FUNCTIONS OF COMMUNITY

1. It includes, but is not limited to, types of governments and management systems. It also includes how people in small bands or informal groups make decisions when they do not have a recognized leader.

• Technological

• Economic

• Political

• Institutional

It is the community’s various ways and means of production and allocation of scarce and useful goods and services through barter, market trade, state allocations and others.

• Technological

  
  

• Economic

• Political

• Institutional

It is the community capital tools and skills, and ways of dealing with the physical environment.

• Technological

• Economic

• Political

• Institutional

Understanding the different dimension of community is a prerequisite to the of community mapping and analysis.

• Nature

• Process

• Structure

• Culture

5. In a community, change agents put premium in understanding power structure.

• Community agents

• Residents

• Brgy. Health workers

• Bystanders

Where technology is not based on local horticulture, the community residents may be physically mobile.

• Community as a sociological construct

• A community has fuzzy boundaries

• Communities can be within communities

• Communities may move

There may be communities within larger communities, including districts, regions, ethnic groups, nations, and other boundaries.

• Community as a sociological construct

• A community has fuzzy boundaries

• Communities can be within communities

• Communities may move

The dynamics of a community is determined by its nature and and how it reacts with external and internal forces.

• Structure

• Elements

• Culture

• Characteristics

When an identified community is a little village, separated by a few kilometers from other villages, in a rural area, its boundaries appear at first to be very simple.

• Community as a sociological construct

• A community has fuzzy boundaries

• Communities can be within communities

• Communities may move

To understand how a community operates, and how it changes, it is necessary to learn a little bit about sociology the science.

• Community as a sociological construct

• A community has fuzzy boundaries

• Communities can be within communities

• Communities may move