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- 2. COMMUNITY Community is a social group of any size whose members reside in a specific locality, share government, and often have a common cultural and historical heritage. Community is all the people living in an area or a group or groups of people who share common interests. Community is a locality inhabited by such a group. Community is a social, religious, occupational, or other group sharing common characteristics or interests and perceived or perceiving itself as distinct in some respect from the larger society within which it exists. Community is a group of people living in the same place or having particular characteristics in common.
- 3. Individuals having significant interaction within a specified area becomes one of the contributory factors in forming community. The word community was derived from the Latin word communis which means common or shared.
- 4. It may share a certain sense of place whether it is geographical area or through a virtual space. Geographical community is a community where members share the same geographical vicinity such as a village, province or neighborhood. Non- geographical community is a 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.
- 5. Communities may also be in two levels: Micro-level community, a group is formed based on personal ties. This may include groups formed for pursuing common interests or goals like forming a small organization to hold a fund-raising activity such as concerts. At macro-level, large group affiliation is formed such as national communities, international communities, and virtual communities. Companies and corporations may develop various programs that would include different members across the country. They will work on meeting certain objectives and expand on the aspect of community involvement.
- 6. Role of the Community The role of the community includes the following: community consultation, joint planning, joint design, joint delivery and community-led activities.
- 7. 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.6 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 grassroot levels.
- 8. COMMUNITY ACTION Community action is any activity that increases the understanding, engagement and empowerment of communities in the design and delivery of local services. Community action includes a broad range of activities and is sometimes described as social action' or community engagement'. These activities can vary in their objective, the role the community plays, the types of activities involved, their scale and their integration within the council. What they have in common is that they all involve greater engagement of local citizens in the planning, design and delivery of local services.
- 9. There are 3-key points in grasping the definition more meaningful: Understanding 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.
- 10. There are 3-key points in grasping the definition more meaningful: Engagement 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.
- 11. There are 3-key points in grasping the definition more meaningful: Empowerment 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.
- 12. Purposes of Community Action 1. To help and encourage the children and the youth. 2. To help and support the marginalized sector. 3. To invigorate and honor the elderly. 4. To strengthen the community, as a whole.
- 13. Importance of Community Action Accordingly, community action poses importance to the dynamism of the people. Community action is implemented not just out of the whims of the leaders or just for a show, rather, it is undergone for a cause. Because of this ,the significance of a community action could be broken down into the following:
- 14. 1. Community action is about putting communities at the heart of their own local services. This means that the people in the community are motivated in making the communitys objectives and needs as their focus and they themselves will be the ones taking charge of the services to satisfy such. The community members are the participants to any community action initiative and whatever and however they are capacitated, they themselves will be the ones who shall deliver the identified service and gain from it.
- 15. 2. Building community and social capacity. This presupposes that community action activities would help develop skills which would capacitate the people for any endeavor while they would be intimated with the needed knowledge and ideas. The skills which the people would be capacitated with shall have a long range effect, meaning, the people could use such skill in engaging in business, or to earn an income or to capacitate other people. This way, the people become active participants to the community-building. As mentioned earlier, it is not capacitating the people for just a day or a week, but could even be for a lifetime.
- 16. 3. Community resilience. This means that the community could become self-sustaining with the skills and knowledge they are capacitated with. For instance, the women sector are made to undergo trainings like basket-weaving or the male sector are given a training on handicrafts production using local materials, then the community is able to support itself economically. When the community becomes a self-sustaining entity, then the community as a whole shall be able to withstand whatever problems, difficulties and issues that will get in their way.
- 17. COMMUNITY DYNAMICS The changes in the community are brought about by social, cultural and environmental experiences whether it is positive or negative development that impacts within the community. People adopt the changes and it has shaped their way of life.
- 18. According to Oxford Languages and Google, dynamics refer to the forces or properties which stimulate growth, development, or change within a system process. Basing from this definition, we could deduce that the word dynamics entails vigor, energy, stamina, strength enthusiasm, and any other positive stimulus within the person and beyond him, so as to bring about growth and development or any welcome change in the person.
- 19. Community dynamics then would refer to a process of change in the midst of the people in the community, powered by the unequalled vigor and enthusiasm of the same people. Further, there shall exist community dynamics when the people are capacitated as well.
- 20. For a more thorough understanding of what community dynamics is, let us take a look at the indicators of its significance, which is summarized as follows: 1. Community dynamics allows the members of the community to think creatively and act strategically towards the achievement of community-set goals. 2. With community dynamics at hand, the quality of living of the more vulnerable sectors of the community is alleviated. 3. Community dynamics allows the people to develop a good insight of how and what they feel about the place they live in.
- 21. Community Dynamics and Applied Social Sciences In all three areas, the practitioner needs to have a background about the personality that makes up a community she is bound to work for and work with. Because if one has not experienced being immersed with a certain community previously, she would not be in the know on how to deal with the energy, stamina and enthusiasm of your clientele. Having a feel of community dynamism would capacitate say for instance a social worker to effectively and efficiently dispense of her job in the field dealing with the marginalized sector as her clientele, or a police officer in dealing with offenders or a teacher dealing not only with her students but with the stakeholders as well.
- 22. Community Action and Applied Social Sciences Most of the community action programs designed and implemented are related to the tasks of Social Workers, Communication practitioners or Teachers or Counsellors and the like. Examples of which are Reading Program for the Children and the Youth, Leadership Training and a lot more. It goes without saying then that community action and Applied Social Sciences work together and would provide the appropriate training for the would-be-graduates of college programs aligned with Applied Social Sciences.
- 23. Career Choices and Community Dynamics and Community Action As per observation, most graduates of the Humanities and Social Sciences strand, venture into college programs like Psychology, Education, Criminology, Communication Arts and Bachelor of Arts courses. And if you look deeper into the nature of work one has to engage with after graduation, you are right, the job calls for some skills and knowledge of community dynamics and community action. For instance, as cited earlier, as an Education graduate one would not only be charged with teaching the learners but to become the guidance counsellor giving advices to the students and even the parents or go for home visitations maybe bringing with her some provisions for the concerned student.