Community

Engagement,
Solidarity, and
Citizenship (CSC)
Desiree Joy M.
Abenion
Subject Teacher
 Course
Description
This course focuses on the application of ideas and
methods of the social sciences to understand,
investigate, and examine challenges of
contemporary community life. It focuses on
community-action initiatives such as community
engagement, solidarity, and citizenship as guided by
the core values of human rights, social justice,
empowerment and advocacy, gender equality, and
participatory development. It aims at enhancing students’
sense of shared identity and willingness to contribute to
the pursuit of the common good of the community. It
enables students to integrate applied social sciences into
community-action initiatives.
Lesson 1

The
Community
We Live In
LET’S TRY!
Direction: Identify and remember different activities in your locality. In each box, name at
least 2 activities related to each structure.

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What is ?
Community was derived from the Latin word
“communis” which means common or shared.

Thus, the general understanding of the word

community is that, “COMMUNITY is a social unit
that is compose of people who have something in
common.”
Communities may be formed into two
1 Geographical ways;
- the members of the community share the
same geographical vicinity such as a village,
province or neighborhood

2 Non-Geographical
- community formed based on needs,
ideas, interests, identity, practices, and
roles in social institutions such as at
home, all work, in government, society, or
the community at large
Communities may also be divided into two
1 Micro Level levels; 2 Macro Level
- A group is formed based on personal - Large group affiliation is formed
ties. This may include groups formed for such as national communities,
pursuing common interests or goals like international communities, and
forming a small organization to hold a virtual communities. Companies and
fund-raising activity such corporations may develop various
as concerts. programs that would include
different members across the
country. They will work on meeting
certain objectives and expand on the
aspect of community involvement.
Mores, values, and identity is a commonality that form culture. Hence, the interest
of social sciences focused in the study of communities. The following are the
IMPORTANCE OF STUDYING COMMUNITY:

1. It motivates people to work together – people feel a sense of community

and recognize the benefits of their involvement.
2. It encourages social, religious, or traditional obligations for mutual help.
3. People see a genuine opportunity to better their own lives and for the
community.
4. It understands policies promoting community participation that values
social capital.
5. Community participation could be understood as the direct involvement
of citizenry in the affairs of planning, governance, and overall
development programs at local or grass root levels.
Understanding community life makes us
value the things we have on a daily basis,
social encounter constructs reality and
affects some changes within – this is
Community Dynamics.

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Lesson 2

Importance
of
Community
Action!
What is
action?
It is an activity that aims to increase the
understanding, engagement and empowerment of
communities for the intention of giving services to
people.
There are 3-key points in grasping the definition more
1 Understanding meaningful:
- raise an awareness about certain communal
issues that needs to be addressed. People
develop the feeling of involvement once they
truly comprehend the situation within. They
come together to support advocacies that will
overcome community needs and difficulties.
There are 3-key points in grasping the definition more
2 Engagement meaningful:
- Once issues are assessed properly and people in the community understand the
needs, they work collaboratively to act on it. The main goal of engaging in the
community is to improve the partnership and coalitions among the
community. It is important that engagement occurs so that members will be able to
involve meaningfully in the activities that they have
created.
There are 3-key points in grasping the definition more
3 Empowerment meaningful:
- Enable the people to independently decide, plan-
out and take action to control the situation they
have in the community. This means, initiative and
decisions come from internal group organized for
the benefit of everyone. It is also necessary that the
community can provide significant networks and
linkages that will genuinely serve the advocacies
that they have built.
Hence, the study of community action is imperative in the field of social
sciences and other related disciplines as it lays on the foundation that
individuals and families – as basic unit, are embedded in different social
structures that shape the behaviors in the system. Having knowledge in
community action makes an individual understand better by being
aware in the environment, have meaningful engagement and accept
empowerment to create significant impact.

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Thank
You