Community Organizing

Question 1

______-defined as an organization of families and individuals, settled in a fairly compact and continuous geographical area, with significant element of common life

Answer 1

Community

Question 2

Community Characteristics

a. Common set of ______
These are defined as a concept that has various shades of meaning. It hints what ought to be or at those which relate the ultimate ends, goals and purposes of social action

Answer 2

Values

Question 3

Community Characteristics

b. Normatively defined relation
_____ are defined as the accepted ways of behaving that govern a group life in all societies and at all times. These are “rules or standards of behavior shared by members of a social group and ideal patterns of behavior that most members of society consider to be correct and proper in particular situations

Answer 3

Norms

Question 4

Community Characteristics

c. ___________
-Needing and depending upon each other. An important new level of understanding emerges from examining the prefix “inter” which refers to that which exists “between and among” discrete entities.

Answer 4

Interdependence

Question 5

Community Characteristics

d. ________
-Everybody wants to feel that he or she is liked and accepted by
others. We get our greatest joys through association with others
who make us feel that we have unity.

Answer 5

Recognition of belongings

Question 6

Community Characteristics

e. _______
-is the way in which a large group of people living together is divided into classes. It is this system that make people differ from each other by the place that they occupy in a historically determined system of social production, by their relation to the means of production, role in social organization, dimensions of the shared social wealth

Answer 6

System of stratification

Question 7

Community Characteristics

f. _______
-area occupied by closely-knit varies according to the term of reference used.

Answer 7

Locality

Question 8

It is a development strategy for building people’s capabilities towards self-determinants and self-reliance.

Answer 8

Community Organizing

Question 9

3 Major component of Community Organizing

Answer 9

1. Training and education
2. Organization building
3. Mobilization

Question 10

Tasks and Functions of a Community Organizer

1. As a _________

-enhance individual and group strengths and minimizes weakness and conflicts
-Heightens group unity
-Assist individuals and groups to respond to common interests

Answer 10

facilitator

Question 11

Tasks and Functions of a Community Organizer

2. As a ________
   -assess training needs
   -plans and conducts educational program to enhance capabilities
   -assists leaders in training others
   -Engages in praxis (action reflection-action) through continuous dialogue with people

Answer 11

Trainer

Question 12

Tasks and Functions of a Community Organizer

3. As an ________
   -analyses and articulate critical issues
   -assists others to reflect upon other issues
   -Evokes and provokes meaningful discussions

Answer 12

advocate

Question 13

Tasks and Functions of a Community Organizer

4. As a ________
   -Conducts social analysis
   -Engages in participatory technology development

Answer 13

researcher

Question 14

Tasks and Functions of a Community Organizer

5. As a ________
   -Conducts analysis of area resources and potentials
   -Assist local groups in planning for their common good
   -Systematizes group actions

Answer 14

planner

Question 15

Tasks and Functions of a Community Organizer

6. As a ________
   -Initial debates and actions regarding critical problems
   -Monitors and nurtures growth of individuals and groups

Answer 15

catalyst

Question 16

Tasks and Functions of a Community Organizer (6)

Answer 16

1. As a facilitator
2. As a Trainer
3. As an advocate
4. As a researcher
5. As a planner
6. As a catalyst

Question 17

Community Organization: Values, Goals and Principles

I. Values of Community Organization (3)

Answer 17

1. Human Rights
2. Social Justice
3. Social Responsibility

Question 18

II. Goals of Community Organizing
1. _______
-aims at achieving effective power for the people.
-people learn to overcome powerlessness and develop their
capacity to maximize control over their situation and start to place the future in their own hands

Answer 18

Peoples’ Empowerment

Question 19

II. Goals of Community Organizing
2. Building Relative Permanent _____
-establish and sustain relatively permanent organizational
structures which best serve the needs and aspirations of the
people

Answer 19

Structures

Question 20

II. Goals of Community Organizing
3. _________
-seeks to create a conducive environment for the development of human creativity and solidarity

Answer 20

Building Alliances

Question 21

II. Goals of Community Organizing
4. __________
-regard themselves as financially developed or stable, satisfied and happy with their living conditions, healthy relationships with organizations and people, as well as sustainable environments
for health and well-being

Answer 21

Improved quality of life/ standard of living

Question 22

II. Goals of Community Organizing
5. _______
-freedom felt by the whole population and community at large (elections, opinion-sharing, organizations)

Answer 22

Popular Democracy

Question 23

II. Goals of Community Organizing
6. __________
-nationally aligned positive development of a society which regards the importance of values and morals, use of science and technology, spirituality and peace and order

Answer 23

National Social Transformation

Question 24

III. Principles of Community Organizing (4)

Answer 24

1. Peoples’ Participation
2. Self-Determination
3. Experiential Learning
4. Self-reliance

Question 25

IV. Organizing Approaches
1. _________ Approach
-revolves around issues or problems
2. ________ approach
-Healthcare, Income Generating Projects, Enterprise development, cooperative
3. __________ approach
-organized by church

Answer 25

Issue-based
Socio-economic based
Church-Faith-based