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My COMMUNITY!!!
Lesson Three:
•Individual Dimensions of a
Community
Lesson Four:
•Structural Dimensions of a
Community
GUESS
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ECONOMIC DIMENSION
SOCIO-POLITICAL DIMENSION
GEOGRAPHIC DIMENSION
INTERRELATIONSHIP
ORGANIZATION
CULTURAL DIMENSION
LESSON THREE:

Individual Dimensions
of a Community
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•INDIVIDUAL

•DIMENSION

•COMMUNITY
• INDIVIDUAL
A distinct, indivisible entity;
a single thing, being,
instance, or item.
• DIMENSION
Measurement in length, width,
and thickness.
Scope;
• COMMUNITY
A social group of any size whose members reside
in a specific locality, share government, and often
have a common cultural and historical heritage .
LESSON THREE:

Individual Dimensions
of a Community
 •Individual and the
Community
•Interrelationships

•Organizations
INDIVIDUAL DIMENSIONS OF A COMMUNITY
 •Individual
and the Community
As individuals, we create situations
and opportunities that allow us to
interact with one another and form
social relationships and groups
within a community. Our relations
and human connections are shaped
by the places and meaningful spaces
where we exist.
 •Individual
and the Community
The knowledge, interests,
identities, and meanings we share
with one another also affect our
interactions. Interrelationships and
organizations are mediating
elements that connect an
individual with the community.
•Interrelationships
Individuals associate with other
individuals through their commonalities
in attributes, sentiments, histories, and
experiences. These associations are
referred to as interrelationships.
Interrelationships can be facilitated
through familial relations, affinities or
feelings of kinship, and social networks.
•Interrelationships
-Interrelationships in communities are said to have
typically evolved through networks of blood relations
and affinities.
-Community relations are essentially defined by the
relations between and among families. Families and
clans play an active role in the cultural, economic, and
political aspects.
-There are also circumstances when interrelationships
and social connections are formed and deepened
because people find themselves confronted with
various issues and problems.
 •Organizations
Interconnected individuals strengthen
their bonds and form organizations. Each
individual takes on a set of roles or tasks in
organizations in pursuit of goals and
interests. Organizational structures vary in
form. Organizations serve as initiators of
community action. They are also
considered instrumental in
operationalizing the goals, objectives, and
interests of the community.
 •Organizations
Since organizations are purposefully created and
structured to perform several functions and
tasks, their actions shape the conditions and
lives of community members. Organizations
help and assist community members in various
ways such as in resource pooling and
management, representation, and other
activities that are meant to uplift the conditions
of communities by giving them a “voice” in
decision-making processes, or through social
development and welfare projects.
 •Individual and the
Community
•Interrelationships

•Organizations
INDIVIDUAL DIMENSIONS OF A COMMUNITY
LESSON FOUR:
Structural
Dimensions of a
Community
 • Understanding communities require that we examine
its structure and dynamics. By structure, we refer to the
attributes and characteristics of the relations of the
component parts of a community. An examination of
the dynamics of a community requires a look into the
exchanges, interactions, and changes of a community
across time. Learning about its different dimensions and
how these interact, allows us to depart from a static
view of communities toward one that will help us
explain how communities change and develop.
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 •Structural
Dimensions
GEOGRAPHY of a Community

SOCIO-
POLITICAL
ECONOMIC

CULTURAL
 •Geographic
Dimension
The geographic dimension in a
community focuses on how a
community is shaped by the physical
space it uses and the location of its
resources-human, natural, and
technological. Each community has a
specific and unique geographic
system where interaction between
and among its inhabitants occur.
 •Geographic
Dimension
Institutions regulate these spaces as
legal juris dictions. Goods and
information also circulate within
geographic systems. It also has a
political-administrative character, since
geographic systems are characterized
by zones and boundaries that are
either natural or defined by the rules of
the community.
 •Geographic
Dimension
An examination of a
community's geographic system
would typically start by looking
at the scope and limits of its
territory, distribution of its
population, and the location of
its resources.
•Socio-Political
Dimension
Socio-political dimension refers to the
relationships of power and control between
individuals and groups in a community.
Political leadership, whether formal or
informal, and how it is accepted and sustained
by community members are important factors
that help analyze the quality and processes of
decision-making in the community.
•Socio-Political
Dimension
Accountability, legitimacy, and
participation are critical issues related
to political leadership. Knowing the
socio-political system of communities
also helps in characterizing the
relationship between stratified groups
and the extent of their dominance or
marginalization.
 •Economic
Dimension
Economic dimension refers to the
means by which members of a
community allocate, produce, and
distribute scarce resources to address
their wants and needs. It is the aspect
of community that is concerned with
how exchange value is created and
what systems of exchange occur within
a community.
 •Cultural
Dimension
In its broadest sense, culture refers to the
people’s way of life. It encompasses the
values and beliefs that are passed on from
one generation to another. It embodies the
collective sense of a people and what
matters to them as a community, such as
their relationships, memories, experiences,
backgrounds, hopes, and dreams, amidst
their individual diversities.
 •Cultural
Dimension
More importantly,. the culture of a
community expresses their visions of
the future and what they intend to pass
to the next generation. A study into the
cultural dimension of communities
provides an understanding of how
culture affects members of a
community and how this relates to
community dynamics and processes.
 Individual in the Community

Interrelationships

Organizations

COMMUNITY Geographic
Socio-Political
Economic
Cultural
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