Community Engagement, Solidarity and Citizenship

1. COMMUNITY IN
DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES
MR. CARL PATRICK S. TADEO
SHS TEACHER

3. Nature of a Community
It is a sociological construct.
It has fuzzy boundaries
It can exist within a larger community.
It may move.

4. A community is…
‘super-organic organism or system,’ made
up of the thoughts, outlook and conduct of
individual human beings full of divisions
and conflicts brought about by differences.
Differences: religion, ethnicity, gender, access to resources, class,
educational level, income level, ownership of properties, language,
personality, etc.

5. ETYMOLOGICAL ORIGIN
Community – Late Middle English Term
-Latin – ‘communitas’ – fellowship
- Latin roots – communis – common
- com – with or together
- munire – to strengthen, to fortify

6. COMMUNITY IN DIFF. PERSPECTIVE
•Social Science Perspective
•Institutional Perspective
•Civil Society Perspective
•Organic/ Grassroot Level Perspective

7. SOCIAL SCIENCE PERSPECTIVE
Political Science
•Conceptualized the ideal (political) community
•Polis (city-state) – composed of various classes, each
performing roles and functions in pursuit of communal
goals (Plato)
•Aristotle – emphasized the role of political institutions in
maintaining and sustaining order within a community

8. SOCIAL SCIENCE PERSPECTIVE (cont.)
GEMEINSCHAFT GESSELSCHAFT
- ‘community’
- Is a community with a
tighter and more
comprehensive social
entity brought about by
‘variety of will’
- ‘society’ or ‘association’
- Is a group where individual
participate as members
driven solely by self-
interest
SOCIOLOGY: Types of Human Association
FERDINAND TONNIES (1887) –German Sociologist

9. SOCIAL SCIENCE PERSPECTIVE (cont.)
A community is a group of people whose connections
and relations are formed by their shared history,
experiences, geographies and identities.
MAN SOCIALIZATION COMMUNITY
developsthrough

10. INSTITUTIONAL PERSPECTIVE
Social Institutions – arise from voluntary shared agreements among individuals that generally
also shape their behaviors as collective; perform functions of community
Institutions – established rules that ensure the regular and predictable behavior