Scribd
Upload
18 views

What Is Community Action? What Encompasses It?: How Is Citizenship Acquired?

Community action encompasses community engagement, solidarity, and citizenship building. It involves campaigns undertaken by community members to improve their community. The core principles of community engagement include careful planning, inclusion, collaboration, openness, transparency, impact, and sustained participation. Core principles of community solidarity are human dignity, the common good, subsidiarity, preferential option for the poor, economic justice, environmental stewardship, and peace. Citizenship can be acquired by birthright, marriage, or naturalization. Communities can be formal or informal, urban or rural, global, sectoral, or based on social spaces like physical gathering places or online forums.

Uploaded by

Joan Cabacungan
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
18 views

What Is Community Action? What Encompasses It?: How Is Citizenship Acquired?

Community action encompasses community engagement, solidarity, and citizenship building. It involves campaigns undertaken by community members to improve their community. The core principles of community engagement include careful planning, inclusion, collaboration, openness, transparency, impact, and sustained participation. Core principles of community solidarity are human dignity, the common good, subsidiarity, preferential option for the poor, economic justice, environmental stewardship, and peace. Citizenship can be acquired by birthright, marriage, or naturalization. Communities can be formal or informal, urban or rural, global, sectoral, or based on social spaces like physical gathering places or online forums.

Uploaded by

Joan Cabacungan
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 3

What is community action? What encompasses it?

=Community action is a campaign undertaken by people living


in a particular place. It is also an action undertaken by members
of community for that community’s own improvement.
Community action encompasses community engagement,
community of solidarity and citizenship building

What are the core principles of community


engagement?
=The core principles of community engagement are:
1. Careful Planning and Preparation
2. Inclusion and Demographic Diversity
3. Collaboration and shared purpose
4. Openness and Learning
5. Transparency and Trust
6. Impact and Action
7. Sustained Engagement and Participatory Culture

What are the core principles of Community


Solidarity?
1. Dignity of the Human Person
2. The common Good
3. Subsidiary Regardless of Ideological Differences
4. Preferential option for the poor
5. Preferential Option for the poor
6. Economic Justice
7. Stewardship of creation
8. Promotion of peace
How is citizenship acquired?
Citizenship is acquired in four ways
The first one is Jus Sanguinis (By blood), Jus Soli (by
Soil/land), Jure Matrimonii( By marriage to a citizen) and by
Naturalization.
What are the different types of community?
Formal Communities
Informal Communities
Urban Communities
Rural Communities
Global Communities
Sectoral Communities
Social Space Communities

Describe and give examples of each type of community.


-Formal Communities
Engage in joint activities and discussion, help each other, and
share information with each other; they care about their standing
with each other.
Examples of formal communities are Ecovillages, Co-
housing communities, Co-ops communities, Religious
communities

-Informal Communities
Consists of a set of personal relations, social networks,
common interest and emotional sources of motivation.
Examples of formal communities are academic
communities , recreation communities and retirement
communities.

-Urban Communities
Large in terms of land area & population, advanced in science &
technology, with favorable physical environment and & diverse
cultures, and the people are engaged in various occupations.
Example: Cities and places that meets the characteristics of
Urban area. Like area that has many business establishments,
recreational centers, educational and religious institutions.
Rural Communities
Usually produce their own food for subsistence
Examples are areas like province that not yet fully established.

GLOBAL COMMUNITIES
It is the international aggregate of nation-states.
Common point of view towards issues of human rights, global
warming and climate change, peace and order, socio-economic
conditions as well as disputed issues such as territorial conflict.
Example: United Nations, ASEAN etc.

SECTORAL COMMUNITIES
Include the voluntary sector or non-profit sector
Sectoral communities are voluntary, non-profit and non-
governmental and also called third sector (in contrast to public
and private sector).
For example: UPF etc.

SOCIAL SPACE COMMUNITIES


Based on social spaces
Social space communities a social space is a physical or virtual
space
Example:
Physical: social center, gathering place, town squares, parks,
pubs, shopping malls
Social space communities are the Virtual: online social media,
websites

You might also like