Community Engagement,

Solidarity and Citizenship

Quarter 1 – Module 1:
The Concept of Community, Community Action
and Dynamics in Social Sciences (Part I)
Community Engagement, Solidarity and Citizenship – Grade 12
Alternative Delivery Mode
Quarter 1 – Module 1: The Concept of Community, Community Action and Dynamics in
Social Sciences (Part I)
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 Community
Engagement, Solidarity
and Citizenship
Quarter 1 – Module 1:
The Concept of Community,
Community Action and Dynamics
in Social Sciences
(Part I)
Introductory Message

For the facilitator:

Welcome to the Community, Engagement, Solidarity and Citizenship – Grade

12 Alternative Delivery Mode (ADM) Module on The Concept of Community,
Community Action and Dynamics in Social Sciences (Part I).

This module was collaboratively designed, developed and reviewed by

educators both from public and private institutions to assist you, the teacher or
facilitator in helping the learners meet the standards set by the K to 12 Curriculum
while overcoming their personal, social, and economic constraints in schooling.

This learning resource hopes to engage the learners into guided and
independent learning activities at their own pace and time. Furthermore, this also
aims to help learners acquire the needed 21st century skills while taking into
consideration their needs and circumstances.

In addition to the material in the main text, you will also see this box in the
body of the module:

Notes to the Teacher

This contains helpful tips or strategies that
will help you in guiding the learners.

As a facilitator you are expected to orient the learners on how to use this
module. You also need to keep track of the learners' progress while allowing them to
manage their own learning. Furthermore, you are expected to encourage and assist
the learners as they do the tasks included in the module.

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For the learner:

Welcome to the Community Engagement, Solidarity and Citizenship – Grade

12 Alternative Delivery Mode (ADM) Module on The Concept of Community,
Community Action and Dynamics in Social Sciences (Part I).

The concept of community has been a great part of our lives since we were
born in this world. It is often used to depict the ideas in social, political, and cultural
landscape of every community. In our community, we create common beliefs,
language, and shared interest. Hence, the concept of community in this learning
resource signifies that you, as a learner, is part of empowered in our society that can
achieve the relevant lessons and can enhance your knowledge and skills at your own
pace and time. This module will give you an exciting and fulfilling activities to
understand your community!

This module was designed to provide you with fun and meaningful
opportunities for guided and independent learning at your own pace and time. You
will be enabled to process the contents of the learning resource while being an active
learner.

This module has the following parts and corresponding icons:

What I Need to Know This will give you an idea of the skills or
competencies you are expected to learn in the
module.

What I Know This part includes an activity that aims to

check what you already know about the
lesson to take. If you get all the answers
correct (100%), you may decide to skip this
module.

What’s In This is a brief drill or review to help you link

the current lesson with the previous one.

What’s New In this portion, the new lesson will be

introduced to you in various ways such as a
story, a song, a poem, a problem opener, an
activity or a situation.

What is It This section provides a brief discussion of the

lesson. This aims to help you discover and
understand new concepts and skills.

What’s More This comprises activities for independent

practice to solidify your understanding and
skills of the topic. You may check the
answers to the exercises using the Answer
Key at the end of the module.

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 What I Have Learned This includes questions or blank
sentence/paragraph to be filled into process
what you learned from the lesson.

What I Can Do This section provides an activity which will

help you transfer your new knowledge or skill
into real life situations or concerns.

Assessment This is a task which aims to evaluate your

level of mastery in achieving the learning
competency.

Additional Activities In this portion, another activity will be given

to you to enrich your knowledge or skill of the
lesson learned. This also tends retention of
learned concepts.

Answer Key This contains answers to all activities in the

module.

At the end of this module you will also find:

References This is a list of all sources used in developing

this module.

The following are some reminders in using this module:

1. Use the module with care. Do not put unnecessary mark/s on any part of the
module. Use a separate sheet of paper in answering the exercises.
2. Don’t forget to answer What I Know before moving on to the other activities
included in the module.
3. Read the instruction carefully before doing each task.
4. Observe honesty and integrity in doing the tasks and checking your answers.
5. Finish the task at hand before proceeding to the next.
6. Return this module to your teacher/facilitator once you are through with it.
If you encounter any difficulty in answering the tasks in this module, do not
hesitate to consult your teacher or facilitator. Always bear in mind that you are
not alone.

