Llanes, Jenina Rosa P.

Quirante, Dan Mariz GE-2107 July 5, 2013

Ms. Segunda L. Casanova Instructor

A Community is a product of experience, interaction and identity: bonds are created between individuals over time, extending beyond family networks to embrace co-workers, neighbours and other social acquaintances. It is a place of common bonds, and of interaction, and traditional communitiesare those built on tradition, shared values and ideas, and common culture.

Classification of Community

Rural

Community

is

usually

associated with the

barrio.

They earn their livelihood through:

AGRICULTURE

FISHING

HOME-BASED OR COTTAGE INDUSTRIES

The National Census and Statistics Office (NCSO) defines rural areas as all barrios and municipalities except those of the provincial capital. The NCSO indicated a numerical delimitation. Barrios are communities with a population of not more than ONE

THOUSAND.

Characteristics of Rural Community

It is relatively small. People are homogenous biologically, socially and culturally. It has a high degree of self sufficiency, group identity and group unity. People have mutual relationships with one another. There is the presence of dominant activity.

Philippine Rural Community

Philippines is composed of
17 administrative regions 80 provinces 138 cities 1,496 municipalities 42,025 barangays

Philippine Rural Community

The total rural population is estimated to be higher than the total urban population. The Philippines is predominantly rural or a land of barrios.

BARRIO
It is composed of simple folks, and is characterized by primary group relations and gemeinshaft interactions. There also exists inter-group or inter-familial rivalry and factionalism. The unifying force in the barrio is maintained by attitudes, personality traits, and group consciousness and is translated into cooperative action.

RURAL COMMUNITY
Rural people have closer communion and steadier contact with the soil and other forces of nature. Their existence comes from their closeness to nature, whose vicissitudes like typhoons, drought or plagues they have to confront. These destructive forces of nature make them more religious.

Rural Community
Recreational facilities and cultural facilities are limited. Usual leisure activities: tuba or beer and gambling Young men playing basketball, drinking Women and girls visit neighbors, do needlework, or embroidery, read literature and magazines

Rural Community
Communication media consist of newspapers which are scanty. A rural area usually has dirt and feeder roads covered with gravel and sand.

RURAL AREA
Most barrio folks also have goals and aspirations centering on:
Education Land Jobs Animals Crops Tools Peace