commu

PROCESSES, DYNAMICS

nity
AND EMPOWERMENT

Group 4
Aguirre
Larena
Mediano
Medija
 commu
PROCESSES, DYNAMICS

nity
AND EMPOWERMENT

Group 4
Aguirre
Larena
Mediano
Medija
 Master system encompassing social forms and
cultural behavior in interdependent subsidiary
systems.

Community Social system composed of people living in

some spatial relationship to one another, who
Noun, often attributive
share common facilities and services, develop
Com∙mu∙ni∙ty │ kə-ˈmyü-nə-tē
a unified body of individuals
a common psychological identification with
(Merriam Webster) the locality symbol.

Recognized as social unit, such as a group

or association based on common needs,
interest, values and function.
Community Processes
Community development as a process is a
systematic approach to change in which
each of the phases of the process may be
sufficiently defined and measured in
accordance with specified criteria.
Community
Dynamics Lev
01
els:
Integrative Forces

02 Disintegrative Forces

the process of change and 03 Participative Group and Groupism

development within communities
it is ‘constantly changing’.
04 Functions of Subgroups

strive to bring about positive

social change through 05 Minority Groups
community-based programming.
06 Gender and Empowerment
 Integrative Disintegrative Forces
Forces "disintegrative" processes are
the process of integrating intuition,
therefore seen as "positive," whereas
reason and imagination in a human
people who fail to go through
mind with a view to developing a
positive disintegration may remain
holistic continuum of strategy, tactics,
for their entire lives in a state of
action, review and evaluation for
"primary integration."
addressing a problem in any field.

A problem may be defined as the difference

between what one has and what one wants.
 Participative Group Groupism
“Participative group” is known by - the tendency to think and act as
many names including members of a group
Is the concept which makes everyone to feel:

 Empathy – the ability to understand and share the

 shared leadership,
feelings of other
 Community empowerment,
 Sympathy – understanding and care for someone else’s
 Community involvement, suffering
 participative decision-making  Awe feeling – express complete agreement or
sentiments
 Goal achievement
(Steinheider, B., Bayerl,
P.S. & Wuestewald)
 Subgroup Functi
A group formed of a subset
01 ons:
Work towards goal achievement

of members drawn from a

larger parent group. 02 Motivate the members

03 Organize meeting with the members

membership in a subgroup is
ultimately controlled by the
parent group and its owner. 04 Organize meeting with the external agents

Example: committee, teams, etc. 05 Alliance with government and others

 Gender and Empowerment
Minority
Group is conceived as a process by which
a sociological category within a women can overcome many of the
demographic hurdles that they face such as
education, work status, employment
those who don’t hold the majority of
opportunities, health care, social
positions of social power in a society.
security, position in decision making
by virtue of their gender.
 Five-Point
01 Continuum
Personal action
experience a high degree of
‘relative powerlessness’

Communit 02
The development of small interest groups
to assist individuals to gain skills and is a means of developing

Empowerment
y
stronger social support systems

Community organizations
This empowerment acts as a motivator in society and it holds a
great deal of importance in community development.
03 creates the needs in the first place, or offers the means

Partnerships
As a key principle of community development, empowerment
often is what prompts things to get done in the first place.
04 to grow beyond their own local concerns

Social and political action

05 redressing the deeper underlying

causes of their concern.
THANKS Group 4

FOR Hannah Jean Aguirre

Ellen Joy Larena

LISTENING
Jamar Mediano
Jay Chris Medija