COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT,

SOLIDARITY AND
CITIZENSHIP

ANIELYN D. PABITO
 REVIEW (Week 1)
 COMMUNITY DYNAMICS
- refer to the changes that occur in the community power composition
over time. It is also the process of change and development in
communities which strive to bring about positive social change through
community-based programming. Community Dynamics is the process
of change and development in communities of all living organisms—
including plants, microorganisms, and small and large creatures of
every sort.
 REVIEW
Community Action
 A collective efforts done by people directed
towards addressing and solving social
problems or accomplishing a specific
outcome
 Community Engagement
 refers to the process of developing partnerships and
sustaining relationships with and through groups of
people affiliated by geographic proximity or common
interests for the purpose of working for the common
good and of addressing issues that affect their well-
being
 Solidarity
 refers to the firm and persevering
determination to commit oneself to the
common good by mutually supporting and
sustaining movement for social change and
social justice.
 Citizenship
 refers to full membership in a
community in which one lives,
works, or was born
 Social Change
 is the alteration of social interactions,
institutions, stratification systems, and elements
of culture over time
Make an outline in your notebook
about the topic COMMUNITY
DYNAMICS.
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Perspectives of Community

 Community in late Middle English term come from a

Latin word “communitas” which means fellowship.
This word as divided in Latin roots, “communis”,
means “common”. “Com” translates to “with” or
together”, whereas “munire” translates to
“strengthen”, “to fortify” or “to defend”,
 Community in the different perspectives

 Social Science Perspective

 Civil Society Perspective
 Institutional Perspective
 Organic/ Grassroots Level Perspective
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Functions of Community
 A community is a group of people in the same
geographic area, under common laws, that has
a sense of fellowship, belonging, and
obligation to the group. Types of communities
are a neighborhood, church, a mom's group, a
town, girl scouts etc.
 FIVE FUNCTIONS
1. PRODUCTION, DISTRIBUTION, CONSUMPTION: The
community provides its members with the means to make a
living. This may be agriculture, industry, or services.
2. SOCIALIZATION: The community has means by which it
instills its norms and values in its members. This may be
tradition, modeling, and/or formal education.
3. SOCIAL CONTROL: The community has the means to
enforce adherence to community values. This may be group
pressure to conform and/or formal laws.
 FIVE FUNCTIONS
4. SOCIAL PARTICIPATION: The community fulfills the
need for companionship. This may occur in a neighborhood,
church, business, or other group.
5. MUTUAL SUPPORT: The community enables its members
to cooperate to accomplish tasks too large or too urgent to be
handled by a single person. Supporting a community hospital
with tax dollars and donations is an example of people
cooperating to accomplish the task of health care.
 Structural Dimensions of Community

Community structure is represented by the social hierarchies

that are inherent to each collective. It is also the attributes and
characteristics of the elements of the community and how these
elements are interrelated. Understanding these dimensions will
benefit the actors and players of the community in facing
challenges such as issues and problems which are typically
multidimensional.
FOUR BASIC STRUCTURAL DIMENSIONS OF
COMMUNITY
 FOUR BASIC STRUCTURAL DIMENSIONS OF
COMMUNITY

1. The Geographical Dimension of

Community
 The geographical dimension focuses on how a
community is shaped by the physical space
and the location of its resources such as
human, natural resources, and technological.
 FOUR BASIC STRUCTURAL DIMENSIONS OF
COMMUNITY

2. The Political Dimension of Community

 The political dimension of community is its various ways and means of
allocating power, influence and decision making. It is not the same as
ideology, which belongs to the values dimension. It includes, but is not
limited to, types of governments and management systems. It also
includes how people in small bands or informal groups make decisions
when they do not have a recognized leader. Political power is among the
sixteen elements of community power or organizational capacity. The
more political power and influence it has, the more it can do the things it
desires.
 FOUR BASIC STRUCTURAL DIMENSIONS OF
COMMUNITY

