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The Latin word where “community” was derived, meaning “common” or “shared.”
Communis
Any activity that aims to increase the understanding, engagement, and empowerment of communities for the intention of giving services to people.
Community action
A community formed based on needs, ideas, interests, identity, practices, and roles in social institutions.
Nongeographical community
The perspective that views the community as composed of people interacting with one another, sensitive to emotions and subjective points of view.
Social science perspective
The field that examines biology, behavior, culture, and social interactions of humans.
Anthropology
It specifically talks about community sentiments where it refers to the state of its members having a feeling of belongingness.
Sense of Common Sentiments
The changes in the community brought about by social, cultural, and environmental experiences.
Community dynamics
The critical approach characterized by alterations of cultural attitudes, values, behavior, or social organization.
Social change
The critical approach in community dynamics that focuses on the community’s capacity to control activities and resources.
Enumerate the three types of communities based on a sociological perspective.
Urban, rural, suburban
This discipline studies the human mind, brain, and social behavior. This extends to interaction between people and interpersonal relationships.
Psychology
The institutional dimension defined as an existing establishment or physical space where members go for a certain purpose.
First dimension
Enumerate the five dimensions of a community
Political, Social, Economic, Geographical, Cultural
The field that studies production, allocation, and consumption of goods and services.
Economics
Briefly explain why “A community has a name” is considered a characteristic of a community.
A community has a name because having a name makes communities unique and identifiable to others.
The critical approach requiring leaders to lead members toward shared objectives.
Leadership
The key point of community action that raises awareness about communal issues.
Understanding
The field concerning ways of allocating power, influence, and decision-making.
Political science
It describes that community has multiple and continued shared goals and fulfillment of various ends.
Fulfillment of wider ends
Enumerate the three key points in understanding the definition of community action.
Understanding, engagement, empowerment
This perspective highlights volunteerism. Members of communities may involve themselves in various programs or activities.
Local and Grassroots Perspectives
A community where members share the same geographical vicinity such as a village, province, or neighborhood.
Geographical community
A network of human relationships that are connected to one another either by norms, religion, values, or identity.
Community
This field is the study of society, social order, social interactions, and culture. It introduces the concepts of social capital and communitarianism.
Sociology
It explains the connection between the individual and the community.
Communitarianism