We hope that through this material, you will experience meaningful learning and
gain deep understanding of the relevant competencies. You can do it!

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 What I Need to Know

This module was conceptualized and written to help you explain and analyze
the different perspectives of community in the Social Science discipline. Also,
communities are varied from each other because it offers a wide range of diversity in
every society.

They are many concepts of community in which you must understand. These
concepts are related to the realities that a person’s experience inside the community
could be social, cultural, political, and economic situation. In relation, these ideas
will be a great help to depict the complexities of community in both internal and
external factors in which the applied Social Science discipline offers possible career
options for you to be a successful professional in the future.

The aim of this module is to explain and analyze the different perspective of
community in relation to the issues and concerns that they experience wherein it will
help you to learn and used it for further studies particularly in social sciences.

At the end of this module, you are expected to learn the following:

1. Explain the importance of studying community dynamics and community action

in relation to applied social sciences and the learners' future career options
(HUMSS_CSC12-IIIa-c-1)
a. Identify the concept of community and its importance;
b. Relate the definition of community dynamics and community action in
social discipline; and
c. Recognize the various career options in applied social sciences for
community action initiatives.

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 What I Know

Direction: Identify what is being described in the sentence. Choose the answer from
the word pool below and write it in your notebook.

WORD POOL

Society Social Worker Economics Culture Diverse Politics

Sociology Collaboration Anthropologist Community Dynamics

Community Race Geographer People Community Action

________1. The study of development, structure, and functioning of human society.

________2. A human being living inside the community.
________3. An expert in the study of the physical features of the community.
________4. A group of people who have something in common.
________5. A profession concerned with helping individuals, families, groups, and
communities to enhance their individual and collective well-being.
________6. It is an activity that increases the understanding, engagement, and
empowerment of communities.
________7. It is a group of people based upon physical characteristics, ethnic
background, and geographic roots.
________8. It is a spirit of good fellowship and loyalty among members of community.
________9. A concept that associated with the governance of a community.
________10. A range of different things.
________11. The way of life of group of people.
________12. The forces or properties that stimulate growth, development, or change
within a system or process.
________13. A person who study the aspect of humans within past and present
societies.
________14. A group of people living as a community or an organized group of people
for a common purpose.
________15. It is concerned with the production, consumption, and transfer of wealth
of a community

You are doing great!

I guess you are ready to learn more about the concept of Community,
Community Dynamics, and Action in Social Sciences. Are you excited? Come on, let
us start!

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 Lesson

1 The concept of Community

Every community has its own concept and realities. This may vary from each
situation that a person experienced. There are many definitions of community that
depicts the life experiences of every individual in social, cultural, economic, and
political landscape.

Understanding the definition of community will give you a clear picture and a
good grasp on the shared beliefs, traditions, behavior, rules, and norms that
represents the individual members of a group.

Being a member, you must know the community initiatives and actions in
your surroundings. This implies to the programs and projects in addressing the
needs of everyone in the community.

It is important for you to study the concept of community wherein it relates

your personal concerns to a wider perspective.

Let us start to learn the different concepts of community and its importance!

What’s In

Direction: Using the concept map below, fill-in your insights about your own concept
of community. Use your journal in answering this activity.

Community

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 Notes to the Teacher
This lesson will give the learners the idea on how they will identify
the different perspective of community and its importance in the
Social Science discipline.

What’s New

Direction: In each picture below, explain your perspective about community. Write
the answer in your notebook.

RUBRIC FOR THE ESSAY

Criteria 5 4 3 2 1
The The The situation The The
situation situation and opinion situation situation
Quality of and opinion and opinion were vague and opinion and opinion
Writing given was were and general. given was given was
excellent. informative somehow poorly
and not related organized
organized. to the and not
concepts. related to
the given
concept.
No Few spelling Almost half Every Many
grammatical or of the answer paragraph spelling or
Grammar errors grammatical contains contains grammatical
Usage errors spelling or spelling or errors
grammatical grammatical
error errors.

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 What is It

Very good!

