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The document discusses understanding local networks. It examines how social networks within a community can be mapped and used to identify creative solutions to problems. It defines strategic analysis and intuitive thinking, and explains how each approach can be applied to issues within one's community. Strategic analysis involves breaking problems down into parts through deliberate thinking, while intuitive thinking relies on collective experiences and pattern recognition to provide automatic responses. The document provides illustrations of a local network and the strategic analysis process. It compares the key differences between strategic analysis and intuitive thinking approaches.

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TNCT Week 3-4

The document discusses understanding local networks. It examines how social networks within a community can be mapped and used to identify creative solutions to problems. It defines strategic analysis and intuitive thinking, and explains how each approach can be applied to issues within one's community. Strategic analysis involves breaking problems down into parts through deliberate thinking, while intuitive thinking relies on collective experiences and pattern recognition to provide automatic responses. The document provides illustrations of a local network and the strategic analysis process. It compares the key differences between strategic analysis and intuitive thinking approaches.

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UNDERSTANDING

LOCAL NETWORKS
UNDERSTANDING LOCAL NETWORKS
Learning Objective: After completing this module, the learners are
expected to:
1. Examine how the map of social networks can be used to
introduce creative solutions to a particular Problem in a
community.
2. Understand the definition and key components of strategic
analysis and strategic thinking.
3. 3. Be able to apply strategic analysis and intuitive thinking in
issues concerning one's community.
Local Networks?
A network is a group of people whom we interact daily. Our
relationships are networked. If you look at nature, networks are
everywhere. The cellular network in the human brain, for instance,
is an amazing network that makes human life possible.
In examining a local network, we need to look into the kinds of
relationships that operate within a given community. We can start by
analyzing how these relationships relate to our status in a particular
group. For example, as a member of a family, we have social duties
and roles to do. Our performance of our duties as a member of the
family enriches our relationship with other family members.
Our relationship within our family network allows us to learn values,
behaviors, and tradition that become part of our character and world
views. What we learn from our family is extended to other kinships and
friends and is modified in the process of socialization within a wider set
of social relationships.
Take a look at the following diagram for a concretized
illustration of a local network.
Shown in the diagram are the four levels of social
system:
households/family, barangay/village, country, and global
networks.
• Local network subsumes social interaction within family
and barangay. Although, the illustration suggests that
country and global networks are found outside local
network, it is important to note that national or global
issues are mirrored in the community. National or global
policies are created in response to the social issues
happening within local networks.
We need to observe rules and policies of both the
local community and the larger society to fulfill our
duties and responsibilities as its members.
Additionally, our social roles also need to operate
within the frames of cultural norms. The diagram
also illustrates that every social person is
consciously and unconsciously made by interacting
among the interdependent layers of social systems.
Funds of Knowledge
The barangay's response to the problem was informed by funds of
knowledge. Funds of knowledge refer to the body of community
knowledge that emerges organically from lives, routines, experiences,
practices, and strategies of community people. At its heart, funds of
knowledge affirm that relationships matter: relationships between
households, between community leaders and community members, and
between community institutions and community people. The concept
shows that relationships are not only formed between two persons, but
are also drawn from the power, influence, experience, and interest of
those community people who create knowledge (Gonzalez, 2011).
Strategic Analysis and Intuitive Thinking
One important consideration in making decision is its effects to our
relationship with others and to our personal development. Since
human behavior is the product of the decision one makes, it is
fundamental to understand the processes and elements involved in
decision-making.

There are two systems one can employ in making decisions:


strategic analysis and intuitive thinking.
• Strategic Analysis
• Intuitive thinking
Strategic analysis refers to a
system or method that requires
deliberate, abstract, and effortful
thinking
that breaks down a complex problem
into parts. Deliberate thinking
employs a detailed examination of a
problem to come up with a solution.
This involves looking at the context
of the problem.
The most common strategic analysis model used in decision-making
follows five steps as illustrated in the diagram below.
 Identify- involves defining the problem and the factors or
conditions involved in the situation
 Analyze-examining the variables that will change the state
of the situation, including the potential challenges and its
causes
 Generate - setting practical, reasonable, and creative
criteria and strategies to solve the problem
 Implement- execution of the plan
 Assess and reflect on the outcome - draw lessons that
will guide you next time
Intuitive Thinking
This kind of thinking is experiential
in nature, meaning that it requires
collective experiences and deep
knowledge in analyzing and
providing a solution to a given
problem. Understanding the social
environment allows the person to
develop sensitivity awareness of the
surrounding, and pattern
recognition-all of which enable an
automatic Response to like events
and occurrences.
Comparisons Between Strategic Analysis
and Intuitive Thinking
Analytical Intuitive
Slow thinking Fast thinking
Effortful Automatic and always on
Follows certain procedures and models Dynamic
Mathematical, relies on facts Poor in statistics and probability
Linear Non-linear
Detailed Whole
Focused and deliberate Big picture
Abstract Experienced-based
Rational Gut feel
Usually (but not always) taught in school Usually (but not always) learned outside the
Inductive classroom
Future-oriented Setting
Deductive
Stored knowledge
Pattern matching
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