LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEET

LAS 3 - Week 3

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, SOLIDARITY AND CITIZENSHIP

Name of Learner: _____________________________________________________________

Grade Level: __________________________ Strand/Track: _____________________
Section: __________________________ Date: _____________________________

Introduction

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After learning the different perspectives and various groups existing in the
community, it is now time to further understand and get to know your community
deeper by examining its structure, dynamics and processes. These elements are what
make your community unique from others. Recognizing these unique characteristics

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and features will help you consider why and how your community acts and reacts the
way it does. Despite the complexities within a community, understanding community

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diversity as to its elements will allow you to appreciate the richness of your social milieu.

B. Learning Competency
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Analyze functions of communities in terms of structures, dynamics, and
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C. Exercises/Activities
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DIRECTIONS: Identify what is being describe in every item. Choose your

answer from the box below. Write the letter of the correct answer.

_______________1. It is the function of community where members are open to

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interactions that encourage cooperation and solidarity.

_______________2. Mechanisms within communities such as social pressure or formal

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institutions, regulate the conduct and behavior of community

members.

_______________3. Communities provide its members livelihood through the use of its
resources and the system of exchange embedded therein such as
trade and commerce.

_______________4. Communities function by allowing its members to thrive through

association and involvement.

_______________5. Focuses on how a community is shaped by the physical space it

uses and the location of its resources.
_______________6. Refers to people’s way of life. It encompasses the values and beliefs
that are passed on from one generation to another.

_______________7. Refers to the means by which members of a community allocate,

produce, and distribute scarce resources to address their wants and
needs.

_______________8. It refers to the relationships of power and control between

individuals and groups in a community.

_______________9. They can propose, pressure and effect decisions made by the
decision makers according to their interests and agenda

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_______________10. They are the mayors, council members & Barangay Captains
whose authority is based on formal rules and institutions.

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A. Legal Authoritative Decision-Maker G. Socialization
B. Production-Distribution-Consumption H. Geographical Dimension
C. Critical Actors
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D. Mutual Support J. Social Control
E. Influencers K. Economic Dimension
F. Social Participation L. Cultural Dimension
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Elements of Community
In the previous lesson you learned the definitions of community using various
perspectives such as social sciences, institutions, civil society, and local/grassroots
level to its basic and understandable form. At this point, it is expected that you already
have applied these categorizations into an understanding of the real world.
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My Community
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DIRECTIONS: How well do you know your community? With the

information you have about your community, let us test how
knowledgeable you are with the following questions. Answer with full
honesty for a fruitful discussion.

Who is the incumbent mayor, vice

mayor, councilors and other local
officials in your municipality and
barangay?
Who is the incumbent mayor, vice
mayor, councilors and other local
officials in your municipality and
barangay?

What are the particular roles of

these officials in your community?

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Give at least one project initiated
by the Local Government and

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discuss how it became beneficial
for your community?
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When was your municipality or
barangay established? Who are
the prominent people and what
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are the historical events your
municipality or barangay is known
for?
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What are the famous products or

delicacies your municipality or
barangay is known for?
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Processing Question:

After answering the five questions, what did you notice about your stock
knowledge regarding your community? Do you know well your community?

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 Me, Myself and My Community

DIRECTIONS: Write down all the things and efforts you are doing or you
have done that become beneficial to your community.

Me, Myself and My Community

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Song Analysis – Akoy Isang Mabuting Pilipino by Noel Cabangon
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Direction: Read and analyze the lyrics of the song ( You can also listen
to it using this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tg5U1bQFI&t=19s ). Answer
the questions that follow.

AKO’Y ISANG MABUTING TAO

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NI NOEL CABANGON
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Processing Question:

1. How do you feel after reading or listening to the song?

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2. What is/are the message/s of the song?

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3. Can you consider yourself as “Mabuting Pilipino” as described by the song? Why

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or why not?
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4. After analyzing the lyrics of the song, what are the things you need to change in

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yourself for you to become a good citizen? Explain your answer.
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5. As a member of the community, what can you contribute that will lead to
development or advancement of your community?

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Functions of Community
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A community is a group of people in the same geographic area, under common

laws, that has a sense of fellowship, belonging, and obligation to the group. Types of
communities are a neighborhood, church, a mom's group, a town, girl scouts etc.

The community has five functions: production-distribution-consumption,

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socialization, social control, social participation, and mutual support.

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1. Production, Distribution, consumption: The community provides its members

with the means to make a living. This may be agriculture, industry, or services.

2. Socialization: The community has means by which it instills its norms and values
in its members. This may be tradition, modeling, and/or formal education.