Now, after finishing two activities, you must get your notebook and pen and
carefully read the lesson. It is important for you to read and analyze the context of
this lesson.

Let us continue the discussion!

Based on the book of (Abenir and Alipao 2016), the word

"community" is derived from Latin and has been used in the
English language since the 14th century. The word community is
derived from the Latin “communitas” (meaning the same), which is
in turn derived from “communis”, which means “common, public,
shared by all or many".

According to (Abenir and Alipao 2016), there are many definitions of

community, but it emphasized seven definitions on this concept:

1. It is a group of people living in the same place or having a characteristic in

common such as norms, religion, values, or identity.
2. It is a group of people who share the same things, such as: where they live,
work and play.
3. It is also a place where people solve problems together in a form of
collaboration and teamwork.
4. It could be characterized by age group, race, gender, religion, shared beliefs,
traditions, rules, market structure and location.
5. It is a durable relation that extend beyond immediate genealogical ties also
define a sense of community.
6. It defines as social ties in their identity, practice, and roles in social
institutions (such as family, home, work, government, society, or humanity
at-large).
7. It refers on the feeling of fellowship with others, because of sharing common
attitudes, interests, and goals.

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 As cited in (Melegrito, et.al 2016) for us, the term community is related with
belongingness, togetherness, camaraderie and like peaceful and social relations
among the members.

Why do we need to study the concept of community?

1. It aims to enhance your sense of shared identity and willingness to

contribute to the pursuit of the common good of the community.
2. It enables you to integrate applied social sciences in solving social
problems and issues into community-action initiatives.
3. It gives you a holistic perspective in which socialization, collaboration and
camaraderie are vital in improving the quality of life in the community.

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 What’s More

Directions: Supply an appropriate word to make each statement complete. Write the
answer on your notebook.

1. It is a living in the same place or having characteristic in common

such as , (1) _________, (2) ________, or .

2. It is a (3) __________ who share same things, such as where they

(4) _________ and (5) __________.

3. It is also a where people solve problems together in a form of

(6) _________ and (7) __________.

4. It could be characterized by , , (8) ________, (9) ________

, (10) ___________, market structure and location.

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 What I Have Learned

We have different definitions of community. As a member, you should be

familiar on the terms that comprise the concept of community.

The etymology of the word “community” is derived from Latin word and has
been used in the English language since the 14th century. The word community is
derived from the Latin “communitas” (meaning the same), which is in turn derived
from “communis”, which means “common, public, shared by all or many".

In addition, community comprises of group of people living in the same place

or having a characteristic in common such as norms, religion, values, or identity and
shared the place they are living and solve their problems in a collaborative and
teamwork. Moreover, it is characterized by age group, race, gender, religion, shared
beliefs, traditions, rules, market structure and location.

It is very important to the reason why do we study the concept of community.

In which, this term is related to the concept of togetherness, camaraderie, and
peaceful social relations among members.

Thus, being a HUMSS student you should remember that you will be an agent
of change in the future. It is vital for you to integrate the necessary knowledge and
skills in social sciences for you to be able to help and innovate community action in
your place.

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 What I Can Do

Direction: Answer the following questions that pertains on the importance of

studying the community. Write the answer in your notebook.

1. In your own perception, what do you think is the importance of studying

community? Cite situations and examples (10 points)
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
2. As a student, how can you help lessen the diversity issues now in your
community? Cite situations and examples (10 points)
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
3. As a member of the community, what projects or programs in your barangay
or school you participated for the past 4 years? State the project and how did
you participate on that community effort. Example: Brigada Eskwela (10
points)
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________

RUBRIC FOR THE ESSAY

Criteria 5 4 3 2 1
The The The situation The The
situation situation and opinion situation situation
Quality of and opinion and opinion were vague and opinion and opinion
Writing given was were and general. given was given was
excellent. informative somehow poorly
and not related organized
organized. to the and not
concepts. related to
the given
concept.
No Few spelling Almost half Every Many
grammatical or of the answer paragraph spelling or
Grammar errors grammatical contains contains grammatical
Usage errors spelling or spelling or errors
grammatical grammatical
error errors.

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 Assessment

Direction: Match column A to column B. Write the letter of your answer in your
journal.

