DCC REGISTERED

QMS-DCC-FORM16
Week1
Learning Competencies
1. explain the importance of
studying community dynamics and
community action in relation to
applied social sciences and the
learners’ future career options
 Lesson1
• Think about this; Take time and look at the photo above.
Is the common façade familiar to you? Have you ever
wandered around your own community? Have you ever
thought deeply and realized what is really happening?
The study of community entails us to
understand our very own community life.
It gives us the idea on how to perceive reality by
becoming involve in the day to day process
which is socialization.
In the interaction process, people grasp the
challenges of the contemporary community life.
Hi! in this lesson, we are guided by the
following specific objectives:
1. Cite the importance of community dynamic.
2. Share significant community-based activities
describing the community life.
3. Identify the importance of studying the
community action.
4. Express ideas about the importance of
studying community action.
The following are some words that shall be
used in this discussion. Read and understand
the words carefully.
The following are some words that shall be
used in this discussion. Read and understand
the words carefully.
The following are some words that shall be
used in this discussion. Read and understand
the words carefully.
The following are some words that shall be
used in this discussion. Read and understand
the words carefully.
The following are some words that shall be
used in this discussion. Read and understand
the words carefully.
The following are some words that shall be
used in this discussion. Read and understand
the words carefully.
The following are some words that shall be
used in this discussion. Read and understand
the words carefully.
LEARNING ACTIVITIES:

Lesson 1: The Community We Live In!

• What is Community and Why is there a Need in Studying this?
• 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”.
• 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.
• Communication and relationships are imperative in
building community. As people communicate and interact,
relationships foster. It develops pattern by which adopted
in the environment.
• 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
• 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.
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 grassroot 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.
Have you noticed some recent changes in your
community?
• 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.
Can you remember different activities in your
community? Do these activities have changed
overtime? Post a picture in different structures that
showed changes.
Reflect;
• 1. As social science student, do you think it is necessary
to study community? Why do you think so?
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• 2. Can the dynamics in the community affect the lives
of the people? If yes, why? How? If not, why not?
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 Lesson 2: Importance of Community
Action!
• Amid the corona virus scare in the whole country,
there have been various organizations who have
continuously given their efforts to at least lessen
the impact in education. One of which is ERDA
Foundation Inc., a non-governmental and non-
profit organization which has been in service for
not less than 45 years dedicated to helping the
poor but deserving Filipino children have access
to education. Read and study the short text
below.
 Let’s ponder on and write:
• 1. Can the community facilitate action for their
own community? What is your idea about this?
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________________________________________
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2. Is it possible that we consider individuals in the
community as social capital? Why? Why not?
__________________________________________
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What is Community Action?
• Community Action- is any 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
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
• 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 important that engagement occurs
so that members will be able to involve
meaningfully in the activities that they have
created.
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.
• 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.
 PRACTICE TASK 2
• Picto-Analysis: Examine the photo below and
read the corresponding texts. Analyze the
current situation and express your ideas on
how to understand, engage and empower your
own community amidst the challenges.
Cavite under the state of calamity due
to corona virus outbreak
• MANILA, Philippines — The province of Cavite
has been placed under state of calamity amid
the growing number of 2019 coronavirus
disease (COVID-19) cases in the country.
• Cavite Vice Governor announced this on his
official Facebook page on Monday, adding that
the provincial council passed Resolution No.
1437-2020, declaring the province under a
state of calamity.
Continuation;
• “The Province of Cavite is now under State of Calamity due to
COVID-19 outbreak. Please stay at home and follow government
guidelines for your safety,” he wrote.

• On Sunday, Cavite Governor Jonvic Remulla announced the

province’s second case of COVID-19, a medical practitioner who got
infected through community transmission.

• Read more: https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1243012/cavite-under-

state-of-calamity-due-to-coronavirus-outbreak#ixzz7f3wPsZVt
• Follow us: @inquirerdotnet on Twitter | inquirerdotnet on
Facebook
Understand _________________________________
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Engage _________________________________
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Empower _________________________________
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PRACTICE TASK 3;
• “Individuals and families – as basic unit, are embedded in different social
structures that shape the behaviors in the system.”
• 1. Make a short essay and ponder on the statement above. Do you agree
that individuals and families shape the behavior in the social system?
Why? Why not?
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2. Is it necessary to study community action along the field in social science?
Why? _________________________________________________________
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Post Test;
Modified TRUE or FALSE: Examine the underlined word from the given
statements below. Write T if the statement is True and F if the
statement is False. If false, write the correct word or words to make the
statement correct.
• ________________ 1. One of the importance in studying the
community is that the people see an opportunity to understand the
policies within and values cultural capital.
• ________________ 2. The interaction taking place in the community
is community dynamics itself. ________________ 3. Changes in the
community can be brought about by social, cultural and historical
experiences.
• ________________ 4. Geographical communities are formed based
on needs, ideas, interests and identity, practices and roles in social
institutions. ________________
• 5. Macro-level perspectives are focused on pursuing common
interests or goals like forming a small organization to hold an
advocacy. ________________
• 6. Empowerment is to raise awareness about certain
communal issues that needs to be addressed.
________________
• 7. Community Action is any activity that aims to
increase the understanding, involvement and
empowerment of communities for the intention of
giving services to people. ________________
• 8. It is important to identify the different needs of the
community that should be addressed.
________________ 9. People in a community share
something in common.
• ________________ 10. It is important that
engagement occurs so that members will be able to
involve meaningfully in the activities that they have
created.
Assignment No.1
• Awareness on community and community
dynamics makes us realize the value of
individuals’ involvement in different communal
undertakings. Social capital strengthens the
community link and create a diverse network. It
entails us to understand external resources that
may be beneficial in the development process
aspired by the community leaders.
• Research about non-governmental, non-profit
organizations and write their vision, mission,
goals and objectives focused on community
development and community dynamics. Identify
their plan of action in order to attain the VMGOs.