Communities are defined by shared cultural heritage, language, beliefs, and interests. They can be small, like villages, or large, like regions or nations. According to Murphy and Cunningham (2003), communities are given life through three interacting processes: the social fabric of human relationships, unique power structures, and local resource flows that constitute the economy. There are two main types of communities - traditional, which are based on geographical relations, and alternative, which focus more on integration and addressing oppression.

1. What is Community?

2. Community are generally
defined by their common
cultural heritage, language,
beliefs, and shared interest.

3. 2 classifications of Community
1. Small- such as barangays or
coastal villages
2.Large- such as region, state, or
nation

4. According to Murphy and
Cunnigham (2003)
-Community is given life by three (3)
interacting people processes
1. An underlying web of human
relation called social fabric.
2. A unique community power
structure.
3. A set of resource flow that constitute
the local economy

5. 2 main types of Community
1. Traditional type- Relates
communities with geographical
relation.
2. Alternative type- More subjective,
integrative and feminist and addresses
oppression and discrimination.