COMMUNITY

COMMUNITY

• Community is a place where one

lives, works, and plays.
• A community denotes a group
of people occupying a territory,
living together with families,
and the neighborhood
ELEMENTS OF
COMMUNITY
 PEOPLE

• The very basic

component of society
is the people.
• This group may be
small or large but
community always
refers to a group of
people.
• Without this
component,
community will not
exist.
 TERRITORY

• Pertains to a definite area

occupied by people. A group of
people forms a community only
when they reside in a definite
territory.
 INTERACTION
• It refers to the day to day encounter
with the other member of the
community.
• This emotional identification of the
members distinguishes them from
the members of other community.
COMMON VALUES
• Among the members
similarity in language,
culture, customs, and
traditions and in many
other things is
observed.
SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS
 FAMILY

• Family is the basic unit

of all institutions.
• Family is composed of
parents and children,
with out without
relatives, united by
bonds of love and
affection.
• Filipino family is often
described as big and it
provides all the basic
needs of its members.
• Nuclear family: A family unit consisting of at most a father,
mother and dependent children. It is considered the
“traditional” family.

• Extended family: A family consisting of parents and

children, along with either grandparents, grandchildren,
aunts or uncles, cousins etc. In some circumstances, the
extended family comes to live either with or in place of a
member of the nuclear family.

• Step families: Two families brought together due to

divorce, separation, and remarriage.
Single parent family: This can be either a father or a
mother who is singly responsible for the raising of a child.
The child can be by birth or adoption. They may be a
single parent by choice or by life circumstances. The
other parent may have been part of the family at one
time or not at all.

Adoptive family: A family where one or more of the

children has been adopted.
• Bi-racial or multi-racial family: A family where the parents
are members of different racial identity groups.

• Trans-racial adoptive family: A family where the adopted

child is of a different racial identity group than the parents.

• Conditionally separated families: A family member is

separated from the rest of the family. This may be due to
employment; military service; hospitalization. They remain
significant members of the family.
Foster family: A family where one or more of the children is
legally a temporary member of the household. This
“temporary” period may be as short as a few days or as long
as the child’s entire childhood.

Gay or Lesbian family: A family where one or both of the

parents’ sexual orientation is gay or lesbian. This may be a
two-parent family, an adoptive family, a single parent
family or an extended family.
The Filipinos practice endogamy: the custom of
marrying only within the limits of a local
community, clan, or tribe

Same Tribe Same Religion

 Religious
Institutions
• Religion is defined as
a unified system of
beliefs and practices
related to sacred
things to worship a
higher being
 ECONOMY

• The economy is the institution that provides for the

production and distribution of goods and services,
which people in every society need.
• When people rely on others for goods or services, they
must have something to exchange, such as currency (in
industrialized societies) or other goods or services (in
nonindustrialized societies).
 POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS

• Political institutions are organizations which create and

enforce laws.
• They often mediate conflict and make policies to
regulate the members of the society.
 Educational Institution

• Is a place where people of different ages

gain an education. Examples of some
institutions are preschools, primary
schools, secondary schools, and further
and higher education. They provide a
large variety of learning environments
and learning spaces.
 RURAL COMMUNITY

• Barrio is a community where

people earn their livelihood
through agriculture, fishing,
and home-based industries.
 URBAN
COMMUNITY
• An urban area is a
human settlement
with high population
density and
infrastructure of
built environment.
• Industrialization
that spells
improvement in the
quality of life.
 REFUTE OR EXPLAIN THE PERCEIVED
CHARACTERISTICS:

1. BADUY (OUT OF FASHION)

2. PRIMITIVE (TECHNOLOGICALLY INCOMPETENT)
3. MAHIYAIN (SHY)
4. VERY SUPERSTICIOUS
5. VERY CONSERVATIVE (LANGUAGE AND MANNERS)