rural community
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Llanes, Jenina Rosa P.
Quirante, Dan Mariz
GE-2107
July 5, 2013
Ms. Segunda L. Casanova
Instructor
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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 communities’are those built ontradition , shared values and ideas, and common
culture.
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Classification of Community
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Rural Community is usually
associated with the barrio.
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They earn their livelihood through:
AGRICULTURE FISHING
HOME-BASED OR COTTAGE INDUSTRIES
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The National Census and Statistics
Office (NCSO) defines rural areas as all
barrios and municipalities except those ofthe provincial capital.
The NCSO indicated a numerical
delimitation. Barrios are communities witha population of not more than ONE
THOUSAND.
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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 oneanother.
• There is the presence of dominant activity.
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Philippine Rural Community
• Philippines is composed of
– 17 administrative regions
– 80 provinces – 138 cities
– 1,496 municipalities
– 42,025 barangays
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Philippine Rural Community
• The total rural population is estimated to
be higher than the total urban population.
• The Philippines is predominantly ruralor a land of barrios.
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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.
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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.
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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, doneedlework, or embroidery, read literature and
magazines
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Rural Community
• Communication media consist of
newspapers which are scanty.
• A rural area usually has dirt and feeder roads
covered with gravel and sand.
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RURAL AREA
• Most barrio folks also have goals and aspirations
centering on:
– Education
– Land – Jobs
– Animals
– Crops
– Tools
– Peace