COLUMN A COLUMN B

1. The word "community" is derived a. shared identity and willingness

from ____ word.
2. The word “community” has been b. applied social sciences
used in the English language
since the _________.
3. The word community is derived c. belongingness
from the Latin “communitas” and
it means _________.
4. It is also derived from d. holistic perspective
“communis”, which means ____.
5. They emphasized ____ definitions e. The same
of community.
6. In studying community, it f. collaboration and teamwork
enables you to integrate
__________.
7. The term community is also a g. 14th century
place where people solve
problems together in a form of
___________________.
8. It aims to enhance your sense of h. seven
_________________ to contribute to
the pursuit of the common good
of the community.
9. The term community is related i. Latin
with ____________.
10. It gives you a _____________ in j. common, public, shared by all or
which socialization, collaboration many
and camaraderie are vital in
improving the quality of life in the
community.
k. three

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 Additional Activities

Direction: Answer the following questions that pertain on the sense of camaraderie
in the community. Write the answer in your notebook.

Pick one song lyric that depicts a community teamwork, collaboration, or

belongingness. Cite the lyrics, song title and composer.

Example: Magkaisa by Virna Lisa

Questions:

1. What lyrics or stanza in the song depicts the of purpose of belongingness

in the community? Explain your answer (10 points)
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________

2. How did this song make you feel about community effort? (10 points)
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________

RUBRIC FOR THE ESSAY

Criteria 5 4 3 2 1
The The The situation The The
situation situation and opinion situation situation
Quality of and opinion and opinion were vague and opinion and opinion
Writing given was were and general. given was given was
excellent. informative somehow poorly
and not related organized
organized. to the and not
concepts. related to
the given
concept.
No Few spelling Almost half Every Many
grammatical or of the answer paragraph spelling or
Grammar errors grammatical contains contains grammatical
Usage errors spelling or spelling or errors
grammatical grammatical
error errors.

Very good!

You can now proceed to the next lesson of this module!

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Assessment:
What’s More: What I Know:
1. i 1. Religion 1. Sociology
2. People
2. g 2. Values 3. Geographer
3. Groups of 4. Community
3. e 5. Social Worker
People
6. Community
4. j 4. Work Action
5. Play 7. Race
5. h
8. Camaraderie
6. Collaboration 9. Politics
6. b
7. Teamwork 10.Diverse
7. f 11.Culture
8. Gender
12.Community
8. a 9. Shared Dynamics
beliefs 13.Anthropologist
9. c 14.Society
10.Rules 15.Economics
10.d
Answer Key
References

Abenir, M. and Alipao, F., 2016. Community Engagement, Solidarity and Citizenship.
1st ed. Manila: Diwa Publishing House Inc., pp.3-4.

Department of Education - Philippines. 2016. K to 12 Senior High School Curriculum

Guide. Community Engagement Solidarity and Citizenship

Department of Education - Philippines. 2020. Most Essential Learning

Competencies. Community Engagement Solidarity and Citizenship

Melgrito, M. and Mendoza, D., 2016. Zeal for Action: Community Engagement,
Solidarity and Citizenship. 1st ed. Manila: Phoenix Publishing House Inc.,
pp.14-16.

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 Lesson
Different Perspectives of the
2 Community
In the last lesson, the term community was discussed to you. Community as
a concept have many variations. It explains different parts and is therefore seen in
various perspective. The varying ideas come because of different perspectives of the
different academic discipline and sectors.

It is significant to be acquainted with the different perspectives on the

community to appreciate why certain things are seen and done differently when it
comes to community interventions. In which, the members of the community on what
they are saying and doing depends mainly on their perspectives. Several of these
perspectives are discussed in this lesson.

Let us start to learn the different perspectives of the community!

What’s In

Directions: Using the Venn diagram, compare the two concepts which are Social
Science and Applied Social Science. Write the answer in your notebook.

Social Science Applied Social

Science

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 Notes to the Teacher
This lesson will give the learners the idea on how they will explain
the different perspective of community and its importance in the
Social Science discipline.

What’s New

Direction: Read and analyze the article and answer the following questions below.
Write the answer in your notebook.

