Week 1

Individuals having significant interaction within a specified area becomes one of the contributory factors in forming
a Community.

Geographical community- where members share the same geographical vicinity such as a village, province, or
neighborhood.

Non-geographical community- A community formed based on needs, ideas, interests, identity, practices, and roles
in social institutions.

Micro-level Community- Group formed based on personalities, includes groups formed for pursuing common
goals or interests. (Small group)

Macro-level community- large group affiliation is formed such as national communities, international
communities, and virtual communities. They will work on meeting certain objectives and expand on the aspect of
community involvement.

Week 2

IMPORTANCE OF UNDERSTANDING COMMUNITY DYNAMICS AND COMMUNITY ACTION

Community Dynamics- change and development involved in the community, include all forms of a living organism.

Community Dynamics Data- gives valuable insights into how people feel about the place they live in and can shape
decisions about services offered in particular neighborhoods.

Community Action- Community as the center of services development and services delivery. Aims to cater the
primary needs of the communities before implementing it.
- Broad range of activities (social action or community engagement)
-Any activities that increase understanding, engagement, and empowerment of communities in the design and
delivery of local services.

IMPORTANCE OF UNDERSTANDING COMMUNITY DYNAMICS AND ACTION

It is important to understand this two because this will propel the success of the communities. They go hand in
hand and are proportionally related.

COMMUNITY
•Is a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristics
•A feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests and goals
•A social group of any size whose members reside in a locality, share government, and often have a common
cultural and historical heritage
•A locality inhabited by such group.

COMMUNITY IN VARIOUS LEVEL

Social Sciences- A group of people living near one another who interact socially. Social interactions on a small scale
can be difficult to identify with archeological data.
Institutional- A structures or mechanism of social order, they govern the behavior of a set of individuals within a
given community.
Civil society- Group of people that maintained civil life, the realm where civic virtues and rights were derived from
natural laws.

Local grassroots level- A place where people focused on discussing race relations at the local. Bound for poverty.

Week 3

FUNCTIONS OF COMMUNITIES IN TERMS OF STRUCTURES, DYNAMICS AND PROCESSES

•Structure – the arrangement of and relations between the parts or elements of something complex.

•Dynamics – characterized by constant change, activity , or progress

•Processes – a series of actions or steps taken in order to achieve a particular end.

•Community structures – Communities are complex entities that can be before characterized by their structure
(the types of number of species present) Understanding community structure and dynamics enables
community ecologists to manage ecosystems more effectively.

•Community dynamics – are the changes in community structure and composition over time. Sometimes this
changes are induced by environmental disturbances.

•Community process – Community is a process. the importance of this as the fundamental principle of sociology it
is impossible to over-estimate.

Week 4

TYPOLOGIES OF COMMMNITIES

TYPOLOGY /TYPOLOGIES
• A classification according to general type, especially in archeology, psychology, or the social sciences.
• The study of the interpretation of types and symbols, originally especially in the Bible.
• A study of/or analysis or classification based on types or categories.

TYPOLOGIES OF COMMUNITY

• urban and Rural or suburban

• Formal or Informal
• Local and Global
• Physical space and Virtual space (socialspace)

URBAN → Pertains to highly industrialized communities.

RURAL → consist of agricultural lands, also referred as pre-industrial communities.
SUBURBAN→ Relating to characteristic of situated in a suburb.
FORMAL → Groups are formed by organizations to achieve specific objectives.
INFORMAL → Groups are formed by the members of such groups by themselves. They emerged naturally, in
response to the common interests of organizational members.
LOCAL → made up of people who live in the same country and have a common interest or passion.
GLOBAL → made up of people community from different countries with the goal to connect globally.
PHYSICAL SPACE→ covers both urban or rural space. Town squares or parks are public places.
VIRTUAL SPACE→ less familiar and has a confined application. Websites, social media platforms.
Week 5

DIRECT SERVICE
•Giving personal time and energy to address immediate community needs.Examples include tutoring, serving foof
at a shelter, building or preparing home, and neighborhood park clean ups

COMMUNITY RESEARCH
• Exploring a community to learn about its assets and how it is being affected by current social problems. This form
of community engagement provides knowledge that other efforts can build upon.

ADVOCACY AND EDUCATION

• Using various models of persuasion e.g. petitions, marches, letter-writing to convince government or cooperate
decision-makers to make choices that will make choices that will benefit the community.Raising public awareness
of social issues by giving speeches to community groups, distributing written materials to the general public, or
providing educational activities in schools.

CAPACITY BUILDING
•Working with the diverse constituencies of a community and building on existing assets to solve problems and
make it a better place.Creating a space for everyone in the community to have a say in what the community
should be like and how to get there.

POLITICAL INVOLVEMENT
• Participating in process of government such as campaigning and voting. This includes keeping informed about
issues in the local, national anf global communities in order to voted responsibly and engaging in discourse and
debate about current social issues.

SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL BEHAVIOR

• Maintaining a sense of responsibility to the welfare of others when making personal or professional decisions.
Using one's career or professional training to benefit the community. This category describes personal lifestyle
choices that reflect commitment to one's values: recycling, driving a hybrid car, or bicycling to work, buying or
not buying certain products because of unjust corporate policies or choosing to work for companies with socially
just priorities

PHILANTHROPIC GIVING
•Donating funding or needed items, organizing or participating in fund raising events.

PARTICIPATION IN ASSOCIATION
•Participating in community organizations that develop the social networks that provide a foundation for
community-building efforts during civic associations, sports leagues, church choirs, and school
boards.