Culminating Activity

Module 7: Community Engagement, Solidarity, and Citizenship

Subject Teacher: Mr. Mikko L. Domingo

Lesson Description:

This course focuses on the application of ideas and methods of the social sciences to understand, investigate and
examine the challenges of contemporary community life. This course focuses on the application of ideas and methods
of the social sciences to understand, investigate and examine the challenges of contemporary community life. 

Course Objectives:

A. Explain the importance of studying community dynamics and community action in relation to applied social
sciences and the learners' future career options.
B. Compare and contrast the definitions of the community using various perspective, e.g. Social science, institution,
civil society, and local/ grassroots leve

 Discussion

When one wants to study a community, he should have a clear understanding of

what is a community, community dynamics, and community action. Communities are
generally defined by their common cultural heritage, language, beliefs, and shared
interests. Community dynamics is the change and development involved in a
community that includes all forms of living organisms; whereas, community action is
putting communities as the center of service development and service delivery. This initiative aims to cater to the
primary needs of the communities before implementing it. In such a way, community action will help the community
dynamics or the degree of improvement of the community. It is important to understand these two because these will
propel the success and stability of the communities. They go hand in hand and are proportionally related.

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The dynamics of a community is determined by its nature and structure and how it reacts with external or internal
forces. It is thus important to recognize the characteristics and features of a community to understand why it acts and
reacts in a certain way. Here are the following features of community:

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1. A community has a sociological construct or a set of interactions or human behaviors

that have meaning and expectations between its members.

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2. A community has fuzzy or imprecise boundaries and has stayed that way to this day
people interact not only with fellows within their village but also outside of it.

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3. A community can exist within a larger community including districts, regions, ethnic groups, nations, and other
boundaries

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 4. A community may move--move to find work for a living.

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Moreover, a community, in order to have its dynamics at play, needs power actors to bring about its needed change.
These power actors should have the capacity to influence the decision-making and distribution processes to get things
done in a community. This reality indicates that work in a community or undertaking community interventions is a
challenging task. Finally, development work requires understanding community dynamics and processes.        When
one wants to study a community, he should have a clear understanding of what is a community, community dynamics,
and community action. Communities are generally defined by their common cultural heritage, language, beliefs, and
shared interests. Community dynamics is the change and development involved in a community that includes all
forms of living organisms; whereas, community action is putting communities as the center of service development
and service delivery. This initiative aims to cater to the primary needs of the communities before implementing it. In
such a way, community action will help the community dynamics or the degree of improvement of the community. It
is important to understand these two because these will propel the success and stability of the communities. They go
hand in hand and are proportionally related. 

The dynamics of a community is determined by its nature and structure and how it reacts with external or internal
forces. It is thus important to recognize the characteristics and features of a community to
understand why it acts and reacts in a certain way. Here are the following features of community:

1. A community has a sociological construct or a set of interactions or human behaviors that have
meaning and expectations between its members.

2. A community has fuzzy or imprecise boundaries and has stayed that way to this day people
interact not only with fellows within their village but also outside of it.

3. A community can exist within a larger community including districts, regions,

ethnic groups, nations, and other boundaries

4. A community may move--move to find work for a living. 

Moreover, a community, in order to have its dynamics at play, needs power actors to bring about its needed change.
These power actors should have the capacity to influence the decision-making and distribution processes to get things
done in a community. This reality indicates that work in a community or undertaking community interventions is a
challenging task. Finally, development work requires understanding community dynamics and processes.
 

-The End-
 Culminating Activity Week 5

Name:________________________________ Date____________________

Year and Section:_________________________________

Instruction

Tell whether the statement is true or false.

_________________1.   Communities are generally defined by their common cultural heritage, language, beliefs, and
shared interests.

_________________2. Community dynamics is the change and development involved in a community that includes
all forms of living organisms; whereas, community action is putting communities as the center of service development
and service delivery.

_________________ 3. The dynamics of a community is determined by its nature and structure and how it reacts with
external or internal forces.

_______________ 4.  A community has a sociological construct or a set of interactions or human behaviors that have
meaning and expectations between its members.

_________________5. A community has fuzzy or imprecise boundaries and has stayed that way to this day people
interact not only with fellows within their village but also outside of it.

_________________6. A community can exist within a larger community including districts, regions, ethnic groups,
nations, and other boundaries. 

_________________7 A community may move--move to find work for a living. . 

_________________8. A community as a concept is not solid and has different parts and is therefore seen from
various viewpoints.

 ________________ 9 Institutions are the core establishments that bind people toward specific advocacy or goal.

_________________10.  Government Institutions - As an institution, it grants its citizens liberties and rights.

Output

Create a graphic organizer about community and how the community work together.