INSTITUSTIONAL PERSPECTIVE

The institutional perspective views the concept of community in three

different dimensions.
First, it is an existing establishment or physical space where members of
the community go for a certain purpose. Examples of this are the
companies, hospitals, pr educational institutions.

Second, this is defined by networks and institutions where community

groups are formed in certain areas such as schools, churches, or
companies, and member in gather to meet their needs.
 People join clubs and associations to home their skills.
 Join religious organizations to deepen their faith.
 Participate in media activities to improve their communication
skills.
 Meet with friends and family at restaurants to satisfy their hunger.
 Some of the religious organizations based in the Philippine are the
catholic church, the Agama Islam Society, Couples for Christ, and
Simbahang Lingkod ng Bayan.

The third dimension is that community is composed of the ways people

act, interact with each other, react, and expect each other to act and
interact.
Examples: include institution such as marriage or friendship, role such
as mother or police officer, status or class, and other patterns of human
behavior. This dimension present how people act in relation to each
other. It includes their expectations, assumptions, judgements,
predictions, responses and reactions.
It perceives patterns of relationship sometimes identified as role and
status, and the formation of groups and institutions that derived from
those patterns. For example, a “father” is both a role and an institution.
This explains that in a community, its social organization is the sum of
all those and relationship and patterns.

Based on the given definition of institutional communities, cite three

similar communities that you are involved in, and sate their goals.