Functions of Communities in Terms of Structures, Dynamics, and Processes

Community Engagement Solidarity and Citizenship

1. Functions of communities in terms of structures, dynamics, and processes Juvie ann p. gabrieles

2. Reflect: Why do the government need to step up law enforcement during the covid19 pandemic?

3. STRUCTURES OF A COMMUNITY It includes first and foremost, the family being the foundation of every community. Of all the structures of the community, the family has the biggest contribution to the character building of the population. The individual member undergo a process of character building based on a common cultural views and practices by the family.

4. Social institutions Established patterns of beliefs and behavior.

5. Social groups Two or more people in the community

6. status The position or rank of a person

7. role The obligations or behavior expected from an individual on the basis of one’s status.

8. Cultural Structure

9. culture For Edward Burnett Tylor, culture is “a complex whole which includes knowledge beliefs, law, art, morals, customs and other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of a society” (britannica.com, 2010).

10. The culture system will serve as a unifying factor toward creating a dynamic, orderly and progressive community.

11. economic Structure

12. Part of the economic structure is the system on equal distribution of resources including the multitude of benefits that can be derived from them. Economic structure maintains a set of rules to regulate and protect the interest of everyone in the community from the consumer to the producers and distributors of goods and services.

13. The economic structures consist of the rules and practices that govern fair distribution and utilization of resources. The people that produce and facilitate the distribution of products and services. And of course the people who consumes the products and services ensuring healthy interactions between the economic structure and the other three.

14. political Structure

15. Political structure is basic to the community in upholding and preserving order. This kind of structure is indispensable even in the family where order is important to keep it stable.

16. It sets the limitations for each person’s freedom and rights over matters that include property ownership, privacy, inheritance and use of public domains among others.

17. DYNAMICS AND PROCESSES

18. Community dynamics and processes work to push the community towards achieving stability. However, it will still depend on how the structures within the system will react to the changes that were triggered by the pandemic.

19. Power Power in the context of community dynamics, pertains to the ability to influence peoples’ behaviour and institutional views affecting the community processes. In the absence of power institutions will not be able to perform their functions, thus the community will be in disarray.

20. Leadership Leadership is the process of directing or guiding a group towards certain goals. Leadership is manifested in different ways depending on the orientation and personal belief of the leader or the consensus of the group.

21. Social Roles Social roles are defined by the cultural views and goals of the community. Such orientation may be following a socio-cultural, economic or political end. Social roles are constantly evolving in a dynamic social system.

22. SOCIAL PROCESS Social processes refer to forms of social interaction that occur repeatedly (yourarticlelibrary.com). People interact in different ways and for different purposes. Interactions are influenced or directed by a set of rules entrenched in the culture system and politico-legal doctrines of a particular society.