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CESC Module 2

The document outlines the five essential functions of communities: production, socialization, social control, social participation, and mutual support, which are crucial for community survival and cohesion. It also discusses community structure, which encompasses the internal organization and relationships within urban areas, and community dynamics, referring to changes in structure and composition over time. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of individual contributions to the community, echoing John F. Kennedy's call for civic responsibility.

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CESC Module 2

The document outlines the five essential functions of communities: production, socialization, social control, social participation, and mutual support, which are crucial for community survival and cohesion. It also discusses community structure, which encompasses the internal organization and relationships within urban areas, and community dynamics, referring to changes in structure and composition over time. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of individual contributions to the community, echoing John F. Kennedy's call for civic responsibility.

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Community

Engagement, Solidarity
and Citizenship
Functions of Communities
in Terms of Structures,
Dynamics, and Processes
Community and its Five Functions

1. Production, Distribution, Consumption

The community provides its members with the means to make a living.
This may be agriculture, industry, or services. No community can survive
if it does not provide some way for its people to make a living and obtain
the material resources that they need for living. This involves, first of all,
the industrial sector (broadly understood). Someone has to take raw
material and fashion it into some sort of useful product. It is also the
transportation/warehousing/retail sector, since somehow the goods that
are produced have to be moved to and through the market. Finally,
production and distribution are useless if there is no one to buy or use it,
if there is no “market.”
2. Socialization
The community has means by which it instils its norms and
values in its members. This may be tradition, modelling, and/or
formal education. No community can survive if it does not
arrange for its continuation. A way must be found for children to
learn what they will need to know to be adults; for workers to
develop the knowledge, skills and abilities to do their jobs; for in-
migrants (whether they are from the neighboring State or from
across the ocean) to learn “how we do things here.”
3.Social Control

The community has the means to enforce adherence to


community values. This may be group pressure to to
conform and/or formal laws. Communities are incredibly
complex systems. For all those players (whether human
or corporate) are to move around and “do their thing,”
there have to be “traffic rules” to keep them from crashing
into each other.
This function is also often referred to as “boundary
maintenance.”
4. Social Participation
The community fulfils the need for
companionship. This may occur in a
neighbourhood, church, business, or other
group. In part, it is through participation that
much of those functions is accomplished.
5. MUTUAL SUPPORT

The community enables its members to cooperate to


accomplish tasks too large or too urgent to be handled by a
single person. Supporting a community hospital with tax dollars
and donations is an example of people cooperating to
accomplish the task of health care. Finally, one of the purposes
of community is to “share the journey,” and to motivate and
encourage each other along the way
Community structure means the
internal structure of an employment area,
town, city, neighbourhood or another
urban area. It includes the population and
housing, jobs and production, service and
leisure time areas, along with transport
routes and technical networks, their
location and relationships.
Community dynamics are the changes in community structure
and composition over time. Sometimes these changes are induced
by environmental disturbances such as volcanoes, earthquakes,
storms, fires, and climate change. Communities with a stable
structure are said to be at equilibrium.
ASK NOT WHAT YOUR COUNTRY
CAN DO FOR YOU,BUT ASK WHAT
YOU CAN DO TO YOUR COUNTRYT

_ JOHN F. KENNEDY_

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