COMMUNITY

STRUCTURE
Rrporter: Fritz Neri Date: 11/21/2019
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Community Political Structure

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Community Economic Structure
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 Community Poli cal
Structure
• refers to the people's established way of

01 allocating power and making decisions in running

and managing affairs.

• the community political stricture ensures that the

members' common needs are provided, that
peace and order is kept within the community, and
the community is secured from external threats.
 ELEMENTS OF COMMUNITY POLITICAL STRUCTURE

Political Citizenship Power

01 Organization 02 Norms 03 Relations
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Leadership
04 Structure
 Poli cal Organiza ons

Definition:

• Pertain to a political
party or political group
who are involved in
political activity
Political Party

• engaged in partisan politics where they campaign to certain

people to become leaders in their local government
• Compete for political power and control so that they can put
their political ideologies and policies into effect
Political Groups

• are involved in promoting certain political, moral, religion,

and even commercial causes for the benefit of their
members.
• They may/can be in the form of advocacy groups, pressure
groups, lobby groups, campaign groups, and interest
groups.
Ci zenship Norms
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• are the "shared set of
expectations about citizens' role
in politics."
• These norms are focused on
three(3) areas: Political, Policy,
and Social.
Politics Involvement

• Citizen involvement is expected in the political

participation in as much, as selecting leaders and
influencing the behavior of the political decisions-
maker are concerned.
Policy-making Involvement

• Policy participation focuses on the role of citizens in

regulation-that is, participation in the crafting of laws
and policies.
Social Involvement

• social participation concerns active citizen involvement

in the political and administrative system.This,
accordingly, may be done by developing systems of
mutual support to reach common goals (like
public—private partnerships) and by encouraging other
citizens to be involved withsocial issues and to help in
promoting the common good.
Power Rela ons
• pertain to how different
groups in the community are
able to interact with and
control other groups.
• Such would require an
understanding and
identification of the dominant
groups and minority groups
in the community
Dominant Group

• Dominant groups are usually those who are able to

control the value systems, rewards, and resources of
the community.
Minority Group

• On the other hand, minority groups are those whose

voices are muted and are considered subordinate to
either the authority or influence of the dominant
group. Minority groups can include the poor
members of the community, women and children, or
those who are considered culturally or ethnically
distinct.
 Aside from identifying dominant and
minority groups, power relations is also
concerned with knowing the formal and
informal leaders in the community, who
exert influence on the decision making
processes of community affairs.
 LEADERSHIP STRUCTURE

Definition:

refers to the composition of

recognized leaders (formal and
informal) in the community and the
lines or workflow of their authority.
The leadership structure could be
hierarchical (top—down leadership)
or egalitarian (horiztal leadership).
 Community Economic
Structure
• pertains to various organized ways and means through

02 which the people in the community produce goods and

services, allocate limited resources, and generate
wealth in order to satisfy their needs and wants.
 ELEMENTS OF COMMUNITY ECONOMIC
STRUCTURE

01 Capital Assets 02 Vulnerability

Context

Business
03 04 Trade
Climate
Capital Assets

• refers to a property or anything that is owned and

has an economic value, which is expected to
generate profit for a long period of time.
• There are five types of assets that can be found in
the community: human capital, social capital,
natural capital, physical capital, and financial capital.
Human Capital

• pertains to the labor force in the community and

their background in terms of health, nutrition,
education, knowledge and skills, capacity to work,
and capacity to adapt.
Social Capital

• refers to the collective value of social networks and

connections (patronage, neighborhoods, kinship),
and inclinations that arise in order to provide mutual
support.
Natural Capital

• refers to land and produce, water and aquatic

resources, trees and forest products, wildlife,
biodiversity, and environmental services.
Physical Capital

• refers to infrastructure (transport, roads, vehicles,

secure shelter and buildings, water supply and
sanitation, energy, communications), and tools and
technology (tools and equipment for production,
seed, fertilizer, pesticides traditional technology).
Financial Capital

• refers to savings, credit and debt (formal, informal),

remittances, pensions, and wages.
Vulnerability context
• pertains to the insecurity in the well-being of individual
and households in the community, which may be in the
form of sudden shocks (e.g. conflict, illnesses, floods,
storms, droughts, pests, diseases), seasonalities (e.g.,
prices and employment opportunities), and critical
trends, (e.g.demographic, environmental, economic,
governance, and technological trends) (Moser 1998).
Business Climate

• refers to the attitudes, laws, regulations, and

policies of the government and lending institutions
toward businesses, enterprises, and business
activities
Trade

• pertains to small, medium, and even large-scale

enterprises and business activities involving the
sale and purchase of goods, services, and
information.
The social, cultural, political, and economic structures
found in the community serve as invisible scaffolds
that determine people's interaction with one another.
These structures, created by people themselves out
of daily interaction with other people, eventually
developed into a routine or habit. Eventually, due to
repetitive acts and the passing down from one
generation to the other, such routine or habit
developed a life of its own—apart from the people who
created them
The social, cultural, political, and economic structures
found in the community serve as invisible scaffolds
that determine people's interaction with one another.
These structures, created by people themselves out
of daily interaction with other people, eventually
developed into a routine or habit. Eventually, due to
repetitive acts and the passing down from one
generation to the other, such routine or habit
developed a life of its own—apart from the people who
created them
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