COMMUNITY

• One of the sociology’s • A social group with a

oldest and most common territorial
enduring objects of the base.
study and research.
(Scientific point of view) (Sociological standpoint
of view)
COMMUNITY
• A social organization that is considered
fundamental to society such as, village or
religious sect. They are often regarded as natural
grouping based on ties of shared blood,
language, history, territory and culture.
(Aggarwal, 2006)

• Cluster of individuals lives make-up

communities, societies and cultures (Coles and
Knowles, 2001)

• Community is simply a group of people who

have something in common (Lee,1992)
• For the Greeks, it means “fellowship” that is, a
group of people who come together for mutual
support and to fulfill their basic needs.

• Boothroyd (1990) sees community as “human

system of more than two people who come
together for mutual support and fulfill their basic
needs.

• It is a “collection of people who have become

aware of some problem or some broad goal, who
have gone through a process of learning about
themselves and their environment, and have
formulated a group objective “ (Roberts, 1979)
• The word community is used to describe an
organization or institution such as workplace, a
school or college/university to imply a common
spatial bond.

• Sometimes the term community to talk about

people who have shared a common
characteristic such as religion or language.
THE FOUR (4) TRADITIONS
OF COMMUNITY
FIRST TRADITION
• The Complete Community, collectivities based in
size from villages to metropolises are analyzes
holistically. We observe the functional relations
between the parts of the community and the
community as a whole.

For example, we observe how those living in Las

Pinas City relate among themselves and to other
people living in Metro Manila.

• This theory upholds that the entity can be analyzed

only as whole with its distinctive properties.
SECOND TRADITION
• The Community of Limited Liability focuses on
neighborhoods and similar areas of larger
communities; it considers the sentiments and
motivations of people living in the
neighborhood. This tradition recognizes the
tendency for human beings to form communities
within communities

For example, “Tagalog Community”, “Ilocano

Community” “Bicolano Community”
THIRD TRADITION
• Community as Society, it examines various groups
for whom prestige or moral worth or both are in
some way important. The prominence of the
dimension of the prestige has led some social
scientist to analyze these communities as status
communities.

For example, among medical doctors, some of them

are members of different societies for example,
Philippine Society of Endocrinology and Metabolism,
Philippine Society of Pediatric Cadiology, etc.
FOURTH TRADITION
• The Personal Community Tradition. A
geographic location is more apparent in the
personal community than in the community as a
society. The basis here is one of the shared
personal interests in which prestige or moral
worth, if an issue at all, is of minor importance.

For example, Knights of Columbus, Camera Club

of the Philippines, Batangas Mountaineering
Society
 ASSIGNMENT
Make a write-up of about 300 words each on the
following “religious communities “ in the Philippines.
To be submitted on Monday. Choose one (1).

1. The Kingdom of Jesus Christ – The Name Above

Every Name (Pastor Apollo C. Quiboloy)

2. Philippine Benevolent Missionaries Association,

Inc. (PBMA, Divine Master Ruben E. Ecleo, Sr.)

3. Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer

(Redemptorists, CSsR)
4. Order of St. Benedict (Benedictines, OSB)

5. Society of Jesus (Jesuits, SJ)

4. Augustinian Recollect Sisters (AR)

5. Religious of the Virgin Mary (RVM)

6. Daughter of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul (DC)