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MODULE 3 CESC Com Dynamics

1. The document discusses community dynamics, which refers to changes in a community's power structure and population composition over time. It examines how factors like fertility, mortality, and migration shape a community's population. 2. Community power structures can be pluralist, with power widely distributed, elitist, with power concentrated among wealthy elites, or factional, with multiple competing interest groups. Understanding a community's power structure and population is important for enacting positive change. 3. The document provides assessment questions on how authority and influence contribute to power, and how demographic factors impact a community's population. It also tasks researching social science disciplines that study community dynamics and mapping their career options.

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MODULE 3 CESC Com Dynamics

1. The document discusses community dynamics, which refers to changes in a community's power structure and population composition over time. It examines how factors like fertility, mortality, and migration shape a community's population. 2. Community power structures can be pluralist, with power widely distributed, elitist, with power concentrated among wealthy elites, or factional, with multiple competing interest groups. Understanding a community's power structure and population is important for enacting positive change. 3. The document provides assessment questions on how authority and influence contribute to power, and how demographic factors impact a community's population. It also tasks researching social science disciplines that study community dynamics and mapping their career options.

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Community Engagement, Solidarity and Citizenship

Governor Pack Road, Baguio City, Philippines 2600


Tel. Nos.: (+6374) 442-3316, 442-8220; 444-2786;
442-2564; 442-8219; 442-8256; Fax No.: 442-6268 Name:
Email: [email protected]; Website: www.uc-bcf.edu.ph

S.Y. 2020-2021 Second Trimester Grade Level/Section:


MODULE 3 – CESC Subject Teacher: KIMBERSON P. ALACYANG

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS

I. LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

1. Discuss community dynamics and its elements – community power structures and community population
composition
2. Identify and explain factors resulting to community dynamics.
3. Determine the power structure of a community and explain the key concepts of community power.
4. Discuss ways on how to identify community power actors
5. Explain the importance of studying community dynamics in relation to applied social sciences and the learner’s
future career options.

II. DISCUSSION

Community Dynamics – refers to the changes that occur in the community power structures and community population
composition over time.
I. Community Population Structure refers to the demographical variables that describe the size, distribution, and
characteristics of the population such as age, gender, educational level, marital status, etc.
Factors affecting changes to Community Population Structure
1. Fertility – refers to the actual reproductive performance (number of child births) that can be expected of a person,
couple, group or population during a woman’s childbearing years. Fertility rates are subject to internal and
external determinants such as social and legal preconditions of marriage, use of birth control methods, level of
education, and level of economic and social developments.
2. Mortality – refers to the demographic process relating to deaths, often summarized by death rates, survival rates
and life expectancy.
3. Migration – refers to the process of moving and settling from one place to another. It could also be the movement
across a specified boundary for a considerable period of time and for various reasons (personal, economic,
sociocultural, political or environmental). Migration can be internal, wherein the movement of people is within
the same geographical region, or external, wherein the movement of people is from one national boundary to
another.

II. Community Power Structure are hierarchical interrelationships that govern the interaction of individuals among
each other within a localized setting.
Factors affecting Community Power Structure
1. Authority – “legitimate power”. It is a kind of power that one has over the another by legitimate means or based
of codified laws and regulation. This is often referred as formal power structure.
2. Influence – it is a kind of power that a person possesses over another by virtue of other people’s positive
perception of the former’s competence and ability. This is often referred to as informal power structure.
Shively (1994) summarizes four themes of influence:
a. Status – attainment of influence based on family prominence, positions held, past achievements or
personal prestige.
b. Wealth - attainment of influence based on ownership of property.
c. Expertise - attainment of influence based on possessing knowledge, skills and abilities.
d. Charisma - attainment of influence based on unique qualities of personal magnetism that people
naturally follow.
Types of Community Power Structures
1. Pluralist – power becomes an attribute of an individual and it is widely distributed within the members of the
community, hence making every member roughly equal in influence.
2. Elitist – power generally conforms to the system of hierarchical stratification and is associated with those who
possess corporate wealth and/or prestige.
a. Class-based theory – (refer to Marxism)
Community Engagement, Solidarity and Citizenship
Governor Pack Road, Baguio City, Philippines 2600
Tel. Nos.: (+6374) 442-3316, 442-8220; 444-2786;
442-2564; 442-8219; 442-8256; Fax No.: 442-6268 Name:
Email: [email protected]; Website: www.uc-bcf.edu.ph

S.Y. 2020-2021 Second Trimester Grade Level/Section:


MODULE 3 – CESC Subject Teacher: KIMBERSON P. ALACYANG

3. Factional – power resides to numerous interest groups holding relative power, but they are struggling to control
or dominate influence in community affairs, which often results to arguments and heated debate.
4. Amorphous – refers to a seeming absence of an identified power structure.

III. ASSESSMENT
TASK #1 (30 POINTS)
1.How do authority and influence contribute to the power of an individual? Cite cases/examples.
2. How do fertility, mortality, and migration help in shaping the population of a community?
3. If you are assigned to make positive changes in the lives of the people in a poverty-stricken community, why do you
think the understanding of their community power structure and their community population composition serve as an
important primary step in helping them?

TASK #2 (20 POINTS)


Go online and research which social science disciplines delves on understanding community dynamics. Identify as
many as you can and explain how each discipline tackles community dynamics. Then map out the career options under
each identified social science discipline.
Present your research in a tabular form that consists of four columns. With the following headings: (1) Social Science
Discipline, (2) Description, (3) Justification, and (4) Career options.

S.S. DESCRIPTIO JUSTIFICATION CAREER


DISCIPLI N OPTIONS
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IV. REFERENCES:
 Abenir, M. (2017) Community Engagement, Solidarity, and Citizenship. Makati City: Diwa Learning System Inc.
 http://www.youth.ie/sites/youth.ie/files/NYCI_WDW_section_01.pdf

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