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COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, SOLIDARITY, AND CITIZENSHIP MIDTERM REVIEWER LESSON 1 LESSON 2 EXPLORING COMMUNITY DYNAMICS AND PERSPEKTIBO SA PAMAYANAN COMMUNITY ACTION THE SOCIAL SCIENCE PERSPECTIVE COM...

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, SOLIDARITY, AND CITIZENSHIP MIDTERM REVIEWER LESSON 1 LESSON 2 EXPLORING COMMUNITY DYNAMICS AND PERSPEKTIBO SA PAMAYANAN COMMUNITY ACTION THE SOCIAL SCIENCE PERSPECTIVE COMMUNITY - A community is a congregation of people - Communis [L] “common/shared” unified by at least one common - Consists of a social fabric, power structure characteristic. and resource management system. - The people can be unified by geography, shared interests, values, experiences, or COMMUNITY DYNAMICS traditions. - Changes in the community brought about by social, cultural, and environmental Socialization experiences whether it is positive or - Interacting with the members of the negative development that impacts within community enables us to embrace their the community. behavioral pattern. COMMUNITY ACTION The Role Of The Family - Activity that aims to increase the - The key player that facilitates the creation of understanding, engagement, and behavioral patterns. empowerment of communities of giving services to people. TWO TYPES OF HUMAN ASSOCIATION (Ferdinand Tonnies - 1887) GAINS FROM UNDERSTANDING 1. Gemeinschaft COMMUNITY DYNAMICS - Community - A tighter and more cohesive social 1. Provides benchmarking data entity. - Illustrate a preliminary picture or image - Unity of Will of the community, 2. Gesellschaft - This serves as the initial community - Society or Association situationer or briefer. - Individuals participate as members 2. Provides preliminary project planning driven by self-interest. information 3. Provides an idea of the community’s “The real community is a manifestation of both strengths and challenges the gemeinschaft and the gesellschaft” 4. Provides an opportunity to understand the community’s dominant rules and norms THE COMMUNITY-BASED PERSPECTIVE 5. To gauge the attitude and the behavior of - Local and Grassroots Level the community - Community is a setting for intervention, 6. Fosters a well-informed dialogue with the target for change, resource, and agent from community the community-based perspective. 7. Makes networking and partnership building more favorable 1. A Setting For Intervention 8. Gets project implementation less - The community may be defined complicated geographically - Interventions may be done on different community institutions, such as 1 Jeremiah O. // CESC COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, SOLIDARITY, AND CITIZENSHIP MIDTERM REVIEWER neighborhoods, schools, churches, work areas, and community orgs. SECTORAL PERSPECTIVE 2. A Target for Change - Communities are seen as a system - The community denotes the goal of which is composed of individuals and creating a healthy environment by policy sectors with diverse characteristics and and community-wide institutions and interrelationship. services. - Societal sectors must be - The community is the target well-integrated for communities to beneficiary of service interventions and function properly. community development. 3. A Resource CIVIL SOCIETY PERSPECTIVE - The community is a good material for - Civil Society (CS) groups are a wide promotion as it has a considerable array of nongovernmental and volunteer degree of “community ownership and groups that seek responses and participation”. solutions to social issues. - This situation provides a high possibility - The CS recognizes that the people in of project intervention success. the community that are affected by 4. An Agent social problems must organize and band - The focus is on “respecting and together to advocate for social change. reinforcing the natural, adaptive, supportive, and developmental capacities of communities”. LESSON 3 - Communities, through local institutions, THE NATURE OF A COMMUNITY provide resources for realizing regular needs (Steuart, 1993). A COMMUNITY: ECOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE - Based on Urie Bronfenbrenner’s Social Sociological Construct - A set of human Ecology. interactions or behaviors that have meaning and - Behavior is perceived not only as a expectations between its members based on product of knowledge, values, and norms, mores, and folkways. attitudes of individuals, but also as a result of social influences. Fuzzy Boundaries - A community’s cultural - identity is not defined wholly by its geographic boundary. The interaction of its members to external communities influence the norms and behaviors that are assimilated by the people within a community. Can exist Within a Larger Community - There may be communities within larger communities, including districts, regions, ethnic groups, nations, and other boundaries. A Community may Move - A community is still considered as a community even if they move places. 2 Jeremiah O. // CESC COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, SOLIDARITY, AND CITIZENSHIP MIDTERM REVIEWER Organism - Bartle (2010): A community is a LESSON 4 super-organic organism or system that is made TYPES OF COMMUNITIES up of thoughts, outlook, and conduct of individual human beings full of divisions and CLASSIFICATIONS OF COMMUNITIES conflicts brought about by differences. ★ Rural-Urban - Geographical classification of community THE STRUCTURE OF A COMMUNITY ★ Local-Global - Spatialized networks of social relations. Diff. representations of ★ Power and the Community - Power in a space competing against each other. community is the capacity to influence the ★ Physical Space-Virtual Social Space - decision- making and distribution processes With the development of online to effectively or ineffectively enact change. communication, the concept of community went beyond geographic ★ Connections - The capacity to create limitations. linkages and develop helpful relationships with powerful individuals, family, and THE SECTORS OF THE COMMUNITY organizations. ★ Health ★ Education ★ Power in Number - The base, back-up, and ★ Law Enforcement support of the people in the community. ★ Government ★ Business ★ Rewards - Ability to provide awards, ★ Youth - Citizens with the age of 15-30 promotion, money, and gifts that are useful years old (R.A. 8044, Sec. 4, prgh a) to meet individual or organizational goals. ★ Media ★ Religion ★ Personal Traits/Expertise - Capacity to ★ Civil Societies foster respect and loyalty based on charm, ★ Environment talent, and skills. ★ Culture ★ Legitimate Power - The leadership title or LESSON 5 higher organizational or institutional position. COMMUNITY ACTION ★ Information - The ability to keep or share information. Community Action - A manifestation of a collective grasp and ownership of a situation that ★ Coercion - Influence through manipulation generally has an effect on them. Such situation and coercion. touches their sense and sensibilities as individuals and groups. THE DIMENSIONS OF A COMMUNITY ★ Technological THE INGREDIENTS OF A COMMUNITY ★ Political ACTION ★ Aesthetic-Values ★ Common Context - Similarity in location ★ Economic ★ Common Experience - Gives a sense of ★ Institutional being one. Enables to stick to a common ★ Beliefs-Conceptual cause. ★ Common Understanding - Elevates the relationship of the community from a “feeling” level to a “thinking” level. 3 Jeremiah O. // CESC COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, SOLIDARITY, AND CITIZENSHIP MIDTERM REVIEWER ★ Common Analysis - Puts the community members’ understanding of the issue to a certain perspective based on core values and principles. ★ Common Standard - Reaching compromises because of differences in values and principles, the community will target a minimum standard. COMMUNITY ACTION PHASES ★ The Issue - Identification, analysis, and dissemination ★ Mobilization - Leading and encouraging people to take action. ★ Organization - what is lacking? What is available? ★ Education - The people involved are equipped with the necessary competencies. 4 Jeremiah O. // CESC