Community Dynamics

What is Community Dynamics?

Changes that happen in the community power structures and
community population composition over time.

1. Power Structures – key people that act together to do

something in their community.
2. Community population composition – refers to the
demographic makeup of a person in a given place.
 Power Structures

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 Factors Resulting to Community Dynamics
Changes is ever constant, so we can expect our power structures and
population composition to change.
Why do community power change?
1. Authority
2. Influence
Why do community population change?
1.Fertility
2.Mortality
3.Migration
 Factors Affecting Changes in
Community Power Structures

1. Authority
2. Influence
 Authority
 A power that one has over another by virtue of elected
position or an office appointment that is based on laws and
regulations.
 often called as formal power structure.
Authority can change via election, revolution, retirement,
resignation, death, removal from office.
 Influence
 A power that a person possess due
to the perception of other people of
his/her ability.
 Informal Power structure
The positive perception of people
may come from a combination of two
or more bases of influences such as;
Observe skills in leading
Has money
High level of education
Commendable achievments
Good public relations skills
Wide and external linkages
Dependability in dealing with other
people
Mature age 40-60
A professional or a businessman
Good family background
Long term recidence
Active involvement in community affairs
Control and acess to needed materials
recources, jobs
Power actors in the community are not
necessarily those who hold position of
authority by virtue of election, instead
Power Actors can be anyone as long as
they have the bases of influence.
 Shively 4 routes of Informal Power
 Status
 Wealth
 Expertise
 Charisma
Status
Attainment of influence
by virtue of family
prominence, past
achievements, or
personal prestige.
Wealth
Attainment of
Influence by virtue of
using one’s money and
material resources.
Expertise
Attainment of Influence by
virtue of hard-earned
specific knowledge and
abilities such as beimg a
lawyer, banker,
entrepreneur, accountant,
doctor etc.
Charisma
Attainment of Influence
by virtue of having
unique qualities of
personal magnetism that
people naturally follow,
often with blind devotion.
 Factors Affecting Changes In the
Composition of People in the
Community
1. Fertility
2. Mortality
3. Migration
 Fertility
Actual reproductive performance that can be
expected of a person, couple, group, population
during a woman's childbearing years. Fertility
rates are subject to many determinants such as;
1. Social Precondition of marriage
2. Birth control methods
3. High level of education
4. Increased economic development
Social Preconditions of Marriage
 Refers to norms that need to be followed before a man
and woman are allowed to unite as a couple and produce a
son/daughter.
1. Parental approval
2. Dowry
3. Financially capable
4. Legal preconditions
Birth Control Methods
 Refer to either to the use of artificial contraception or
natural method to delay, or terminate pregnancy.
 the acceptance of the community to birth control can
lessen significantly the fertility rate.
Higher Level of Education
 A educated women is aware on
how they control their body and
make choices that can benefit
them
Increased Economic Development
 a more develop country
has a higher chance that
the people living in it can
lower its fertility rate.
 Mortality
 Relates to death, often
summarized by death rates,
survival rates, and life
expectancy.
Lower death rate = Higher life expectancy
 An indicator that tells us that a community is healthy due
to increased access to basic needs.
 Healthy people is equivalent to better work performance,
and a good economy.
 if a economy is good, there is no more need to depend on
high number of children.
 Migration
Refers to the process of moving
from one place to another. A
movement across a specific
boundary for a considerable
time and for a reason in order
to establish a temporary or
permanent abode.
Internal and External Migration
 Internal – same geographical area or region
External – a national boundary to another.
What are the 3 factors Affecting Changes In the Composition
of People in the Community?
 Types of Community Power Structures
Community power actors vary depends on a community,
because nothing is constant.
1. Pluralist
2. Elitist
3. Factional
4. Amorphous
Pluralist
Power becomes an attribute of an individual and widely
distributed, making its member equal in influence.
There are multiple power that are related to a specific
issues.
Elitist
Power generally comes from the wealthy people that have
control over financial, industrial, and commercial resources
of a certain community.
1. Class based theory
2. The Growth Machine
Factional
Power resides in numerous groups with equal power.
Heated debate and group in-fighting is very common.
Amorphous
 No identifiable power exist.
 often called as the “sleeping giant”
All of the stated community power
structure mentioned are ideal types.
Meaning that they don’t exist, however
a combination of two or more could
emerge.
 Identifying Community Power Actors
1. Positional Method
2. Reputational Method
3. Decision Making Method
4. Social Participation Method
Positional Method
 This procedure mainly focus on selecting power
actors based on the important position they occupied
in formal organization.
 Weakness of this method is it fails to identify
power actors that operate behind the scene and
power actors sometimes does not exercise the power
vested upon them to affect communities.
Reputational Method
 The process involves the selection of many knowledgeable citizens
who can provide a list of power actors, after that the power actors
will then be ranked according to their reputation in the community.
 Weakness – a tendency is people concludes reputation with social
status.
Decision Making Method
 This involves tracing the history of a collective decision
concerning at least one issue.
Social Participation
 A set of criteria can be developed to determine the
degree of organizing committee.