COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, SOLIDARITY, On Becoming a Netizen

AND CITIZENSHIP

Membership (Spirit) – Relatable

1. Community as shared Political and
Influence (Trust) – Influence and Value
Heritage
- refers to a group of people living in the Integration and Fulfillment (Trade) – Fulfill
same geographical area.
Shared Emotional Connection (Art) - History
Eg. Filipinos, Asians, Novo Ecijanos,
etc.
Community Structures
2. Community as a network of
1. Community Social Structure
interpersonal ties based on common
- The rules help to regulate and manage
interests.
interaction.
- refers to a network of interpersonal ties
that are based on a common interest.

Eg. LGBT Community, netizens, Civil 2. Community Cultural Structure

Society - The patterns or ways of life that are
Organizations (CSOs) shared, learned, developed, and
accepted.
3. Community as profound sharing of
spiritual and/or emotional connection.
- pertains to a sense of spiritual and/or 3. Community Political Structure
emotional connection to others based on - The ways of allocating power and
common experience. making decisions.

Eg. Community of Disaster Survivors,

Christian Community
4. Community Economic Structure
- People produce goods and generate
wealth to satisfy their needs and wants.
Sense of Community
- refers to the feeling that members
belong to the community, that Community Social Structure
members matter to one another, and
that members have a shared faith that ✔ Family For you to consider
community social structure,
- their needs will be met through their
commitment to stay in that community. ✔ Education you need to consider the
social institutions, the
✔ Economic social groups, the status,
4 Elements of the Sense of Community and the role.
✔ Government
1. Membership (Spirit)
- Belonging or relatedness. ✔ Church
2. Influence (Trust)
- Having importance or feeling valued. ✔ Health Care
3. Integration and Fulfillment (Trade)
- Fulfillment of getting something back.
4. Shared Emotional Connection (Art) Community Cultural Structure
- Shared culture and history will continue
over time. Consists of symbols and language
like our very own baybayin, norms
like pagmamano, values and like
pakikisama, rituals like senakulo,
and artifacts that have special
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2. Suburban Community
- Suburban communities are areas that
tread between urban and rural
communities. These settlements are
Community Political Structure located on the outskirts of urban areas
and are less dense than urban areas
Composed of political organizations,
or are composed of a medium-sized
citizenship norms, power relations,
population.
and leadership structures.
3. Rural Community
- Rural communities are located in the
Political Organizations are political parties countryside. The houses are far from
and political groups that can be a form of each other and the density of people
advocacy groups, pressure groups, campaign living there is the least of the three.
groups, and interest groups. Livelihood is mostly from farming
and livestock raising.
Citizenship norms are the shared set of
expectations about the citizen’s role in politics.
Power relations pertain to different groups in Community Action
the community that are composed of dominant
A community is a good reflection of the people
groups and minority groups.
who live there. Whatever action is committed by its
Leadership structure refers to the composition people will surely have an impact on the community
of recognized leaders. It could be hierarchal as a whole.
(top-down leadership.) or egalitarian (horizontal
Action is the heart of community-building. From
leadership)
conceptualization, planning, implementation, and
action make things happen. Actions give life to
thought.
Community Economic Structure

Community Action refers toCommunity

collective economic
efforts of
✔ Human Capital people to address social problems
structure is(e.g. social
composed
inequalities, environmental of degradation,
capital assets, and
✔ Social Capital poverty) to achieve human well-being
vulnerability and
community development. context, business
✔ Natural Capital climate, and trade.

✔ Physical Capital
Forms of Community Engagement
✔ Financial Capital
Community Engagement is all about connecting
to the community and its people. It refers to the
process of developing and sustaining relationships
COMMUNITY TYPOLOGIES with and through groups of people who are
affiliated by geographical proximity or common
1. Urban Community interests, to work for their common good and
- An urban area is the region surrounding address issues that affect their well-being.
a city. Most inhabitants of urban areas
have nonagricultural jobs. Urban areas 1. Service Learning
are very developed, meaning human 2. Community Outreach
structures are dense such as houses, 3. Community-engaged Research
commercial buildings, roads, bridges,
and railways.
 Solidarity
The firm and persevering determination to commit
oneself to the common good by mutually supporting
and sustaining movements for social change and
social justice.