The Elephant and the Blind Men

By: James Baldwin

There were once six blind men who stood by the roadside every day and
begged from the people who passed. They had often heard of elephants, but
they had never seen one; for, being blind, how could they?

It so happened one morning that an elephant was driven down the road
where they stood. When they were told that the great beast was before them,
they asked the driver to let him stop so that they might see him.

Of course, they could not see him with their eyes; but they thought that
by touching him they could learn just what kind of animal he was.

The first one happened to put his hand on the elephant's side. "Well,
well!" he said, "now I know all about this beast. He is exactly like a wall."

The second felt only of the elephant's tusk. "My brother," he said, "you
are mistaken. He is not at all like a wall. He is round and smooth and sharp.
He is more like a spear than anything else."

The third happened to take hold of the elephant's trunk. "Both of you
are wrong," he said. "Anybody who knows anything can see that this elephant
is like a snake."

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 The fourth reached out his arms and grasped one of the elephant's legs.
"Oh, how blind you are!" he said. "It is very plain to me that he is round and
tall like a tree."

The fifth was a very tall man, and he chanced to take hold of the
elephant's ear. "The blindest man ought to know that this beast is not like any
of the things that you name," he said. "He is exactly like a huge fan."

The sixth was very blind indeed, and it was some time before he could
find the elephant at all. At last he seized the animal's tail. "O foolish fellows!"
he cried. "You surely have lost your senses. This elephant is not like a wall, or
a spear, or a snake, or a tree; neither is he like a fan. But any man with a
particle of sense can see that he is exactly like a rope."

Then the elephant moved on, and the six blind men sat by the roadside
all day and quarreled about him. Each believed that he knew just how the
animal looked; and each called the others hard names because they did not
agree with him. People who have eyes sometimes act as foolishly.

Source: https://americanliterature.com/author/james-baldwin/short-story/the-
blind-men-and-the-elephant

Questions:

1. What does this story tell you?

2. What factors affect our different perspectives of reality?
3. What significance can this story have on the study of the community?

RUBRIC FOR THE ESSAY

Criteria 5 4 3 2 1
The The The situation The The
situation situation and opinion situation situation
Quality of and opinion and opinion were vague and opinion and opinion
Writing given was were and general. given was given was
excellent. informative somehow poorly
and not related organized
organized. to the and not
concepts. related to
the given
concept.
No Few spelling Almost half Every Many
grammatical or of the answer paragraph spelling or
Grammar errors grammatical contains contains grammatical
Usage errors spelling or spelling or errors
grammatical grammatical
error errors.

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 What is It

Excellent!

It is time for you to read our new lesson. Get your pen and
notebook so that you can jot down important notes while you are
reading. It is important for you to analyze and carefully read the lesson.

Let us continue the discussion!

Based on the book of (Melegrito et. al 2016), a community

can also be defined by describing the social and political
networks that link individuals, community organizations, and
leaders. Understanding these networks is critical to planning
efforts in engagement in a various perspective. Below are the
different perspectives of community:

1. Community as a Social Science Perspective (Melegrito et. al 2016)

• In the perspective of Social Science, a community is a congregation of
people unified by at least one common characteristic.
• The people can be unified by geography, shared interests, values,
experiences, or traditions
• It implies that socialization is an integral part of community wherein
behavior patterns are present.
• Socialization - starts at the early age of a community member in which
it develops knowledge, skills, and orientation. Also, it happens during
adulthood especially when the person is placed in a new environment,
and there is a need to adapt to a new pattern of behavior.

2. Community as an Applied Social Science Perspective (Abenir and

Alipao 2016)
• The study that uses the knowledge-based theories, principles, and
methods of interdisciplinary disciplines of basic social science to
understand the society and to help address or solve a social problem or
practical problem in the community.
• The study of society in which influence, resilience, positivity, and
proper communication among the members of the community.

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 • It provides significant benefits to its members by giving social services
that could contribute to the community.