3. Social Control: The community has the means to enforce adherence to

community values. This may be group pressure to conform and/or formal laws.

4. Social Participation: The community fulfills the need for companionship. This
may occur in a neighborhood, church, business, or other group.
 5. Mutual Support: The community enables its members to cooperate to
accomplish tasks too large or too urgent to be handled by a single person.
Supporting a community hospital with tax dollars and donations is an example
of people cooperating to accomplish the task of health care.

Structural Dimensions of Community

Community structure is represented by the social hierarchies that are inherent
to each collective. It is also the attributes and characteristics of the elements of the
community and how these elements are interrelated. Understanding these
dimensions will benefit the actors and players of the community in facing challenges

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such as issues and problems which are typically multidimensional.

There are four basic structural dimensions of community that are significant in
understanding the dynamics and advancement of community.

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The Geographical Dimension of Community
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a community is shaped by the physical space
and the location of its resources such as
human, natural resources, and technological.
An examination of a community’s
geographic system would typically start by
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looking at the scope and limits of its territory,
distribution of its population, and the location
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of its resources.

The Political Dimension of Community

The political dimension of community is its various ways and means of

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allocating power, influence and decision making. It is not the same as ideology, which
belongs to the values dimension. It includes, but is not limited to, types of governments
and management systems. It also includes how people in small bands or informal
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groups make decisions when they do not have a recognized leader. Political power
is among the sixteen elements of community power or organizational capacity. The
more political power and influence it has, the more it can do the things it desires.

The Cultural Dimension of Community

The belief-conceptual dimension of community is another structure of ideas, also

sometimes contradictory, that people have about the nature of the universe, the
world around them, their role in it, cause and effect, and the nature of time, matter,
and behavior. This dimension is sometimes thought to be the religion of the people. It
is a wider category, and also includes atheistic beliefs, for example, that man created
God in his own image. It includes shared beliefs in how this universe came to be, how
it operates, and what is reality. It is religion and more

The animator must learn study and be aware of what the prevailing beliefs are
in the community. To be an effective catalyst of social change, the animator must
make suggestions and promote actions which do not offend those prevailing beliefs,
and which are consistent with, or at least appropriate to, existing beliefs and concepts
of how the universe works.

Community is a cultural organism, and that it was something that went beyond
those individual human beings that make it up. Culture in the social sciences is
something far more than opera and ballet, so what is it? Culture consists of all those

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things, including actions and beliefs which human beings (as physical animals) learn,
which make them human. Culture includes learned behavior, but not things which
are determined genetically. Culture is stored and transmitted by symbols; never by
chromosomes. While some culture is learned in childhood (like how to talk, for

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example), other culture is learned by adults.

The important thing to remember is that in any society, in any community, in

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any institution, in any interaction between individuals, there is an element of culture,
and that includes something of each of those six cultural dimensions. All of these are
learned from birth. The new-born child is like an animal, not yet a human being, but
he or she begins learning culture (humanizing) immediately (for example, when
drinking from the breast) by interacting with other humans, and thus starts becoming
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human. (Many say that this humanizing process begins in the womb). This process of
learning, and thus of becoming, continues until death. If you are not learning, you are
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dead.

The Economic Dimension of Community

The economic dimension of community is its various ways and means of

production and allocation of scarce and useful goods and services (wealth), whether
that is through gift giving, obligations, barter, market trade, or state allocations. It is
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not the physical items like cash which make up the economic dimension of culture,
but the ideas and behavior which give value to cash (and other items) by humans
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who have created the economic systems they use.

Wealth is not merely money, just as poverty is not merely the absence of
money. Wealth is among the sixteen elements of community strength or
organizational capacity. When the organization or community has more wealth (that
it can control as an organization or community) then it has more power and more
ability to achieve the things it wants to achieve. Over the broad course of human
history, the general trend in economic change has been from simple to more
complex. One system did not immediately replace another, but new systems were
added, and less useful ones slowly died out.
Community Dynamics and Processes
People make dynamic exchanges and interactions that give life and vibrancy
to our communities. Processes operationalize these exchanges into new ideas and
solutions to be applied in satisfying our pressing needs and wants. Knowing how these
exchanges manifest and types of social mechanisms inherent in exchanges is vital in
understanding how norms are formed and the various functions of communities in
terms of its structure.

A community cannot exist without interaction among its members. People, by

nature, are social beings that are interdependent with each other. Individuals seek to

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exchange ideas and socialize with their kin or members of the community. Establishing
Social networks is one of the most important activities that are necessary for
communities to grow. All social beings, while unique to each other, are influenced by
one particular motivation and this self-interest. Self-interest is driven by our evolutionary
tendencies to survive.

