COMMUNITY: DEFINITION

AND CHARACTERISTICS
 MELC
•Explain the importance of studying
community dynamics and community
action in relation to applied social
sciences and the learner’s future career
options.
 LESSON
OBJECTIVE:
•The learners will be able to define what is
a community, identify the characteristics
of community and analyze personal
membership in various communities.
 ACTIVITY 1: PAST AND
PRESENT
•Directions: Determine the changes that
happened in your community by
comparing 2019 and 2023 using the table.
Answer the questions that follows.
 ACTIVITY 1: PAST AND
PRESENT
TABLE OF COMPARISON

2019 2023
 ACTIVITY 1: PAST AND
PRESENT
• 1. What are the factors that brought these changes?
• 2. Describe the diversity of the components of the
community you’re living in.
• 3. What are the career opportunities in store for
you in your community?
 INSTRUCTIONS: MATCH COLUMN A TO
COLUMN B. WRITE THE LETTER OF
YOUR ANSWER ON THE SPACE.
COLUMN A COLUMN B
1. It pertains to highly industrialize communities.
2. It consists of agricultural lands and referred as A.Slums
the pre-industrial communities.
3. It is a densely populated area usually crowded
B.Urban
and has dirty run-down housing
4. An area of land that has been divided on
C.Social Status
smaller areas on which houses were built. D.Rural
5. It refers to the social standing of an individual.
E. Subdivision
F. Community
 QUESTIONS TO PONDER
• 1. Why do you think it is important to know the
kind of community you belong?
• 2. What is your personal career choice and what
makes you choose this career?
• 3. How does a change in your community affect
your career choice?
 WHAT IS COMMUNITY?
• It is where the people work, play, and live.
• It is a group of people who occupy a common
contiguous territory, possessed of a common sets of
traditions associated with their living together in that
territory, and served by a set of local institutions in
which the people are conscious of their common
interest.
 TYPES OF COMMUNITY?
• 1. Urban Communities
• -Urban communities include cities.
• -There are lots of people close together in a
small amount of space.
• -There is not very much open space of natural
areas.
 TYPES OF COMMUNITY?
• 2. Rural Communities
• -Rural communities are called “the country”.
• -Areas are more open spaces and lots compared to urban
areas.
• -Number of people is much fewer than urban areas.
 TYPES OF COMMUNITY?
• 3. Suburban Communities
• -Suburban communities are usually close to, but not in cities.
There are fewer people than on urban communities, but many
more than in rural communities.
• -Houses are often in neighborhoods and many people have
yards.
• -There are many natural areas.
VENN DIAGRAM OF URBAN,
RURAL AND SUBURBAN
COMMUNITY
 TYPES OF COMMUNITY?
• SLUM
• -A slum is usually a highly populated urban
residential area consisting mostly of closely
packed, decrepit housing units in a situation of
deteriorated or incomplete infrastructure, inhabited
primarily by impoverished persons.
 QUESTIONS TO PONDER
•1. What composes the community?
•2. How do they work?
•3. Do they help one another for the
purpose of co-existence?
 COMMUNITY IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF
THE FOLLOWING SOCIAL SCIENCE
DISCIPLINE
• SOCIOLOGY- community as a group who follow
a social structure within a society(culture, norms,
values, status). They may work together to
organize social life within a particular place, or
they may be bound by a sense of belonging
sustained across time and space.
 COMMUNITY IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF
THE FOLLOWING SOCIAL SCIENCE
DISCIPLINE
• PSYCHOLOGY- Community Psychology is a field with
a unique new perspective for understanding the
individuals within their environment which includes the
larger social systems that affect their lives. It does not
focus on—problems/but rather on the strengths and
competencies of community members.
 COMMUNITY IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF
THE FOLLOWING SOCIAL SCIENCE
DISCIPLINE
• ANTHROPOLOGY- Community’ is to be
characterized in terms of: (1) common interests
between people; or (2) a common ecology and
locality; or (3) a common social system or
structure. Hence, communities come to be marked
by a fair degree of social coherence.
 COMMUNITY IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF
THE FOLLOWING SOCIAL SCIENCE
DISCIPLINE
• GEOLOGY- A community of place or place-
based community is a community of people
who are bound together because of where
they reside, work, visit or otherwise spend a
continuous portion of their time.
 COMMUNITY IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF
THE FOLLOWING SOCIAL SCIENCE
DISCIPLINE
• ECONOMICS- Economics for community holds that
the non-market goods and services have intrinsic, non-
monetary values that cannot be replaced by financial
assets. It holds that rules are needed to respect this basic
requirement for various non-market goods and services
to ensure economic activities serve these broader values.
 COMMUNITY IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF
THE FOLLOWING SOCIAL SCIENCE
DISCIPLINE
•ARCHAEOLOGY- Also known as public
archaeology, community archaeology
involves communities “in the planning
and carrying out of research projects that
are of direct interest to them”.
 ADD A WORD OR A PHRASE FROM UP DOWN
AND DEVELOP THE CHARACTERISTICS OF
YOUR OWN COMMUNITY

•Community-
 REFLECT ON
•1. What do you like about your
THIS!
community?
•2. What do you think should be changed
in your community?
•3. How can you help your community?
 REFLECT ON
THIS!
•4. What are the things do you like best in
your community?
•5. What do the people in your community
do for recreation?
•6. What do you think is the most
important thing about community?
 REFLECT ON
THIS!
• 7. How did you come up in your answer in
the pyramid?
• 8. Will it help you in choosing your career
path? How?
• 9. What factor/s in your community do you
think will hinder your future plans?
 REFLECT ON
THIS!
•10. What solution do you think
will eliminate those factors?
 QUESTIONS TO PONDER
•Define community.
•What are the types of community?
•How do other disciplines define
community?