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Week 1-1. Definition of Community Based On Different Perspective

The document discusses different perspectives on the definition of community, including: 1) Social science perspectives that see community as a group of people sharing characteristics, location, values and interests. 2) Institutional perspectives that view communities as systems composed of individuals and sectors with diverse roles and interests. 3) Civil society perspectives that consider communities as structures with resources but also social issues. 4) Community-based perspectives that see communities as settings for intervention and agents of change at the local level. The document then asks guided questions about community composition and effects and asks students to reflect on definitions using different perspectives and relate them to their own communities.

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Week 1-1. Definition of Community Based On Different Perspective

The document discusses different perspectives on the definition of community, including: 1) Social science perspectives that see community as a group of people sharing characteristics, location, values and interests. 2) Institutional perspectives that view communities as systems composed of individuals and sectors with diverse roles and interests. 3) Civil society perspectives that consider communities as structures with resources but also social issues. 4) Community-based perspectives that see communities as settings for intervention and agents of change at the local level. The document then asks guided questions about community composition and effects and asks students to reflect on definitions using different perspectives and relate them to their own communities.

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COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT,

SOLIDARITY & CITIZENSHIP


MRS. MARIE CONNEELY D. VILLANUEVA
DESCRIBE
YOUR
COMMUNITY
WHAT IS
COMMUNITY?
WHAT IS COMMUNITY?

BILL LEE( 1992) – Community is


simply a group of people who
have something in common.
WHAT IS COMMUNITY?
BOOTHROYD (1990) community is a
human system of more than two people
which the member interact personally
over time in which behavior and activity
are guided by collectively-evolved norms
or collective decisions.
WHAT IS COMMUNITY?
GREEK- it means “fellowship”,
a group of people who come
together for mutual support
and to fulfill their basic needs.
GROUP ACTIVITY
• Group 1 Analysis of the meaning of community
based on sociological perspective.
• Group 2: Analysis of the meaning of community
based on sociological perspective.
• Group3: Analysis of the meaning of community
based on intuitional perspective.
• Group 4: Create a venn diagram about the
definition of community based community based
and civil society perspective
THE SOCIAL SCIENCE
PERSPECTIVE
SOCIAL SCIENCE
PERSPECTIVE

•A community is a
congregation of people or
traditions unified by at least
one common characteristic.
SOCIAL SCIENCE
PERSPECTIVE

•A group of people living in the


same defined area, sharing
common basic values,
organization, and interest
SOCIAL SCIENCE
PERSPECTIVE
• A community is a group of people
whose connections and relations are
formed by their shared history,
experiences, geographies and
identities.
THE INSTITUTIONAL
PERSPECTIVE
SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE.
• A group of two or more people who have
been able to accept and transcend their
differences regardless of the diversity of
their backgrounds (social, spiritual,
educational, ethnic, economic, political
SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE.
• It is a set of interactions, human behaviors
that have meaning and expectations
between its members. Not just action, but
actions based on shared expectations,
values, beliefs and meanings between
individuals
THE INSTITUTIONAL
PERSPECTIVE
INSTITUTION PERSPECTIVE
• Communities are seen as a system
which is compromised of individual and
sectors with diverse characteristics and
interrelationship.
• The sectors are composed of group of
individuals embodying distinct role and
interest within the community system.
CIVIL SOCIETY
PERSPECTIVE
CIVIL SOCIETY PERSPECTIVE
•They view the community as
composed of people, structure
and system endowed with
resources but is confronted with
social issue as well.
COMMUNITY-BASED
PERSPECTIVE
LOCAL AND GRASSROOTS LEVEL
COMMUNITY-BASED PERSPECTIVE

•Community is seen as a setting


for intervention, target for
change, resource and agent
from the community based
perspective.
GUIDED QUESTIONS

•Who compose the community?


• What is the basic unit of community
or society?
GUIDED QUESTIONS

•What significantly composes the


community? How does the basic
unit of community/society affects as
a whole.
HOW DOES THE PRESENTATION
REFLECT OUR OWN COMMUNITY?
DOES ALL OF THE PERSPECTIVES
SIGNIFIES TO OUR FAMILY AS THE BASIS
UNIT? EXPLAIN
CHOOSE ONE PERSPECTIVE THAT
ARE MOST APPEALING TO YOU AND
EXPLAIN?
COMPARE AND CONTRAST THE
DEFINITIONS OF COMMUNITY USING
VARIOUS PERSPECTIVES
Social Institutio Community
Sociolo Civil Based
Sciences nal Society
gical
a setting for
-Living in the -accept and compromised
of individual
composed intervention,
same area transcend their
and sectors of people, target for
-have differences
common regardless of with diverse structure change,
interest and the diversity of characteristics and system resource
characteristic their and and agent
-shared history, backgrounds interrelationshi from the
experiences, -interaction p
community
geographies and action
based
perspective.
WHAT IS COMMUNITY?
•compare and contrast the
definitions of community using
various perspectives
HOMEWORK: LOKAL!

•Take pictures of your


communities to be collated in
a FLYERS. Write a description
about your community.
HOMEWORK: LOKAL!

•Take pictures of your


communities to be collated in
a FLYERS. Write a description
about your community.

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