SOCIAL SCIENCE
A SENSE OF COMMUNITY
McMillan and Chavis
- Called this phenomenon the ‘’ sense of
community’’
- Described one sentence ‘’ sense of
community is a feeling that the
members have belonging
ROLE OF TANOD
- Peace and order
THE 4 FACTORS OF
COMMUNITY
1. MEMBERSHIP – feeling of belonging or of a
SHARING A SENSE OF PERSONAL
RELATEDNESS
5 FOLLOWING ATTRIBUTES
1. BOUNDARIES – requirement are
usually proof of residents and
payment
2. (ES) EMOTIONAL SAFETY –
building boundaries and
including the right people, we
create trust and a feeling of
safety, we also have brgy. Tanod
3. (ASBI) A Sense of Belonging and
Identification – members feel
that they are welcome, fit in.
4. (PC) Personal Community –
members contribution and
sacrifices to the community
enhance their sense of
community
5. (ACSS) A Common Symbol
System – for Catholics, our parish
symbol of symbol is the image as
the Immaculate Conception. Las
pinas city re represented with the
logo of the bamboo organ
2. INFLUENCE – feeling that they are
influencing the community having influence
over its members. To sustain this factor the
community must have a regular meeting with
the majority of residents and involving them
in planning and implement
3. Integration and Fulfillment of Needs –
becoming of member of community, that
member gets he/she hoped to get by joining.
 The community must strive
to attain/sustain something
which is sense of belonging
 Community people need to
feel ‘’reward’’ in some ways
for their active participation
to continue to reside and
contribute to their
community
4. Shared emotional – all communities being
made up of people, have their unique story.
Members will have a history of experiences
together while they are in a community
THE FORMS OF COMMUNITY ACTION
- A community of people who are
experiencing the same situation tend
to connect with each other and pursue
a common goal and action.
- Manifesting of collective ownership of
a situation – a situation that generally
has an effect on them.
5 INGREDIENTS OF COMMUNITY
ACTIONS
1. (CC) Common context – people live in
a similar setting and or locality
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2. (CE) Common experience – people
encounter a comparable experience,
individually or collectively
3. (CUI)Common understanding of an
issue – people have more or less the
same view on the issue at hand
4. (CA) Common analysis – people went
through a process of analyzing the
issue and may have a similar take on
the issue
5. (An/A//A//C) An action that is
acceptable to the community – people
discuss and agree on what action and
agree on what action to take and who
will take the lead
The ingredients identified above are
what we call ‘’ must do’s ‘’ in
planning a community action.
4 general phases of community
organization process, which were
cited by address (1988)
1. (IIA/D)Issue identification,
analysis, and dissemination –
relevant community information,
consolidated, analyzed, defined,
processes and disseminated. It is
in this phase where ‘’ real needs’’
are determined from ‘’ felt needs’’
debates, dialogues, and sharing of
thoughts undertaken
2. (OM/C)On mobilization of
community – this phase is the
step of getting people, meet
together, discuss community
problems, plan a community,
formulate implementing
mechanisms
3. (OO) On organization – this is
the ‘’bolt in’’ phase where all the
resources, materials, and non-
materials, physical and spiritual
are mapped out and consolidated.
It s=is the phase where ‘’what is
lacking’’ and ‘’what is available’’
4. (OE) On education – this is the
skills ‘development or human
resource phase enhancement
phase. Members of the
community are provided with the
necessary knowledge and
orientation
- It is to be noted, that the process of
researching the level of a community
an advocacy together is not an easy
task
# Community dynamics is something
agents of community change have to
contend with and must learn to be
friend
To facilitate a process of appreciating
community dynamics, community 6
change agents must be aware of the
following:
1. Know the community issue its
history and root, how its growth,
where is it now?
2. Analyze the issue – identify the
issue and look at it from various lenses
3. Identify and get to know the
relevant community systems – what
are the systems that may facilitate or
hinder the success of an action?
4. Identify ad get to know the players-
who are involved in the issue?
5. Identify community power actors –
who are the influential people? What
is their interest on the issue?
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6. Trace connections – map out
linkages of the stakeholders
YOUTH IN COMMUNITY ACTION
THE IMPORTANCE AND ROLE OF
- Youth is defined as the critical period
in a person’s development from the
YOUTH IN COMMUNITY ACTION
onset of adolescence to the peak of
mature.(15-30 year old) the youth
from psychosocial perspective, define
youth as within the adolescence and
early adulthood phase
- This is also the stage when he/she
clings to a peer of group. In the early
adulthood stage, the youth has already
formed herself/himself to form close
relationships
- The youth are mostly concerned with
issues related issues related sexual risk
behaviour and drugs. Can cause
dysfunctional family and society.
Among the other issues of the youth
are education, quality of education,
increasing of O.S.Y. (out of school
youth) and lack of education
opportunities, low educational
attainment, and high incidence of
poverty.
- The state recognizes the vital role of
the youth in nation-building and shall
protect their physical, moral, spiritual,
intellectual, and social well-being.
- The youth are the vital resource of the
community
- They are considered as community
change assets
- Youth are essential assets of the
community because of creativity and
resourcefulness.
- Youth is necessary to provide them
with the essential support for
knowledge enhancement capacity
building
8 ROLE OF YOUTH IN OUR
SOCIETY
1. Give Priority to your Education
2. Don’t be lazy. Work hard, dream
big, and achieve those dream
3. Take care of your parents
4. Accept all genders in the society
5. Don’t Make Fun of Vulnerables (in
need of special care)
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6. Give importance to your ethics than

money. (Behaviour)
7. Respect everyone in the society
8. Don’t waste time

CORE VALUES, AND GUIDING

PRNCIPLES OF COMMUNITY
ACTION

1) Human rights are rights inherent to

all human beings, whatever our
nationality, place of residence, sex,
national or ethnic or any status.
We are equally entitled to our human
rights without discrimination

Ball human rights are indivisible

(unable to be separated or divided),
some human rights are the following,
right to life, equality, before the law,
and freedom of expression, rights of
work.