Concepts

and
Perspective
of
Community
COMMUNITY
• Simply as a group of
individuals bound
within specific
geographic location.
COMMUNITY
• Surmises that a
community is an
example of a
collective that
identifies traits, goals
or customs.
 People within the community
act in the same way and
same importance. Like cells,
we need each other to
support life.

A community takes on
different periods of evolution
as it continues to survive
The Basics of a Community
Self-help – is about how
individuals seek personal
development without the help of
others. However, self-help
defines a community once each
individual wants and needs
intersect, therefore justifying a
need to unify.
Community Ownership – this can
be summed up by the level of
involvement the community and its
members hold in the most basic
operational structures of the
commune. Some of these
structures can be governmental or
nongovernmental.
Community Participation –
individuals can provide their own
contributions through act of
volunteerism in projects and other
communal initiatives.
Inclusion – is one aspects of the
community that is integral in
binding the collective into a whole.
Access and Equity – these two
are the goals that a commune
must strive for to create a better
society. Access and Equity imply
the ease in which various
individuals and groups can attain
the basic necessities and
resources.
 Activity: I Dream
QUESTIONS:
1.What do you think influenced you to form
this dream?
2.How do you think this dream will help
you? Your future family? Your
community?
3.Why do you think this dream is
important?
4.Is your dream still capable in your current
standing as a grade 12 student? If it has
changed, then share what made that
change and why?
 Social
Science
Perspective
Anthropological Perspective
• Communities are the driving
force for civilizations. Human
evolution itself came from the
mold of these evolutionary
shifts and has drastically
accelerated human
development.
Anthropological Perspective

• Paleolithic Age (old stone age)

– Hunter Gatherers
• Mesolithic Age (middle stone
age) – Horticultural and
Agricultural
• Neolithic Age - Agrarian
Sociological Perspective

• Sociology – is a branch of
social science that analyzes
the history, evolution,
structure and functions of
societies.
Sociological Perspective
• Sociology is employed in
observing the community in
a more sociological
perspective. From the
individual (micro level) to a
larger and broader subject
(macro level) includes
institutions.
Sociological Perspective
1. Social stratification
2. Social class
3. Social mobility
4. Religion
5. Sexuality
6. deviance
1. Social Stratification
• A cluster of identifiable traits
to distinguish individuals
and groups from one
another.
• To delineate subjects
2. Social Class
• Is the direct result of
classifying people in
accordance to material
wealth relative social value
or other traits.
3. Social Mobility
• Is the study of how
individuals or groups move
across classifications and
stratifications.
4. Religion
• It is how people or groups
are classified by using core
religious beliefs and
practices as an identifiable
social characteristic
• Recognized as one primary
influences to individual.
5. Sexuality
• One of the topics that
identify people and groups
through their sexual norms,
orientation, interest and
behavior.
6. Deviance
• Is rooted on the interaction
of society with a certain
social anomaly such as a
deviant act or norm-defying
stunt.
Political Perspective
• Study of politics can be
summed up as to “who gets
what, when and how.”
• Political science – intersect
other branches of
knowledge and inquiry.
• Nation – is composed of
individual that share a
common background
such as language,
history or religion.
• State – A political entity
that has the four
characteristic:
- population
- territory
- sovereignty
- government
• Population – the people
sharing a geographical
space (town, cities,
countries)
• Territory – physical area
under the rule or
jurisdiction under a
political system or rule
• Sovereignty – authority
of a state for self-
governance and rule
• Government – a group
of individuals that
administers the
functions of the state