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Each individual plays an important role for the progress of community
dynamics. Thus, community members are referred to as actors and mobilizers that
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contribute to the creation of meaning and harmony in the society. Community
progresses according to the kind of interaction and dynamics that exist in the social
environment.

Power Structure
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All types of communities with its diverse social systems have people or groups
of people who control decision-making functions. These people can be called key
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leaders or power actors. Power structure in the community refers to the roles that these
key leaders or “power actors” perform. They act together to get things done and
affect change that will significantly contribute to the goal of making the lives of the
community better. In order for community social action projects initiated by the power
actors to be a success, it is important to involve other key people in the community or
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the community at large. Power structure is categorized into formal power and informal
power structure.

1. Formal Power Structure – Authority or power comes from the legal authoritative
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basis of elected and appointed government officials and leaders of civic

organizations. Power actors in this category are referred to as legal-authoritative
decision-makers. They are individuals or bodies whose authority is based on formal
rules and institutions. They are the mayors, council members, barangay captains,
etc. who occupy positions of authority through legally mandated processes like
elections or formal political appointments.

2. Informal Power Structure – This exists alongside the formal-institutional power

structure. Power actors in this structure are known as influencers. They have power
primarily because of their influence, not just their positions of authority. These are
individuals or groups who do not have direct authority or title but are capable of
 shaping decisions that affect the community. They can propose, pressure and
effect decisions made by the decision makers according to their interests and
agenda. According to USDA-NRCS (2005), influence and power are usually
characterized by past achievements, source of ideas, human relations skills,
contact with others, access to needed resources, influence within community
organizations, past participation in community groups, length of residence in the
community, occupation, education, control of jobs, wealth, credit, and mass
media.

Call for Social Change

Society is ever-changing. It is never static since the people that make up the

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society are, in nature, continually changing in terms of their interactions on a certain
milieu. Social change refers to the fluctuations or deviations in the order of society.
Changes that affect its institutions, norms, or cultures are all variables that can affect
social change. Factors affecting social change are the structures and institutions that

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all contribute to the ongoing calibration of norms in our society

The most significant element for effecting change is the community. Together,
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we are the answer to the problems at hand. With the community, our personal choice
to be proactive, to volunteer and take part in movements, organizations, and projects
will be the critical elements for social change. It is high time to realize that change
does not exist outside of us but within us and our community. Empowered by the very
act of choosing, we have the power to initiate. It is time to move from the stands and
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be part of the solution, to shed off indifference, and to move toward building a better
community. We are all creators, builders, and architects of our future. Let us all unite
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and take charge; change is upon us and it starts with our choice.

My Contributions

DIRECTIONS: Identify a community leader from the government agency

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or non-government organizations in your locality who is actively

involved in community affairs.
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Conduct an interview whether virtual, by messaging, or telephone. Use the interview

guide found below. Construct a write-up to summarize the interview report. Include
learnings and realizations gained from the activity.

Dimension My Present Contribution My Future Contribution

Geographical

Socio-Political
Economic
Cultural
Interview Guide:

1. Name, position, and agency/organization

2. Give a short description and historical background of your agency/
organization.
3. What are the goals, objectives, and advocacies of the agency/organization?
4. What are the pressing issues and problems of the local community that the
agency/organization wants to address?
5. How do you plan to address these issues and problems? What are the programs
being initiated by your agency/organization to address these challenges?

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Grading Rubric for Interview Write-up

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Criteria 4 3 3 1
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requested in the items requested requested. of the items half of the items
instructions. but they are requested. requested.
completed
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expectations.
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meets all of the shows an meets all the meets almost all meets less than
requirements in exceptionally requirements in the requirements half the
the instructions as vibrant the instructions as in the instructions requirements in
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described in the description of the described in the as described in the instructions as

write-up. adult interviewed, write-up. the write-up. described in the
who meets the write-up
requirements.
Interview write-up Interview write-up Interview write-up Interview write-up Interview write-up
presents the presents an presents the presents the presents the
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answers to all of excellent record answers to all of answers to more answers to less
the questions in of the answers to the questions in than half of the than half of the
the instructions. all of the the instructions. questions in the questions in the
questions in the instructions. instructions.
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instructions.
Interview write-up Interview write-up Interview write-up Interview write-up Interview write-up
shows that at shows that at shows that at shows that at shows that no
least three least three least three least two additional
additional especially additional additional questions were
questions were insightful questions were questions were asked.
asked. additional asked. asked.
questions were
asked.
Assignment uses Assignment has Assignment has Assignment has Assignment has
proper grammar no grammar or one grammar or two grammar or more than two
and spelling. spelling errors. spelling error. spelling errors. grammar or
spelling errors.
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its assigned or its assigned or its assigned or its assigned or its assigned or
chosen media chosen media in chosen media chosen media chosen media
effectively. a way that effectively. somewhat ineffectively.
greatly enhances effectively.
it.
Assignment is Assignment is not Assignment is Assignment is Assignment is not
neatly done. only neat but is neatly done. neat for the most neat.
exceptionally part.
creative.
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Pledge of Commitment
DIRECTIONS: Compose a 2 stanza free verse poem for your pledge of
commitment towards effecting change in your community that will lead
to social change and community development.

