 Explain the importance of

studying community
dynamics & community
action in relation to applied
social sciences & the
learners future career
options.
 Community Dynamics

•It is the process of change

and development in
communities.
 Community Action
• Is any activity that increases the
understanding, engagement and
empowerment of communities in
the design and delivery of local
services.
• Community action includes a broad range of
activities and is sometimes described as
‘social action' or ‘community engagement'.
These activities can vary in their objective,
the role the community plays, the types of
activities involved, their scale and their
integration within the council. What they
have in common is that they all involve
greater engagement of local citizens in the
planning, design and delivery of local
services.
 Why is community action important?

• Community action is about putting

communities at the heart of their
own local services. Involving
communities in the design and
delivery of services can help to
achieve a number of objectives
including:
Building community and social
capacity
Community resilience
Prevention
Maintaining and creating wealth
 Building community and
social capacity

•helping the community to

share knowledge, skills
and ideas.
 Community Resilience

• Helping the community to

support itself.
 Prevention
• A focus on early access to
services or support,
engagement in design, cross
sector collaboration and
partnerships.
 Maintaining & Creating
Wealth
•Helping people into
employment or
developing community
enterprises.
Role of the Community
The role the community plays can include community consultation,
joint planning, joint design, joint delivery and community-led
activities.
The types of activity can include:
-Asset transfer (either through formal transfer to bodies such as
parish councils or community interest companies, or transfer of
their management to local community and voluntary groups).
-Making better use of physical resources, such as council-owned
buildings, to support community-led activities.
-Community engagement in decision-making (for example through
public engagement events where the community helps to decide
local priorities, co-design or co-commission services).
-Community networks
-Community grants
Determine the changes that happened in your
community by comparing 2015 & 2019 using
the table below:

TABLE OF COMPARISON
2015 2019
Future Career Options
• What are the best careers for
the future?
• How will everything change?
• Is it possible to prepare for
the jobs of tomorrow-today?
Group Activity: SOCIAL MAPPING

Prepare a Social Map featuring

the different networks of
people and resources that
exist in your communities.
THANK YOU!