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understanding community

  • Communities - could either be referred to as a territorial, a network of interrelationships within a common interest, or as a shared spiritual/emotional connectedness.

  • Communities - are social constructs

         1. Community  as a shared political territory and heritage - a traditional understanding of community ^^refers to a group of people  living in the same geographical area^^

  • INSTITUTIONS:

    • Educational
    • Military
    • Government
    • Health Care

GRASSROOTS:

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    • Enclaves (sitio)
    • Villages
    • Barangays

    1. Community as a network of interpersonal ties based on a common interest - these ties, as it turns, ^^provide mutual support, a sense of identity, and a sense of belongingness^^ for the members

          3.  Community as a profound sharing of spiritual and/ or emotional connection - This understanding of community ^^pertains to a sense of spiritual and/or emotional connection to others^^, or communication with others on the basis of an experience of a *common problem* (e. g., being afflicted with cancer or any form of terminal illness), *bond* (e.g., experiencing life after death), or a *situated cognition* (e.g., having realizations that individual actions are inevitably linked to others, which evoke meaningful attachments) (Wilmott 1989, Sunduram et al. 2012).

Sense of Community - “a ^^feeling that members have of belonging, a feeling that members matter to one another and to the group,^^ and a shared faith that members’ needs will be met through their commitment to be together.”

4 Elements of the Sense of Community

  1. Membership - refers to the feeling of ^^belonging or sharing a sense of personal relatedness.^^
  • Boundaries - allowing others to ^^belong and keeping others out^^
  • Emotional safety - feelings of ^^security and trust^^ in revealing how one really feels
  • Sense of belonging and identification - members’ feeling ^^that they belong, fit in, and are accepted by the community^^
  • Personal Investment - ^^sacrifices made to maintain membership^^
  • Common symbol system - ^^things used to represent the community^^
  1. Influence - refers to the ^^sense of having importance or of feeling valued^^
  2. Integration and fulfillment of needs - refers to the ^^feeling of fulfillment, which stems from the personal investments^^ that members make in maintaining community membership or in participating in community activities and affairs.
  3. Shared emotional connection - refers to a ^^sense of shared cultural and historical heritage^^ and the feeling that common experiences will continue to be shared
    • Contact hypothesis - members of the community ^^become close when there are lots of opportunities for interaction^^
    • Quality of interaction - when ^^interaction brings about positive experiences^^ and good relationships, it would then fosters a great bond
    • Closure to events - when ^^iterations are ambiguous and community tasks are unresolved^^, then community cohesion will be inhibited
    • Shared event hypothesis - increased importance of shared event ^^results into greater community bond^^
    • Investment - the community becomes ^^important to someone who has given time, energy, money, effort, and^^ ^^emotional openness^^ to other members of the community
    • Effect of honor and humiliation to community members - members who have been ^^publicly rewarded or recognized by the community^^ will be more attracted to that community, similarly, members who have been publicly humiliated
    • Spiritual bond - the ^^spark of friendship where members are able to be with other members in the community^^ in order to have a setting and audience to express unique aspects of one’s personality and see oneself mirrored in the eyes and responses of others