Community

Engagement,
Solidarity and
Citizenship
(Panganiban
Mr. Ryan CESC)
Friendly Reminder
If you didn’t do your assignment, just admit it
If you didn’t understand something, ask for help.
If you didn’t study for the test, accept the grade and resolve to
do it better next time.
If you refuse to follow my rules, accept the consequences.
This is not a Democracy.
This is MY period:
And I’m here for some reasons
TO TEACH YOU
TO INSPIRE YOU
TO HELP YOU GROW
And bring Change to the WORLD.

I’ll do my part. The rest is up to you

REMINDERS:
1. Respect
2. Discipline
3. Cooperation
4. Communication
5. Sympathy and
Empathy
Subject Description:
This course focuses on the application of ideas and methods of
the Social Sciences to understand, investigate, and examine challenges
of contemporary community life. It focuses on community-action
initiatives such as community-engagement, solidarity, and citizenship
as guided by the core values of human rights, social justice,
empowerment, and advocacy, gender equality, and participatory
development. It aims at enhancing student’s’ sense of shared identity
and willingness to contribute to the pursuit of the common good of
the community. It enables students to integrate applied Social
Sciences into community- action initiatives.
Requirements of
this course
1. Portfolio Grading
2. project system
3. research 20% written
4. exams 60%
5. Social Scientist of
the day
Performance
6. news report task
7. Community 20% exam
 Course Outline
Chapter I: Concept of Community
1. What is community
a. Definition
b. Elements and Approaches
c. Importance
2. Different Perspective on community
3. Types of Communities
4. Dimensions of a Community
5. Typologies Of Community
a. function of a community
Chapter 2: Community Engagement
1.Definition of Community Engagement
2. Community actions and community development
a. Community action in the Social Science
3. Issues and Problems of Communities
4. The role of the Youth in community action
Chapter 3: Core Values and Principles of Community Engagement
a. Human rights, Social Justice, & Gender Equality
Chapter 4 : Methodologies and Approaches of Community actions and
involvement across disciplines
Chapter 5: Field Practicum
a. Ethnography
 Activity # 1 “El Galleria”
Topic: “ The Concept of Community
Objective: To defined and determine your concept about community
Task: to make a collage of images abut the definition of community
Instructions:
1. Group your self into 5 , Then give each of them assign number.
2. Each member will be given an assign numbers, which correspond to their
specific task; for nos. 1-3-5 ( They are assign to cut or print pictures that they
think related to the concept of community.) For no. 4 ( they are the secretary
of the group who prepare the list of members, and also the one who write and
synthesize the descriptions given by the each members of the group. And for
no. 2 ( They are the representative of the group who explain your work.)
3. Post or Place your work on the board.
 Activity # 2 “Nagmasid, nanood, nagsuri”
Topic: “ The Concept of Community
Objective: To observe and analyse a community
Task: Watch three different short films/ documentary about community life
and then do the following activities.
Instructions:
A. Masid at nood- “observe & watch”
1. Watch a short films/documentary about community life.
2. Take down notes on the important activities, people, objects and events
that can you observed in the documentary films.
3. Make a comparative analysis using a “task-sheet” given to you by your
teacher
The concept of
Community
“ Every person is defined by the
community ( he or ) she belongs to”
-Orson Scott Car
Community- from the word “
communitas” means “ Fellowship.
- “ communis “ common”
- Com- “ with or together”
- munire- “ to strengthen to fortify
or to defend”
What is Community?
 Are generally defined by their
common cultural heritage, language,
beliefs, and shared interest
According to Murphy and Cunningham
(2003)
- Community can be classified into
a. Small- Small place-based community
of a barangay or coastal village

b. Large- region, state, or nation

Small communities have defined territories and are
given life by three interacting people processes;

a. Social fabric- an underlying web of human

relationship
1. Social fabric- an underlying web of human
relationships.
Neighborhood/ Friendship
It is the building block of a society,
as it is through these that norms
are produced from consistent
exchanges of individuals and
groups.
2. Unique community power structure
3. Set of resource flows that
constitute a local economy
- The dynamics of a community is determined
by its nature and structure and how it reacts
with External or internal forces.

- It is thus important to recognize the

characteristics and features of a community to
understand. Why it acts and reacts in a certain
way.
Nature of a
Community
Community has a sociological construct
Community has fuzzy boundaries
A community can exist within a larger
community
A community may move
Dimensions of
Community
 A community is a complex system with different
dimensions. These dimensions may be present in all
communities but they may vary in size, degree and
complexity. This characteristics of a community may be
attributed to the combination of the communities’ human
resources, natural resource, culture, structure and the
other factors.
1. Technological Dimensions
- the community Capitals, its tools, skills and the ways of
people dealing with the physical environment .
- It is the interface between humanity and nature.
-It is not the physical tools themselves which make up the
technological dimension of culture, but it is the learned ideas and
behaviour which allow humans to invent, use, and teach others
about tools.
Economic Dimensions
- refers to the various ways and means of production and
allocation of scarce and useful goods and services through barter, market
trade and state allocation.
Political Dimensions or organizational capacity
- The various ways of and means of allocating power,
influence and Decision makings.
Institutional Dimensions
- Are the ways people act, react, and interact with each other, as well
As the ways they expect each other to act and interact.
- pattern of relationships
Aesthetic- Values
The structure of ides- sometimes inconsistent, or contradictory- that
people have about what is good and bad, beautiful and ugly, and right and
wrong. The way that they use to justify their actions.
Beliefs- Conceptual
- Another structure of ideas, also sometimes contradictory, that
people have about the nature of the universe, the world around them
- To be aware on the prevailing beliefs in the community.