EN COMM ACTIVITY 2

Name: Cris Paolo S. Cornelia Subject Teacher: Lemuel C. Eltanal

Year Level & Course: 1st year BA General Curriculum Section: B

WORKSHEET 3

Activity 1: Analyze and Identify

1. This involves developing a list of leaders and active participants in committee works in key
community voluntary associations.
Answer: Social Participation Method
2. The selection of many knowledgeable community citizens who can provide a list of power actors.
Answer: Reputational Method
3. In this type of community power structure, power becomes an attribute of an individual and it is
widely distributed to the members of the community.
Answer: Pluralist
4. This is the attainment of influence by virtue of family prominence, positions held, past
achievements, or personal prestige.
Answer: Status
5. It is the demographic process relating to deaths, often summarized by death rates, survival rates,
and life expectancy.
Answer: Mortality
6. This refers to the use of artificial contraception or natural means to prevent delay or even
terminate pregnancy.
Answer: Birth control methods
7. The attainment of influence by virtue of possessing hard-earned specific knowledge and abilities.
Answer: Expertise
8. It refers to the actual reproductive performance that can be expected of a person, couple, group,
or population during a woman’s childbearing years.
Answer: Fertility
9. The kind of power that one has over another by virtue of an elected position or an office
appointment that is based on codified laws and regulations.
Answer: Authority
10. Refer to the norms that need to be followed before man and a woman are allowed to unite
as a couple and produce an offspring.
Answer: Social preconditions of marriage

Activity 2: As Concerned Citizens

1. What is the essential difference between pluralist and elitist communities?

- A manner of viewing a political system is formed by the opposing belief systems
of elitism and pluralism. The political system, comprising the institutions like the
government, army, parliament, etc., can be studied using this attitude system. A
belief system known as pluralism supports the coexistence of various power
structures and is actually an ideal society in which no one dominates the others.
Before coming to a choice that is supported by the majority of the population,
debate and involvement are key components of decision-making. This approach
also reflects the opinions of the majority. Therefore, pluralism and democracy
have a lot in common.
 Every nation has a small number of influential groups and individuals whose
opinions are carefully considered before big decisions are made. These people
may have been born into a privileged class or possess unique qualities like
exceptional talent or extensive experience in a particular sector. Such individuals
and groups are considered as the elite segment of society and their views and
opinions are accepted seriously. Sometimes the only requirement for classifying
someone as elite is their level of money. In this system, the elite continue to hold
superior status to the public and continue to hold a disproportionate amount of the
nation's power.

2. What is the essential difference between factional and amorphous communities?

- When it comes to communal concerns, there is a lot of political group in-fighting
in factional groups, which frequently leads to arguments and tense discussions. In
this kind of community power structure, influence is shared across many different
interest groups that have roughly equal power yet compete to dominate or control
communal affairs. Instead of addressing concerns in the community, such interest
groups are more concerned with eliminating one another. Once they possess the
majority of the formal structures of power, they will be able to depose their rivals.
Once in power, they are primarily concerned with upholding and coordinating
local policies with their corresponding political, religious, ethnic, racial, and/or
economic ideology.

On the other side, individuals in an amorphous community lack initiative and

direction and fail to recognize the need for change. It might be challenging to tell
people with formal power from from those with informal influence in this type of
setting. In some communities, there appears to be no discernible power in this
kind of power system. Although they do exist, power figures frequently seem
content with the way things are.

3. Why is it important to understand the dominant type of power structure in the

community?
In its simplest form, power is the capacity to exert control or influence over
another individual or group. Although most people who interact and work with
their community power actors do not perceive them as having a distinctive aura,
you can be sure that the community power actor has a different perception of
himself or herself. Due to the sharp rise in the number of power groups
functioning within local communities, the period of change in our communities is
accelerating quickly. These dominant groups want and need a higher standard of
living for both them and others. The type of interactions you have with the power
network will decide any future benefits or rewards.

It is extremely desirable to have the abilities required to work effectively with

community power actors as a member of the community and as an advocate for
bettering lifestyles. Such abilities are required to reduce potential disputes and
increase access to beneficial resources. Communities and their residents might
become the focal point of the low-carbon transition with the support of
community power. They are directly involved in energy decisions, and it gives
them more power to change to a more sustainable way of living.