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My Pledge of Commitment
(Poem)
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Poem Rubrics

Beginning 5pts. Developing 7pts. Accomplished 8pts. Exemplary 10 pts

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 Assessment
DIRECTION: Read each statement carefully. Choose the letter of the best
answer. Write the chosen letter on a separate sheet of paper.

1. The San Juan Farmers Association in San Juan, Batangas was known for its
exemplified contribution in the community by providing livelihood within the
municipality. Which function of the community is being described?
a. Production-Distribution-Consumption c. Social Control
b. Socialization d. Mutual Support

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2. This refers to on the instilling of norms, values, knowledge and skills into its member.
a. Production-Distribution-Consumption c. Social Control
b. Socialization d. Social Participation

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3. To make the community stable and maintain peace and order in the municipality,
curfew hours and drinking outside the house are now prohibited. This scenario is
best explained by ______.
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a. Production-Distribution-Consumption c. Social Control
b. Socialization d. Social Participation

4. Which of the elements of the community is best described by this statement “In
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order to understand the community, it is important to analyze its dynamics and
elements”.
a. Challenges communities face can be analyzed through a combination of
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interrelated dimensions.
b. Understanding communities does not require that we examine its structure and
dynamics.
c. Community issues and problems are can be address by looking at single
dimension only.
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d. Structures represent the types of community and their relations the society as
whole.
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5. A visitor from Manila stayed months in barangay Laiya for a vacation. During his
stay he noticed the uniqueness of this barangay for sharing positive thoughts and
ideas with the other members of the community. This shows that _____.
a. the barangay has strong sense of power relations.
b. the members of the barangay are Kdrama fanatics.
c. the barangay has good neighborhood association.
d. the barangay exemplified well the function of mutual support.

6. Another key dimension of the community is shaped by the physical space and the
location of its resources. This can be referred to as _____.
 a. Cultural Dimension c. Socio-Political Dimension
b. Economic Dimension d. Geographic Dimension

7. Badjao tribe located in Mindanao is one among the many tribes in the Philippines.
They have a rich set of values and beliefs which they pass from one generation to
another. This statement expresses the _____ of the Badjao community.
a. Cultural Dimension c. Socio-Political Dimension
b. Economic Dimension d. Geographic Dimension

8. There is an aspect of the community that is concerned with how exchange value

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is created. It is particularly concerned to the means by which members of a
community allocate, produce, and distribute scarce resources to address their
wants and needs. Which structural dimension is identified by this statement?
a. Cultural Dimension c. Socio-Political Dimension

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b. Economic Dimension d. Geographic Dimension

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9. What do you call the power when some members of the community do not hold
position in the government offices, yet they have the power to propose, pressure
and effect decisions made by the decision makers according to their interests and
agenda?
a. Influencers c. Socialites
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b. Legal Authoritative Decision Maker d. Elites
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10. The group of young people in the barangay makes impact in the total community
decision. Among the informal power structures that exist, why should they be
called an influencer?
a. They are the group who do not have direct authority but are capable of
changing the society.
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b. They are the group have a strong influential capability.

c. They are the group that are accepted by the community.
d. They are the group that has potential enough for change.
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References:
Books

De los Santos, Danilo Lorenzo S., Community Engagement, Solidariy, and Citizenship,
2018, REX Book Store

Module

Malabanan, Noreen S., Community Engagement, Solidariy, and Citizenship,

Alternative Delivery Mode 2020
Community Engagement, Solidarity and Citizenship Module
Published by the Department of Education
Reviewers: SDO Cavite Province –
LRMS Team Illustrator: N/A
Layout Artist: Bureau of Learning Resources; SDO LRMS Team and the Author
Management Team: SDO Cavite Province - LRMS Team

Internet Sources

https://sites.google.com/site/childfamilyschoolcommunity/community

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http://ashokyakkaldevi.lbp.world/BookPDF/BasicsConcept.pdf

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