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CESC - Lesson 3 Functions of Community
CESC - Lesson 3 Functions of Community
FUNCTIONS
OF
COMMUNITY
The Elements of a Community:
Nature and Power Structure
It is thus important to
recognize the characteristics
and features of a community to
understand why it acts and
reacts in a certain way.
The Nature of a Community
Nature Description
A community can be
considered like an organism
because it can function even
people come and go.
The Structure of a Community
Influence through
Coercion manipulation and
coercion.
The Dimensions of a Community
A community is a complex
system with different
dimensions.
These dimensions may be
present in all communities, but
they may vary in size, degree,
and complexity.
The Dimensions of a Community
This characteristic of a
community may be attributed
to the combination of the
communities’ human resource,
natural resource, culture,
structure, and other factors.
The Dimensions of a Community
It is the community
capital - its tools, skills,
and ways of dealing
with the physical
Technological
environment.
It is the interface
between humanity and
nature.
Dimensions Description
It is the community’s
various ways and
means of production
and allocation of scarce
Economic
and useful goods and
services through barter,
market trade, state
allocations, and others.
Dimensions Description
This dimension is
sometimes thought to be
the religion of the people.
Beliefs- It is however a wider
Conceptual category, and it includes
atheistic beliefs, such as
how man created God in
his own image.
The Dimensions of a Community
Second Group
(Those Applies the term to ideas of
Working in belonging and difference
Cultural around issues such as
Studies and
identity.
Anthropology)
The Four Approaches in Applying
the term Community
Approaches of each group in
Groups
applying the term community