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Cards (20)

  • Social change necessarily meant progress to something better so that any change without looking into good or bad is deemed necessarily positive and beneficial for society to involve.
    Theories of Social Change
  • Societies tend to move towards a state of internal balance or homeostasis. Until this internal state of internal balance is reached, society continues to undergo changes making constant adjustments trying to stabilize it from forces that act on it.
    Equilibrium Theory
  • Economic determinism or economic factors <determine the course of social change, which also accounts for social class conflict in a struggle towards control of economic resources that bring about the social changes.
    Conflict Theory
  • Societies fall or lag behind and rise or advance forward depending on how they creatively respond and strategically cope with the challenges presented by situations of special difficulty.
    Cyclical Theory
  • It is a community of persons more or less numerous living in a definite territory and processing an independent government of their own to which they render habitual obedience.
    The State
  • A sparse community with a homogenous culture that is localized outside the city area where social, cultural, and economic development
    Rural Community
  • A highly dense community with a heterogeneous culture that is localized in the city area where social, cultural, and economic development are relatively rapid dynamic.
    Urban Community
  • all online groups of internet users called "netizens", who share the resources of the internet and collaborate and interact through online network channels with a common culture called cyberculture.
    Virtual Community
  • communities of social categories to which its members identify with, or social organizations that they're affiliated with.
    Associational-based Community
  • refers to the strategic intervention and process of empowering and sustaining the community based on developing their resources. This is to improve existing conditions that will improve the lives of the people therein and realize the full potential of the community.
    Understanding the community
    • A community may come in one of many shapes, sizes, colors, and locations; no two (2) are alike
    • A community is not just the people who are not in it.
    • A "community", in some senses, may not even have a physical location, but be demarcated by being a group of people with a common interest.
    Social Science Perspective
  • Community - an important adaptation to late modernity, or from a practice perspective as a set of professional activities that are of special interest because they are developed across institutional boundaries, through partnerships.
    Institutional Perspective
    • Community a network of social groups that connect, collaborate, and interrelate in an organized way of sharing common resources and culture.
    • Sharing a culture members of the community having more or less similarities in their way or aspect of life.
    Civil Society Perspective
    • A group of interacting people sharing an environment.
    • In human communities, intent, belief, resources, preferences, needs, risks, and other conditions may be present and common, affecting the identity of the participants and their degree of cohesiveness.
    Local Community
    • movement is driven by a community's politics.
    • movements often at the local level, as many volunteers in the community give their time to support the local party, which can lead to helping the national party.
    Grassroots Community
  • A planned process with the specific purpose of working with identified groups of people to address issues affecting their well-being.
    Community Engagement
  • It refers to the ties in a society that bind people together as one. It is about valuing our A fellow human beings and respecting who they are as individuals.
    Solidarity
  • The status of a person recognized under the custom or law as being a member of a state or community. Citizenship is a narrower concept: it is a specific legal relationship between a state and a person. It gives that person certain rights and responsibilities. It does not have to accompany nationality.
    Citizenship
  • Purposes of Community Action
    • Regardless of the beliefs and attitude, we work as one for the development of one's self and for the community.
    • We are a family that has the same love for the country and the community.
    • Everyone has their own purpose in life.
  • Children and youth nowadays undertake community action because of the following:
    • Freebies that will acquire after the community action (e.g. certificates, food, and allowance)
    • Free will to improve with relationships and connections
    • Convinced by an adult/parents
    • Organizational/Course requirement
    • Consciousness of poverty, and the need of helping others
    • Volunteering because the common interests