CESC

• Community: a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common
• The word community was derived from the Latin word

  communis, which means "common" or "shared".

  community
• is any activity that aims to increase the understanding,

  engagement and empowerment of communities for

  the intention of giving services to people.

  Community Action
• The changes in the community brought about by social, cultural

  and environmental experiences whether it is positive or negative

  development that impacts within the community.

  Community Dynamics
• enable the people to independently decide, plan out and

  take action to control the situation they have in the

  community.

  Empowerment
• It is a community formed based on needs, ideas, interests, identity, practices, and roles in social institutions.

  Non-geographical Community
• It is a community where members share the same

  geographical vicinity such as a village, province or

  neighborhood.

  Geographical Community
• A community wherein a group is formed based on personal ties.

  Micro Level Community
• Is a positive product of human

  interaction. The network of relationships within

  particular society, to function effectively.

  Social Capital
• large group affiliation is formed such

  as national communities, international communities,

  and virtual communities.

  Macro Level community
• 3-KEY POINTS IN GRASPING THE

  DEFINITION MORE MEANINGFUL

  Understanding

  Engagement

  Empowerment
• raise an awareness about certain

  communal issues that needs to be addressed.

  Understanding
• Once issues are assessed properly

  and people in the community understand the needs,

  they work collaboratively to act on it.

  Engagement
• enable the people to independently

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  situation they have in the community.

  Empowerment
• refers to the feeling of belonging

  or of sharing a sense of personal relatedness. It

  consists of five attributes:

  Membership
• allowing others to belong and

  keep others out.

  Boundaries
• feeling of security and trust.

  Emotional Safety
• members' feeling that they belong, fit in, and are accepted by the

  community.

  Sense of belonging and identification
• sacrifices made to maintain

  membership in the community.

  Personal investment
• represent the community

  such as emblems, ritual, rites of passage, dress codes,

  Common symbol system
• 5 attributes of membership

  Boundaries

  Emotional safety

  Sense of belonging and Identity

  Personal investment

  Common Symbol System
• refers to the sense of having importance

  or of feeling valued, wherein there is balance between

  members feeling that they have a say in the community

  and a community being a body that also has the power

  to make its members conform.

  Influence
• refers to the feeling

  of fulfilment, which stems for persona investments that

  members make in maintaining community membership or

  in participating in community activities and affairs.

  Integration and fulfillment of needs
• refers to a sense of

  shared cultural and heritage and the feeling that common

  experiences will continue to be shared in the future.

  Shared Emotional Connection
• FOUR ELEMENTS OF SENSE OF

  COMMUNITY

  Membership

  Influence

  integration and fulfillment of needs

  Shared emotional connection
• refers to the rules and expectations that people

  develop in the community over time to help regulate and

  manage their interaction from one another.

  Social Structure
• are established patterns of belief

  and behavior that are centered on addressing basic social

  needs of people in the community.

  Social Institutions
• consist of two or more people in the community

  who regularly interact with one another and consider themselves a

  distinct social unit.

  Social Group
• refers to the position or rank of the person holds, in

  relation to other members of the community. i. Example: Ascribed

  Status and Achieved Status

  Status
• refers to the obligations or behaviors expected from an

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  individual on the basis of one's status in life.

  Role
• refers to the institutionalized patterns of ways of life that are shared,

  learned, developed, and accepted by the people in the community.

  Cultural Structure
• are the shared words, gestures,

  objects, or signals which people in a community use to convey and

  develop recognizable meanings.

  Symbol and Language
• are socially accepted behavior.

  Norms
• values define the ideal principle of

  what is good, just and desirable. Belief refer to the shared

  ideas of what is collectively true by people in a community.

  values and beliefs
• refers to the sacred or secular procedures and

  ceremonies that people in the community regularly

  perform.

  Rituals
• refers to the people's established

  ways of allocating power and making decisions in running

  and managing community affairs.

  Political Structure
• refer to the composition of

  recognized leaders in the community and the workflow of

  their authority.

  Leadership structure
• pertains either to political parties

  or political groups in the community who are engaged in Political activity

  political Organization
• pertains to various organized ways and means through which people in the community produce goods and services, allocate limited resources, and generate wealth on order to satisfy their needs and wants.

  Economic Structure
• refers to a property that is owned and has an economic value, which is expected to generate interest and profit for a long period of time.

  Capital Asset