Community Engagement Solidarity & Citizenship 1-3

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  • Community dynamics
    Changes and development taking place within a community
  • Community action
    Any activity that aims to increase the understanding, engagement, and empowerment of communities for the intention of giving services to people
  • Community
    • Individuals having significant interaction within a specified area
    • Shares a certain sense of place whether geographical or virtual
  • Types of community
    • Geographical community
    • Non-geographical community
  • Geographical community
    Community where members share the same geographical vicinity such as a village, province, or neighborhood
  • Non-geographical community
    Formed based on needs, ideas, interests, identity, practices, and roles in social institutions such as home, at work, in government, society, or the community in general
  • Communication and relationships are imperative in building a community
  • Levels of community
    • Micro-level community
    • Macro-level community
  • Micro-level community
    A group that is formed based on personal ties, such as groups formed for pursuing common interests or goals
  • Macro-level community
    A large group affiliation such as national communities, international communities, and virtual communities
  • Understanding community life makes us value the things we have on a daily basis, social encounter constructs reality and affects some changes within – thus Community Dynamics
  • The changes in the community are brought about by social, cultural and environmental experiences whether it is positive or negative development that impacts within the community
  • Understanding (in community action)

    Raise awareness about certain communal issues that need to be addressed
  • Engagement (in community action)

    Work collaboratively to act on communal issues, improve partnership and coalitions among the community
  • Empowerment (in community action)

    Enables the people to independently decide, plan-out and take action to control the situation they have in the community
  • The study of community action is imperative in the field of social sciences and other related disciplines as it lays on the foundation that individuals and families – as basic units - are embedded in different social structures that shape the behaviors in the system
  • Having knowledge in community action makes an individual understand better by being aware in the environment, having meaningful engagement, and accepting empowerment to create significant impact
  • Individuals and families shape the behavior in the social system
  • Community action is necessary in the development of communities
  • Community
    A group of people in a particular area interacting together
  • Disciplines in social sciences related to the idea of community
    • Anthropology
    • Economics
    • Political Science
    • Psychology
    • Sociology
  • Anthropology
    • Examines various aspects of humans, such as their biology, behavior, culture, and social interactions
    • May study how people adapt their ways of living to different environments
  • Economics
    • Studies the production, allocation and consumption of goods and services
    • Aims to improve the lives of people, such that their needs are satisfied
  • Political Science
    • Encompasses the various ways and means of allocating power, influence, decision-making
    • Includes types of governments and management systems, and how people in small bands or informal groups make decisions
  • Psychology
    • Studies the human mind, brain, and social behavior
    • Includes subfields like abnormal psychology, developmental psychology, cognitive psychology and social psychology
    • Most often associated with the study, diagnosis and treatment of mental illnesses
  • Sociology
    • Studies society, social order, social interactions, and culture
    • Introduces the concepts of social capital and communitarianism
  • Civil Society Perspective
    • Stresses the idea of forming a group, foundation or an organization in service to society
    • Views society as a community of citizens linked by common interests and collective activity
    • Considered the affective model of community as a sense of belonging is achieved due to collaboration of shared interests and identities in serving humanity
  • Local and Grassroots Perspectives
    • Highlights volunteerism
    • Community uses self-organization and encourages local citizens to contribute by taking responsibilities and actions
    • Leaders and members identify concerns and determine ways to address them
  • Doctors and dentists in different communities come together to organize medical and dental missions especially for families affected by calamities
  • The youth are often excited to engage themselves in outdoor activities like farming, fishing, and planting trees and crops
  • First Dimension:
    It is an existing establishment or physical space where members of the community go for a certain purpose.
  • Second Dimension: It is the institutional community as a social model. This is defined by networks and institutions where community groups are formed in certain areas such as schools, churches, or companies.
  • Third Dimension: The community is composed of the ways people act, interact with each other, react, and expect each other to act and interact.
  • Community power
    The capacity of the community to exercise control over activities and seek ways to employ available resources to establish a stronger and successful community
  • Community structure
    The various aspects in the community which includes demographics, geography and environmental influences, beliefs and attitudes and the likes
  • Leaders
    Important figures in the community who must possess important characteristics
  • Leaders
    • Effective communication
    • Development of social capital building
    • Community engagement
    • Collaboration
  • Collaboration
    Leaders should learn to "build bridges" and develop networks among community leaders within the diverse fields
  • Collaboration
    One of the essential characteristics of leaders to build bridges and develop networks among community leaders in the different fields
  • Formal power structure
    They are appointed based on qualifications, attitude and most often, through the votes of the residents