Community

Engagemen
Describe your idea of community using the acronym of the
word “COMMUNITY”.
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Community
- from the Latin word, “communis”
which means common or shared

-may be de defined bt two characteristics:

location and social identification
Communities may be formed in
two ways:

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

2. Non-geographical
- formed based on needs, ideas, interests, identity, practices, and roles
in social institutions such as at home, all work, in government, society
Levels:

1. Micro Level
- based on personal ties
e.g. small organization

2. Macro Level
- large group affiliations
e.g. national communities, international communities, and virtual
communities
Recall different activities in your locale for each of the boxes
below.
Economy
• Are you aware of the
different activities in your
community? Politics Social

• Have these activities

COMMUNITY
changed overtime?
• As social science student,
do you think it is necessary
to study community? Why Religious Education
do you think so?
In-demand careers in the Community
2015 2022
 In-demand careers in the Community
2015 2022
• IT /Computer - Software • Virtual Assistant
• IT /Computer - (Freelance/BPO)
Network/Database Admin • Back Office Associate
• Law/Legal Services • Call Center Agent
• Actuarial Science/Statistics • Social Media
• Engineering Marketing/Content Creatprs
electronics/Communication • Recruitment
Associate/Specialist

1.What are the factors that brought these changes?

2.What careers do you think will arise in the future?
 Community
Dynamics
-changes brought about by social, cultural,
and environmental experiences

-strives to bring about positive social change

Can the dynamics in the community affect the
lives of the people? If yes, why? How? If not, why
not?
 Community
Action
-a collective action or activity UNDERSTANDING
- raise an awareness about certain
that aims to give services to communal issues that needs to be addressed
people
ENGAGEMENT
-aims to increase the - people work collaboratively to act on the
understanding, engagement, issue assessed
and empowerment of
communities EMPOWERMENT
- enable the people to independently decide,
-putting communities at the plan-out
heart of their own local services
 Why is Community Action
important?
1. Building community
and social capacity
-helping the community to share
knowledge, skills, and ideas
2. Community resilience
-helping the community to
support itself
3. Prevention
-a focus on early access to services or
support, engagement in design, cross-
sector collaboration and partnerships
4. Maintaining and creating
wealth
-helping people into employment or
developing community enterptises
FT #1
1. a collective action or activity that aims to give services to people
2. a community formed based on needs, ideas, interests, identity, practices,
and roles in social institutions
3. enables the people to independently decide, plan-out and take action to
control thesituation they have in the community
4. the changes in the community brought about by social, cultural, and
environmental experiences
5. At this level, a large group affiliation is formed.
Work with your
partner
What was the importance
of the community action
done to the individuals
concerned?
Assignment:
Observe your barangay or zone. Make a conclusion based on
your observation about the community dynamics in your
community.

Name of Barangay:
My conclusion: (5-10 sentences)