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CO QAH + MELC LW

HANDOUT No. 2
Course Outline & Quality Assured
Handouts paired with MELC- Based in COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND
Learner’s Worksheet SOLIDARITY AND CITIZENSHIP

MELC: Define community using various perspectives, e.g., social sciences, institutions, civil society, and
local/grassroots level (HUMSS_CSC12-IIa-c-2)
Semester: 2nd Week No. 1.b Day: 1-4
LESSON: Definition of Community in Various Perspective.

 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, SOLIDARITY AND CITIZENSHIP introduces the concepts and


perspectives of community that seek to explain the importance of studying community dynamics and
community action in relation to applied social sciences and the students’ future career options.
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TOPIC 1: Definition of community in various perspective.

COMMUNITY
-a group of people living in the same place or having a
particular characteristic in common (Oxford Language)

The meaning of the term COMMUNITY can vary


depending upon the context on how it is being used. But
when people talk about community, they generally refer to
it as either one of the three most common notions of
defining community.
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Community is define in various perspectives as:

1. Community as shared political territory and heritage:


A traditional understanding of community refers to a group of
people living in the same geographical area (either as a
neighborhood, village, town, or city) where interpersonal ties are
locally bounded and are based on shared government and a common
cultural and historical heritage (Wellman1999; Johnson, Heady, and
Jensen 2005; Dictionary.com 2016). Since community is viewed here
as something that is situated within local boundaries, this notion of
community is applied to the institutional and grassroots include people
living in territorial enclaves (sitios), villages, or barangay organized. .alamy.com/comp/FGBX1D/entrance-to-barangay-
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2. Community as network of interpersonal ties on common


interest:
Another notion of community refers to a network of
interpersonal ties that are based around a common interest. These ties,
in turn, provide mutual support, a sense of identity, and sense of
belongingness for the members. For example, one can refer to a
sporting community; a business community; or LGBT community, to
name a few.
A special type of community based on common interest that is
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gaining popularity and increasing membership today is the virtual or
20191108/2637239-1 online community whose members are popularly known as netizens. On
the other hand, the notion of community as a network of interpersonal ties is often applied to civil society
perspective.

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Civil society organizations (CSOs) can include nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), trade
unions, faith-based organization, indigenous people’s movements, human rights movement, environmental
movements, and networks among others. Examples of known CSOs are Gawad Kalinga, World Vision and
many others.

3. Community as profound sharing of spiritual and/or emotional connection.


This understanding of community pertains to a sense of
spiritual and/or emotional connection to others, or communion with
others on the basis of an experience of a common problem (examples,
being afflicted with cancer or any form of terminal illness, having
realizations that individual actions are inevitably linked to others which
evoke meaningful attachments). In other cases, such spiritual and/or
emotional connection is based on an epiphany that human beings,
and all creations, are one since came from the same life matter
(secular belief of connectedness) or all are created by a certain deity
(seeing each other as brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ or Allah, or
in some other cases a belief in pantheism).

SENSE OF COMMUNITY
A Sense of community – The term means “a feeling that members have of belonging, a feeling that
members matter to one another and to the group, and a shared faith that members’ needs will be met
through their commitment to be together”.

The Four Elements of the Sense of Community


1. MEMBERSHIP – refers to the feeling of belonging or of sharing a sense of personal relatedness.
It consists of five attributes:
a. Boundaries – allowing others to belong and keep others out
b. Emotional safety – feeling of security and thrust in revealing how one really feels.
c. Sense of belonging and identification – members’ feeling that they belong, fit in, and are accepted by
the community.
d. Personal investment – sacrifices made to maintain membership in the community.
e. Common symbol system – things used to represent the community such as emblems, rituals, rite of
passage, dress codes, etc. in order to further create and maintain a sense of community.
2.INFLUENCE – refers to the sense of having importance or of feeling valued, wherein there is balance
between (a) members feeling that they have a say in the community and (b) a community being a body that
also has the power to make it conform.
3.INTEGRATION AND FULFILMENT OF NEEDS – refers to the feeling of fulfilment, which stems from the
personal investments that members make in maintaining community membership or in participating in
community activities and affairs.
4.SHARED EMOTIONAL CONNECTION – refers to a sense of shared cultural and historical heritage and
the feeling that common experiences will continue to be shared in the future.
REFERENCES
Reference Book:
Abenir, Community Engagement, Solidarity, and Citizenship 2017, Abenir, Community Engagement,
Solidarity, and Citizenship 2017

Website:
“Community in the Philippines - Google Search.” Accessed December 10, 2020. https://www.google.com.ph/search?
q=community+in+the+philippines&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwj20Nmvt8PtAhUpKqYKHeGpAmwQ2-
cCegQIABAA&oq=COMM.
(Abenir 2017)

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