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• Community

  Stakeholders ( people or groups with common geography or interest
• Engagement


  Including stakeholders in process and supporting meaningful contribution
• Community Engagement


   involvement and participation in an organization for the welfare of the community.
• Community Engagement


  includes building relationships, developing communications, and managing interactions in order to achieve specific outcomes for the organization and the community itself
• Solidarity

  makes communities strong because it brings residents closer together, reduces conflict, and encourages them to share their time and help each other when needed, so that everyone benefits from being part of the same community, whether it’s large or small
• Unity or agreement of feeling or action, especially among individuals with a common interest; mutual support within a group.
• Citizenship

  ·         The status of being a citizen

  ·         Membership in a community.
• Citizen 


  a native or naturalized person who owes allegiance to a government and is entitled to protection from it
• Community

  ·         defined by two (2) characteristics: location and social identification

  ·         group of individuals bound within specific geographic location or area.

  living social entity and goes beyond the old categorized of space as its primary definition
• Self-help

  ·         how individuals seeks personal development without the help of others.

  ·         self-help defines a community once each individual wants and needs intersect, therefore justifying to unify.
• Community Ownership

  ·         the level of commitment and accountability that an individual has for the community

  ·         the level of involvement the community and its members hold in the most basic operational structures of the commune
• Community Participation

  ·         individuals provide their own contributions through volunteerism in projects and communal initiatives.

   

  ·         not only focused on being part of an ongoing project

   

  ·         an individual should also be an active member by taking part in the managerial and organizational development of the community, i.e., conceptualization, planning , operationalization, and review of initiatives.
• Inclusion

  ·         the opportunity to live and exist as a contributing member of the community while being valued for one's abilities and uniqueness — regardless of disability.

  ·         aspect of the community that is integral in binding the collective into a whole

  ·         echoes the need for the community to be compromising and tolerant of members‘ differences

  ·         conciliation that reaches beyond norms of collective understanding wherein the goal is to reach social equity among its members
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  Access and Equity

  ·         These two are the goals that the commune must strive for to create a better society

  ·         implies the ease in which various individuals and groups can attain the necessities and resources

  ·         They push for a just allocation of goods and opportunities that is without discrimination and prejudice
• Community Movement

  ·         bound not just by one issue or narrative but on a plethora (large/excessive amount) of compromises that are commonly accepted and continually reinforced.

  ·         made up of various advocacy clusters that try to supplement the ongoing efforts of the government
• Social movement

  ·         more issue-specific and may exist primarily for its ecosystem. It manifests a reaction to an event or as pre- existing popular rhetoric among the community members
• Advocacies

  ·         formed by the community and its leaders through issues and concerns that are shared among its members 

   

  ·         include multitudes of topics where people are compelled to push for value-specific agendas that are shared through their supporters.

   
• Networking

  ·         collaboration where groups and individuals from various walks of life come together to form linkages that are important for mobilization and value creation.

   

  ·         formations are created with the organic networking of actors that later on find commonalities and avenues for cooperation and partnerships
• Community Dynamics

  forces or properties which stimulate growth, development, or change within a system or process.
• Community Dynamics

  ·         self motivated

  ·         active

  ·         energetic
• Social Science

  Social science is the study of how people interact with one another. The branches of social science include anthropology, economics, political science, psychology, and sociology.
• Social scientists study how societies work, exploring everything from the triggers of economic growth and the causes of unemployment to what makes people happy. Their findings inform public policies, education programs, urban design, marketing strategies, and many other endeavors.
• Anthropology

  ·         culture &media

  ·         archaeology

  ·         environment & conservation

  ·         medical Anthropology

  ·         politics, Law & Economy
• examines various aspects of humans, such as their biology

  ·         behavior

  ·         culture

  ·         social interactions
• Social Perspective

  A community is a group of people in a particular area interacting together.
• Anthropological Perspective

  A community is a group of people adapting their ways of living to different environments, understanding their situation through interacting with the people, & connecting its history, such that their needs are satisfied
• Anthropology

  ·         is a study that deals with the origin of man and society. Its theories range from traditional, modern to post-modern.

  ·         It covers several million years, from the first proto-human ancestors to the present

  ·         As a study it covers the widest range of societies, from small hunter gatherer bands to modern societies
•      Paleolithic Age

  came from Greek words palaios (old), and lithos, (stone)

  · from the beginning of human existence until around 12,000 years ago

  · humans used stone to make tools and stone was used many times as part ofthe actual tool
• Mesolithic Age (Middle Stone Age)

  ·         existed between the Paleolithic (Old Stone Age), with its chipped stone tools, and the Neolithic (New Stone Age), with its polished stone tools.

   

  ·         broadly analogous to the Archaic culture ofthe Western Hemisphere

   

  ·          microliths, very small stone tools intended for mounting together on a shaft to produce a serrated edge.

   

  ·         Polished stone was another innovation that occurred in some Mesolithic assemblages
• Neolithic Age (New Stone Age)

  Agrarian

  ·         began about 12,000 years ago when the first developments of farming appeared in the Epipalaeolithic Near East, and later in other parts of the world

   

  ·         lasted until the transitional period of the Chalcolithic from about 6,500 years ago (4500 BC), marked by the development of metallurgy, leading up to the Bronze Age and Iron Age

   

  ·         comprises a progression of behavioral and cultural characteristics and changes, including the use of wild and of domestic crops and domesticated animal
• Charles Darwin


  british naturalist

  on the origin of own species

  1809
• Biological Theory of Evolution

  ·         Unlike the account in the Genesis wherein man actually is taken from the image and likeness of God, Darwin believed that man is genetically related to the apes and monkeys

  ·         His theory posits (assume as a fact)the idea that the world is a harsh environment wherein the weak loses and the strongest and the fittest survives
• Genesis 1:27


  So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them
• ·         Gregor Mendel, a monk, supported the theory of evolution by Charles Darwin with his own theory on heredity from his own observation and propagation of plants and flowers.

  ·         He discovered that traits are passed by the parent plants to their offspring —and such traits manifest depending whether the gene traits are dominant or recessive
• The Theory of Social Evolution

  ·         process of directional social change - evolution is not limited to species

  ·         advances the idea that evolution also happens in societies

  ·         Like all species, change occurs in societies from one period of time to another which transforms the original culture
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  Charles Louis Secondat, Baronde la Brède et de Montesquieu

  Societies normally undergo three (3) stages of prevailing culture:

  ·         hunting or savagery

  ·         barbarism

  ·         civilization.
• Edward Tylor

  ·         Supported the idea of Montesquieu

  ·         Some traces of ancient cultural existence manifest even until the present time

  ·         societies evolved from the simple to the complex

  ·         Cultural diffusion is where one culture borrows from one another as a result of their contact
• Lewis Morgan

  ·         The root cause of the progressive evolution is technology
• Diffusionism

  Process by which cultural traits are transferred to another culture through interaction (trade, war, migration, etc.) Advances the idea that there were limited/few cultural centers-- it could just even be one culture from which cultural traits diffused
• Acculturation

  brought about by a dominant culture, which results to an increased similarity between two culture