3. The Cultural Dimension of Community

 The belief-conceptual dimension of community is
another structure of ideas, also sometimes
contradictory, that people have about the nature of
the universe, the world around them, their role in
it, cause and effect, and the nature of time, matter,
and behavior.
 FOUR BASIC STRUCTURAL DIMENSIONS OF
COMMUNITY
4. The Economic Dimension of Community
 The economic dimension of community is its various ways and
means of production and allocation of scarce and useful goods
and services (wealth), whether that is through gift giving,
obligations, barter, market trade, or state allocations. It is not
the physical items like cash which make up the economic
dimension of culture, but the ideas and behavior which give
value to cash (and other items) by humans who have created the
economic systems they use.
 FOUR BASIC STRUCTURAL DIMENSIONS OF
COMMUNITY
4. The Economic Dimension of Community
 The economic dimension of community is its various ways and
means of production and allocation of scarce and useful goods
and services (wealth), whether that is through gift giving,
obligations, barter, market trade, or state allocations. It is not
the physical items like cash which make up the economic
dimension of culture, but the ideas and behavior which give
value to cash (and other items) by humans who have created the
economic systems they use.
Community Dynamics
and Processes
 Community Dynamics and Processes
Power Structure
 All types of communities with its diverse social
systems have people or groups of people who control
decision-making functions. These people can be called
key leaders or power actors. Power structure in the
community refers to the roles that these key leaders or
“power actors” perform.
 Community Dynamics and Processes
Power Structure

 1. Formal Power Structure – Authority or power comes from the legal

authoritative basis of elected and appointed government officials and
leaders of civic organizations. Power actors in this category are referred
to as legal-authoritative decision-makers. They are individuals or
bodies whose authority is based on formal rules and institutions.
 Community Dynamics and Processes
Power Structure

 2. Informal Power Structure – This exists alongside

the formal-institutional power structure. Power actors
in this structure are known as influencers. They have
power primarily because of their influence, not just
their positions of authority.
 Community Dynamics and Processes
Call for Social Change
 Society is ever-changing. It is never static since the people
that make up the society are, in nature, continually changing
in terms of their interactions on a certain milieu. Social
change refers to the fluctuations or deviations in the order of
society. Changes that affect its institutions, norms, or cultures
are all variables that can affect social change.
 Community Dynamics and Processes
Call for Social Change
 Factors affecting social change are the structures and
institutions that all contribute to the ongoing calibration of
norms in our society
Typologies of Community
Rural-Urban Communities
 This classification of communities is categorized
by their geographical characteristics such as
location, population, space, and accessibility. It is
based on the distinction in terms of development,
industrialization, ecological conditions, and
lifestyle.
2. Local-Global Communities

Definitions.net describes local community as a

group of interacting people sharing an environment.
In local communities, intent, belief, resources,
preferences, needs, risks, and a number of other
conditions may be present and common, affecting
the identity of the participants and their degree of
cohesiveness.
3. Physical Space and Virtual Social Space
-Physical space refers to unlimited three-
dimensional expanses in which material objects are
located.
-Virtual social space, on the other hand, refers
to non-physical spaces created by the development
of technology
4. Formal-Informal Sectors

-Formal sector is composed of establishments, businesses,

and other enterprises that are legally based on their compliance
to government requirements such as licenses. They are
continually being supervised and protected by the government
and its policies because they have successfully attained all
requirements prescribed by the government.
4. Formal-Informal Sectors

-informal sectors are those that lack requirements and

requirements from the government. They tend to disregard the policies
and regulations set by the government. They also fail to register their
businesses and are not paying required taxes in their income and
properties. As such, owners, workers, and customers of these business
establishments are not protected and has limited bargaining rights
when they need to make demands. This sector of the community is
called as the “shadow economy” by economists as it exists behind
state supervision.
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 ACTIVITY 7: Assessment

DIRECTION: Read each statement carefully.

Classify the type of community being
described by each statement. Choose the letter
of the best answer.
Thank you and God bless!