CSC-3RD-QTR.-WEEK-3

Community Engagement, Solidarity,
and Citizenship (CSC)

3rd Quarter SY 2024-2025, Week 3,
MELC 3
Most Essential Learning
Competency (MELC)
[3] Analyze functions of
communities in terms of
structures, dynamics, and
processes.
Specific Learning Objectives:
At the end of the lesson, you are expected:
1. to identify the various dimensions, elements, and structures of
communities;
2. to recognize the dynamics of communities and;
3. to understand the power processes involved in building
communities.
SIX ELEMENTS OR DIMENSIONS OF A COMMUNITY
1. TECHNOLOGICAL ELEMENT OF
COMMUNITY
is the community’s capital, tools and skills, and

ways of dealing with the physical environment.
It is the interface between humanity and the

nature.
2. ECONOMIC ELEMENT OF COMMUNITY

is the various ways and means of production
and allocation of scarce and useful goods and
services (wealth), whether that is through gift
giving, donations, obligations, barter, market
trade or government allocations.
3. POLITICAL ELEMENT OF COMMUNITY

is the various ways and means of allocating power,
influence and decision making. It is not the same
as ideology, which belongs to the values element.
It includes, but is not limited to types of
government and management systems. It also
includes how people in small bands or informal
groups make decisions when they do not have a
recognized leader.
4. INSTITUTIONAL OR SOCIAL ELEMENT OF

COMMUNITY
is composed of the ways people act, interact between
each other, react, and expect each other to act and
interact. It includes such institutions as marriage or
friendship, roles such as mother or police officer;
status or class, and other patterns of human behavior
and interaction.
5. AESTHETIC-VALUE ELEMENT OF
COMMUNITY
is the structure of ideas, sometimes paradoxical,
inconsistent, or contradictory, that people have about
good and bad, about beautiful and ugly, about right
and wrong, which are all the justifications that people
cite to explain their actions.
6. BELIEFS-CONCEPTUAL ELEMENT 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 DYNAMICS AND PROCESSES OF COMMUNITY
1. DYNAMICS OF COMMUNITY POWER
– citizens certainly possess the power to act on their

own behalf without any help from institutions.
Community power is driven by the energy, initiative,
and civic skills throughout community rather than by
the techniques of expert organizations or the
resources of powerful bureaucracies.
2. DYNAMICS OF COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP
– developing and supporting equitable, just

leadership is a key part of celebrating the
diversity and building movements.
3. DYNAMICS OF COMMUNITY
RELATIONSHIP
– social interaction is an important aspect in

community relationships. Social interaction is
universal. It takes place everywhere in the
family, school, work, church, organization,
neighbors, institution where one engages in
conversation or when one greets another.
4. DYNAMICS OF SOCIAL CHANGE
– community organizing is the process by which

people come together to identify common
problems or goals, mobilize resources, and in
other ways, develop and implement strategies
for reaching the objectives they want to
accomplish.
POWER
• FORMAL POWER AND PROCESS
STRUCTURE from the legal
authoritative basis
of elected and appointed government officials and
leaders of civic
organizations.
• INFORMAL POWER STRUCTURE exists alongside

the formal
institutional power structure. It is harder to
empirically identify, but is equally a significant factor
in a community development.
individuals or
bodies whose authority is based on formal rules and
institutions. POWER AND PROCESS
Typically, legal-authoritative decision-makers occupy
positions of
authority through legally mandated processes like
elections or
through formal political appointments.
• INFLUENCERS – individuals or groups who do not

have direct
authority, but are capable of shaping decisions that
affect the
community.
FOUR DIFFERENT KINDS OF POWER
1. POLITICAL OR LEGISLATIVE POWER - for

example, you could sponsor to pass a law to
make it difficult for young people to get hold of
alcohol or tobacco.
2. CONSUMER POWER – your organization

might organize a boycott against a company
whose policies are environmentally unsound.
FOUR DIFFERENT KINDS OF POWER
3. LEGAL REGULATORY POWER – your

organization might take a delinquent landlord
to court.
4. DISRUPTIVE POWER – employees of an

organization might go on strike as part of a
demand for better working conditions, or for
settling unfair labor practices.
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Community Engagement, Solidarity,

and Citizenship (CSC)

is the community’s capital, tools and skills, and

It is the interface between humanity and the

2. ECONOMIC ELEMENT OF COMMUNITY

3. POLITICAL ELEMENT OF COMMUNITY

4. INSTITUTIONAL OR SOCIAL ELEMENT OF

1. DYNAMICS OF COMMUNITY POWER

– citizens certainly possess the power to act on their

2. DYNAMICS OF COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP

– developing and supporting equitable, just

– social interaction is an important aspect in

4. DYNAMICS OF SOCIAL CHANGE

– community organizing is the process by which

• INFORMAL POWER STRUCTURE exists alongside

• INFLUENCERS – individuals or groups who do not

1. POLITICAL OR LEGISLATIVE POWER - for

2. CONSUMER POWER – your organization

3. LEGAL REGULATORY POWER – your

4. DISRUPTIVE POWER – employees of an

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