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• Four Elements of the Sense of Community:

  • Membership: feeling of belonging or sharing a sense of personal relatedness
  • Membership: feeling of belonging or sharing a sense of personal relatednessBoundaries: allowing others to belong and keep others out
  • Emotional safety: feelings of security and trust in revealing true feelings
  • Personal investments: sacrifices made to maintain membership
  • Common simple system: things like emblems, rituals, rites of passage, dress code, etc., used to represent and maintain a sense of community
• Importance of Understanding Community Dynamics:

  • A community is a socially operative whole, bound by a common social structure
  • Community dynamics involve changes, development, growth, and problems within a community
  • People living in a community stimulate growth, improvement, or modification within the system or process
  • Dynamic communities show progress and growth, with voluntary acts and community participation helping individuals within the community
• Government Institutions:

  • The government provides citizens with freedom and rights in the community
  • It helps achieve peace, balance, development, and progress within the community
  • Citizens have the freedom and obligation to give check and balance on the government and respond to any mismanagement
• Community Power:

  • Power in a community is the ability to affect decision-making processes and the use of resources, both public and private
  • Sources of community power include connections, power in number, rewards, personal traits/expertise, legitimate power, information, and coercion
• Institutional Perspective:

  • Social life may be institutionalized, with forms of social conduct that occur, recur, or are socially reproduced
  • Types of institutions include family, religious, educational, government, and economic institutions
• Family Institutions:

  • The family is the basic unit of society, a major social institution, and a center of social activity
  • It can be nuclear (parents and children) or extended (with other relatives)
• Political Perspective:

  • Political Science deals with governance systems, political activities, thoughts, and behavior
  • Politics determines the distribution of power and resources
• Sociological Perspective:

  • Human behavior is shaped by the groups people belong to and social interactions within those groups
  • Society is a temporary social product created by humans and capable of being changed by them
• Anthropological Perspective:

  • Anthropology focuses on understanding human diversity and the human experience from origins to contemporary culture and social life
• Community:

  • Community can be geographic or social identity, a group of individuals living together with common interests in a specific area
  • People in a community are bound together by common traits, goals, aspirations, or duties
• Integration and fulfillment of needs:

  • Refers to the feeling of fulfillment from personal investments in maintaining community membership or participating in community activities
• Influence-Refers to the sense of importance or feeling valued within a community, balancing members' influence and the community's power to make its members conform

  • Influence:Refers to the sense of importance or feeling valued within a community, balancing members' influence and the community's power to make its members conformthe sense of importance or feeling valued within a community, balancing members' influence and the community's power to make its members conform
• Community dynamics is a natural phenomenon where communities change and develop, stimulated by the people living in them, leading to growth, improvement, or modification within a system or process
• Communities that are dynamic show progress and growth, but they also face problems that affect the people within them
• Government institutions provide citizens with freedom and rights in the community, contributing to achieving peace and balance, and helping the community to develop and progress
• Legal authoritative decision-makers are individuals or bodies appointed based on formal rules and institutions, such as appointments made by the president of a country through powers of appointment as stated in the constitution
• Informal Power Structure includes individuals appointed for their ability to lead, direct, or achieve without an official leadership title, known as influencers who can lead others with the most influence
• Leaders are important figures guiding members to carry out plans in pursuit of the group's objectives, ensuring coherence of plans and better implementation of programs
• Civil society, considered as the third sector aside from government and private sectors, comprises voluntary civic and social organizations and institutions that work outside governmental institutions, operating for the welfare of others
• People's Organizations or Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) are independent units legally established for the benefit of marginalized citizens, such as the Philippine Red Cross, Bantay Bata 163, Inc., HARIBON Foundation, and Habitat for Humanity Philippines
• Religious institutions play a significant role in advancing civilizations, building morality, and have been the reason for the downfall of many
• Economic institutions cater to the survival needs of a community, developing ways to cope with everyday situations of life, distributing goods, services, and money within the community
• The economic structure describes the system of production, distribution, and consumption in a community, greatly influencing the availability of products, goods, and services
• Community power is the ability to affect the decision-making process and the use of resources, both public and private, within a community
• The eight sources of community power are: Connections, Power in Number, Rewards, Personal Traits/Expertise, Legitimate Power, Information, and Coercion
• The social structure pertains to the interrelations of behaviors, roles, and statuses that constitute a stable network of social interactions and relations within a community
• The social structure refers to the shared relationships within a community, where the choices and actions of people can contribute to its development or destruction
• The environment plays a crucial role in our lives, impacting communities significantly
• Civil society organizations, such as people's organizations, civic organizations, and social movements, function on a common spirit for the welfare of others
• Family institutions are the basic unit of society, created by blood, marriage, or adoption, and can be nuclear (parents and children) or extended (with other relatives)
• Political Science deals with the system of governance, analyzing political activities, thoughts, and behavior, determining the distribution of power and resources
• Sociology focuses on how human behavior is shaped by the groups to which people belong and the social interactions that take place within those groups
• Anthropology is the study of people, focusing on human diversity and the entire view of the human experience from origins to contemporary forms of culture and social life
• Community can be geographic or social identity, a group of individuals living together in a specific place with common interests, or a group bound together by common traits, goals, aspirations, or duties
• Community, derived from the Latin word "communitas," is defined by common cultural heritage, language, beliefs, and shared interests among people, forming an informally organized social entity characterized by a sense of identity
• Community members are brought together by commonly held interests, aspirations, perspectives, and values, forming connections and relations through shared histories, experiences, geographies, and identities
• Integration and fulfillment of needs in a community refer to the feeling of fulfillment from personal investments in maintaining community membership or participating in community activities and affairs
• Influence in a community refers to the sense of importance or feeling valued, where there is a balance between members feeling they have a say and the community having the power to make its members conform
• Community is a socially operative whole, a body of people bound to a common social structure, living in the same norms and within the same social organization, fostering a sense of belongingness
• Community dynamics is a natural phenomenon where changes and developments occur, stimulated by the people living in the community, leading to growth, improvement, or modification within systems or processes