3. Local and Grassroots Level in the community (Melegrito et. al 2016)

• Setting for intervention – the community is mainly defined
geographically. It entails that interventions may be implemented at
various places within community institutions such as schools,
churches, work areas and community organizations and concerning
with projects of health, education, and other social services.
• Target for change – the community denotes the goal of creating a
healthy environment facilitated by policy and community wide
institutions and services. The community is the target beneficiary of
service intervention and community development.
• Resource – the community is a good material for promotion as it has
considerable degree of community ownership and participation.
• Agent – this refers that communities, through local institutions,
provide resources for realizing regular needs (Stuart 2003).

4. Ecological Perspective in the community (Melegrito et. al 2016)

• This perspective defines community is a congregation of species that
occur together in time and space and have high probability of
interaction.
• The major component of ecological perspective is the concept of social
ecology by (Bronfenbrenner 1979).
• Social Ecology – is comprised of the development history of the
individuals, the psychological characteristics (norms, values,
attitudes), interpersonal relationships (family, social networks),
neighborhood, organizations, public policy, physical environment and
culture.

5. Community as Sectoral Perspective (Melegrito et. al 2016)

• In this perspective, the term community is perceived as a structure that
includes individuals and sectors with diverse characteristics and
interrelationships (Thomson et.al 1990 as cited by CDCP and Melegrito
et. al 2016).
• This perspective emphasized that every sector in the community has
different roles within their advocacies or programs to sustain the
requirements of the members or the beneficiaries.

6. Community as Civil Society Perspective (Melegrito et. al 2016)

• Civil society – refers as a wide array of nongovernmental organizations
and volunteer groups that are initiating for solutions to social problems
on the marginalized sectors of the community.
• It highlighted that community as a civil society perspective which
comprises of people, structures, programs and solving social issues
with positive outcome.

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 What’s More

Direction: Below are the icons on the different perspective of the community, analyze
and rearranged the jumbled letters that corresponds to the icon. Write
the answer in your notebook.

LIVIC OCITYSE COSIAL ECISNEC LACSOI YELGOCO

1. ___________________ 2. ___________________ 3. ___________________

ISICILAZATOON TAGEN SORCTE

4. ___________________ 5. ___________________ 6. ___________________

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 What I Have Learned

As you learned the concept of community in the past lesson it is defined that
social, cultural, political and economic aspect are the various viewpoints in this
concept. At this moment, you should be familiar on the different perspective of the
community. It is evident that community have many viewpoints that you must
understand in which social science, applied social science, local and grassroot level,
sectoral, ecological and civil society perspective.

In addition, a community can also be defined by describing the social and

political networks that link individuals, community organizations, and leaders.
Understanding these networks is critical to planning efforts in engagement in a
various perspective.

Therefore, in the perspective of social science, a community is a congregation

of people unified by at least one common characteristic. It implies that socialization
is an integral part of community wherein behavior patterns are present. Hence,
applied social science pertains to the study that uses the knowledge-based theories,
principles, and methods of interdisciplinary disciplines of basic social science to
understand the society and to help address or solve a social problem or practical
problem in the community.

Moreover, it is very important to know the local and grassroot level in the
community. You should be familiarized that this concept has sub-concept wherein it
includes: (1) setting for intervention (2) target for change (3) Resource and (4) Agent.
Another perspective is ecological perspective wherein it defines community is a
congregation of species that occur together in time and space and have high
probability of interaction. According to (Bronfenbrenner 1979), social ecology is a
major component of ecological perspective in the community.

Furthermore, this sectoral perspective emphasized that every sector in the

community has different roles within their advocacies or programs to sustain the
requirements of the members or the beneficiaries. Besides, it highlighted that
community as a civil society perspective which comprises of people, structures,
programs and solving social issues with positive outcome.

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 What I Can Do

Directions: Answer the following questions that pertains on the importance of

studying the different perspective in the community. Write the answer
in your notebook.

1. In your own perception, what do you think is the importance of different

perspectives in the community? Cite situations and examples (10 points)
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2. As a HUMSS student, what perspective of the community depicts your
experience? Cite situations and examples (10 points)
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3. Give three examples of contributions of different public and private sectoral
groups in your community? (10 points) Example: DSWD – 4Ps, Scholarships
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RUBRIC FOR THE ESSAY

Criteria 5 4 3 2 1
The The The situation The The
situation situation and opinion situation situation
Quality of and opinion and opinion were vague and opinion and opinion
Writing given was were and general. given was given was
excellent. informative somehow poorly
and not related organized
organized. to the and not
concepts. related to
the given
concept.
No Few spelling Almost half Every Many
grammatical or of the answer paragraph spelling or
Grammar errors grammatical contains contains grammatical
Usage errors spelling or spelling or errors
grammatical grammatical
error errors.

