This slide will be helpful to some students who are studying social sciences, and they will recognize the essential characteristics of communities in terms of elements and structures. They can also analyze the functions of communities in terms of structures.
2. Recognize essential characteristics
of communities in terms of elements
and structures.
Analyze the functions of communities
in terms of structures.
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Learning Targets:
8. -Based on the pictures being presented, what are
the different classifications of social groups in a
community?
GUIDE QUESTIONS
9. A community consists of:
SOCIAL, CULTURAL, POLITICAL and ECONOMIC
structures
COMMUNITY STRUCTURES
10. -refers to the rules and expectations that people
develop in the community over time to help regulate
and manage their interaction with one another.
ELEMENTS
-social institutions
-social groups
-statuses
-roles
COMMUNITY SOCIAL STRUCTURE
11. Social Institutions
-established patterns of belief and behavior that are
centered on addressing basic social needs of people
in the community.
-family, religion, economy, education,
government, and health care
COMMUNITY SOCIAL STRUCTURE
12. Social Groups
-Primary/Secondary Group - family, peers and
neighborhood/political parties, clubs
-Informal/Formal Groups - groups bonded by
common likes, interests, attitudes/created by an
organization to fullfil task
-In-groups/Out-groups
COMMUNITY SOCIAL STRUCTURE
13. Status
-the position or rank a person holds,
-It can be ascribed status or achieved status.
ASCRIBED
- which is assigned at birth
ACHIEVED
- acquired based on merit or accomplishment
COMMUNITY SOCIAL STRUCTURE
14. Role
-the obligations or behaviors expected from an
individual based on his/her status in life.
COMMUNITY SOCIAL STRUCTURE
15. -refers to the institutionalized patterns of ways of
life that are shared, learned, developed, and
accepted by people in the community.
It consists Symbols and Languages, Norms, Values
and Beliefs, Rituals, and Artifacts
COMMUNITY CULTURAL STRUCTURE
16. Symbols and Languages
Symbols are the shared words, gestures, objects, or
signals that people in a community use to convey and
develop recognizable meanings.
Language is a symbolic system that allows people to
develop complex thoughts and record and explain
new ideas either verbal or nonverbal means.
COMMUNITY CULTURAL STRUCTURE
17. Norms
-refer to specific cultural expectations on how to
behave in a given situation.
-it further divided into folkways, mores and laws.
-Folkways-are general standards of behavior that
people in the community adhere to.
-Mores-the strict norms that control moral and
ethical behavior
COMMUNITY CULTURAL STRUCTURE
18. Norms
-Laws-the proscriptive and prescriptive norms
written in a legal code.
Values and Beliefs
-values-the abstract standards in a community that
define the ideal principles of what is good, just and
desirable.
COMMUNITY CULTURAL STRUCTURE
19. -beliefs-refers to the shared ideas of what people in
a community hold collectively as true.
Rituals-established sacred or secular procedures
and ceremonies that people in the community
regularly perform.
COMMUNITY CULTURAL STRUCTURE
20. -Artifacts-any objects or things that have special
meaning for people in the community. They may even
serve as relics that can be considered sacred, lucky,
mystical, and culturally or historically significant.
COMMUNITY CULTURAL STRUCTURE
21. refers to the people's established ways of allocating
power and making decisions in running and managing
community affairs.
-Political Organizations
-Citizenship Norms
-Power Relations
-Leadership Structure
COMMUNITY POLITICAL STRUCTURE
22. pertains to various organized ways and means
through which the people in the community produce
goods and services, allocate limited resources, and
generate wealth in order to satisfy their needs and
wants.
COMMUNITY ECONOMIC STRUCTURE
23. Capital Assets - refer to a property or anything that
is owned and has an economic value, which is
exected to generate profit for a long period of time.
-Human Capital
-Social Capital
-Natural Capital
-Physical Capital
-Financial Capital
COMMUNITY ECONOMIC STRUCTURE
24. Vulnerability Context-pertains to the insecurity in
the well-being of individuals and households in the
community
Business Climate-refers to the attitudes, laws,
regulations, and policies of the government and
lending institutions toward businesses, enterprises,
and business activities.
COMMUNITY ECONOMIC STRUCTURE
25. Trade-pertains to small-, medium-, and even large-
scale enterprises and business activities involving the
sale and purchase of goods, services, and
information.
COMMUNITY ECONOMIC STRUCTURE
