums
B. Urban

populated area usually C. Social Status

crowded and has dirty D. Rural

run-down housing. E. Subdivision

F. Community
MATCH IT!
COLUMN A COLUMN B

4. An area of land that

A. Slums
B. Urban

has been divided on C. Social Status

smaller areas on which D. Rural

houses were built. E. Subdivision

F. Community
MATCH IT!
COLUMN A COLUMN B

4. An area of land that

A. Slums
B. Urban

has been divided on C. Social Status

smaller areas on which D. Rural

houses were built. E. Subdivision

F. Community
MATCH IT!
COLUMN A COLUMN B

5. It refers to the
A. Slums
B. Urban

social standing of
C. Social Status

D. Rural

an individual. E. Subdivision
F. Community
MATCH IT!
COLUMN A COLUMN B

5. It refers to the
A. Slums
B. Urban

social standing of
C. Social Status

D. Rural

an individual. E. Subdivision
F. Community
 Questions to Ponder
•1. Why do you think it
is important to know the
kind of community you
belong?
 Questions to Ponder
•2. What is your personal
career choice and what
makes you choose this
career?
 Questions to Ponder
•3. How does a change
in your community
affects your career
choice?
 What is Community?
•It is where the people
work, play, and live.
 What is Community?
•It is a group of people who occupy a
common contiguous territory, possessed of
a common sets of traditions associated
with their living together in the territory,
and served by a set of local institutions in
which the people are conscious of their
common interest.
 Types of Community
•1. URBAN
COMMUNITIES
 Types of Community
•1. RURAL
COMMUNITIES
 Types of Community
•1. SUBURBAN
COMMUNITIES
 Types of Community
• SLUM- A slum is usually a
highly populated urban
residential area consisting mostly
of closely packed, decrepit
housing units in a situation of
deteriorated or incomplete
infrastructure, inhabited primarily
by impoverished persons.
Community in the Perspective of the
Following Social Science Discipline

•SOCIOLOGY- community as a
group who follow a social structure
within a society (culture, norms,
values, status).
Community in the Perspective of the
Following Social Science Discipline
•SOCIOLOGY- They may work together to
organize social life within a particular
place, or they may be bound by a sense of
belonging sustained across time and space.
Community in the Perspective of the
Following Social Science Discipline
•PSYCHOLOGY- Community Psychology
is a field with a unique new perspective
for understanding the individuals within
their environment which includes the
larger social systems that affect their lives.
Community in the Perspective of the
Following Social Science Discipline

•PSYCHOLOGY- It does not

focus on － problems│but rather
on the strengths and competencies
of community members.
Community in the Perspective of the
Following Social Science Discipline

•ANTHROPOLOGY- Community’
is to be characterized in terms of:
(1) common interests between
people;
Community in the Perspective of the
Following Social Science Discipline

•ANTHROPOLOGY- (2) a
common ecology and
locality; or
Community in the Perspective of the
Following Social Science Discipline

•ANTHROPOLOGY- (3) a
common social system or
structure.
Community in the Perspective of the
Following Social Science Discipline

•ANTHROPOLOGY- Hence,
communities come to be marked
by a fair degree of social
coherence.
Community in the Perspective of the
Following Social Science Discipline
•GEOGRAPHY- A community of place or
place-based community is a community of
people who are bound together because of
where they reside, work, visit or otherwise
spend a continuous portion of their time.
Community in the Perspective of the
Following Social Science Discipline
•ECONOMICS- Economics for
community holds that the non-market
goods and services have intrinsic, non-
monetary values that cannot be replaced
by financial assets.
Community in the Perspective of the
Following Social Science Discipline
•ECONOMICS- It holds that rules are
needed to respect this basic requirement
for various non-market goods and services
to ensure economic activities serve these
broader values.
Community in the Perspective of the
Following Social Science Discipline
•ARCHAEOLOGY- Also known as public
Archaeology, community archaeology
involves communities “in the planning
and carrying out of research projects that
are of direct interest to them”.
POST-TEST
1. It pertains to highly industrialize
communities.

•A. Rural
•B. Slums
•C. Social Status
•D. Urban
2. It consists of agricultural land and referred
as the pre-industrial communities.

•A. Rural
•B. Slums
•C. Social Status
•D. Urban
3. It is a densely populated area usually
crowded and has dirty run-down housing.

•A. Rural
•B. Slums
•C. Social Status
•D. Urban
4. It refers to the social standing of an individual.

•A. Rural
•B. Slums
•C. Social Status
•D. Urban
5. What is the type of community that
includes cities and there are lots of people
close together in a small amount of space?

A. Rural
B. Slum
C. Suburban
D. Urban
6. What is the type of community that
composed of farm land and the areas are
more open space?

A. Rural
B. Slum
C. Suburban
D. Urban
7. What is the type of community that are usually close
to, but not in, cities. there are fewer people than on
urban communities, but many more than in rural
communities?

A. Rural
B. Slum
C. Suburban
D. Urban
8. What is the type of community that highly
populated urban residential area consisting
mostly of closely packed, decrepit housing
units?
A. Rural
B. Slum
C. Suburban
D. Urban
9. It refers to the Social Science Discipline
that community as a group who follow a
social structure within a society.

A.Anthropology
B.Geography
C.Psychology
D.Sociology
10. It refers to the Social Science Discipline
that a field with a unique new perspective for
understanding the individuals within their
environment.
A.Anthropology
B.Geography
C.Psychology
D.Sociology
1. It pertains to highly industrialize
communities.

•A. Rural
•B. Slums
•C. Social Status
•D. Urban
2. It consists of agricultural land and referred
as the pre-industrial communities.

•A. Rural
•B. Slums
•C. Social Status
•D. Urban
3. It is a densely populated area usually
crowded and has dirty run-down housing.

•A. Rural
•B. Slums
•C. Social Status
•D. Urban
4. It refers to the social standing of an individual.

•A. Rural
•B. Slums
•C. Social Status
•D. Urban
5. What is the type of community that
includes cities and there are lots of people
close together in a small amount of space?

A. Rural
B. Slum
C. Suburban
D. Urban
6. What is the type of community that
composed of farm land and the areas are
more open space?

A. Rural
B. Slum
C. Suburban
D. Urban
7. What is the type of community that are usually close
to, but not in, cities. there are fewer people than on
urban communities, but many more than in rural
communities?

A. Rural
B. Slum
C. Suburban
D. Urban
8. What is the type of community that highly
populated urban residential area consisting
mostly of closely packed, decrepit housing
units?
A. Rural
B. Slum
C. Suburban
D. Urban
9. It refers to the Social Science Discipline
that community as a group who follow a
social structure within a society.

A.Anthropology
B.Geography
C.Psychology
D.Sociology
10. It refers to the Social Science Discipline
that a field with a unique new perspective for
understanding the individuals within their
environment.
A.Anthropology
B.Geography
C.Psychology
D.Sociology