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 Assessment

Directions: Draw if the statement is correct and if the sentence is incorrect.

Write the answer in your notebook.

1. Setting for intervention emphasized that the community is mainly

defined geographically.

2. Resource entails that the community denotes the goal of creating a

healthy environment facilitated by policy and community wide
institutions and services.

3. Agent refers that the community is a good material for promotion as

it has considerable degree of community ownership and
participation.

4. Target for change highlighted that the community is a good material

for promotion as it has considerable degree of community ownership
and participation.

5. Sectoral perspective emphasized that every sector in the community

has different roles within their advocacies or programs to sustain the
requirements of the members or the beneficiaries.

6. The major component of ecological perspective is the concept of

social ecology by (Bronfenbrenner 1979).

7. It implies that socialization is an integral part of community wherein

behavior patterns are present.

8. Community as social science provides significant benefits to its

members by giving social services that could contribute to the
community

9. Social Ecology is comprised of the development history of the

individuals, the psychological characteristics (norms, values,
attitudes), interpersonal relationships (family, social networks),
neighborhood, organizations, public policy, physical environment
and culture.

10. In the perspective of applied social science, a community is a

congregation of people unified by at least one common
characteristic.

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 Additional Activities

Direction: In a short bond paper, illustrate a poster that describes the different
perspectives of the community.

RUBRICS FOR THE POSTER

Criteria 5 4 3 2 1
The poster Almost all Some Minimal Many
includes all the required required required required
Required required elements elements elements elements
Elements elements as are included are included are are missing.
well as on the on the included
additional poster. poster. on the
information. poster.

All graphics Almost all Some Minimal Graphics do

are related graphics are graphics are graphics not relate
Graphics - to the topic related related to are related to the topic
Relevance and make it to the topic the to the topic
easier to and most topic.
understand make it
easier to
understand
The poster is The poster The poster The poster The poster
very is attractive is somewhat is is
Attractive attractive in terms of attractive acceptably distractingly
in terms of design, in terms of attractive messy or
design, layout, and design, though it poorly
layout, and neatness. layout, and may be a designed. It
neatness. neatness. bit is not
messy. attractive.

Congratulations!

You can now proceed to the next module!

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Assessment: What’s More: What’s in:
1. a 1. Common good
2. volunteering
2. a 3. Community 1. Counselor
3. c organizing
4. Max Weber
4. b 2. Community
5. Social action
5. a 6. Community
6. a engagement Development
7. planning
7. b
8. design
8. c 9. building Specialist
9. d community and
social capacity
10.c 10.community 3. Broadcaster
11.a resilience
11.Journalist
12.d 4. Social Worker
12.Counselor
13.c 13.Community
14.b Development 5. Journalist
Specialist
15.c 14.Guidance
15.opportunities
Answer Key
References

Abenir, M. and Alipao, F., 2016. Community Engagement, Solidarity and Citizenship.
1st ed. Manila: Diwa Publishing House Inc., pp.7-9.

Baldwin, J. 2004. The Elephant and the Blind Men (A Short Story)
https://americanliterature.com/author/james-baldwin/short-story/the-blind-men-
and-the-elephant. Accessed: June 21, 2020

Bronfenbrenner, U. 1979. The ecology of human development: Experiments by

nature and design. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.

Department of Education - Philippines. 2016. K to 12 Senior High School Curriculum

Guide. Community Engagement Solidarity and Citizenship

Department of Education - Philippines. 2020. Most Essential Learning

Competencies. Community Engagement Solidarity and Citizenship

Melgrito, M. and Mendoza, D., 2016. Zeal for Action: Community Engagement,
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Stuart, D., 2003. Perspectives of the Community. Boston: McGraw Hill Publishing,
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Thompson, M., Ellis, R., and Wildavsky, A. B. 1990. Cultural Theory. Colorado.
Westview Press, Inc. pp. 25-30

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