rural community

8/12/2019 Rural Community

http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/rural-community 1/16

Llanes, Jenina Rosa P.

Quirante, Dan Mariz

GE-2107

July 5, 2013

Ms. Segunda L. Casanova

Instructor



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.



Classification of Community



Rural Community is usually

associated with the barrio.



They earn their livelihood through:

AGRICULTURE FISHING

HOME-BASED OR COTTAGE INDUSTRIES



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.



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.



Philippine Rural Community

• Philippines is composed of

– 17 administrative regions

– 80 provinces – 138 cities

– 1,496 municipalities

– 42,025 barangays



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.



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.



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.



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



Rural Community

• Communication media consist of

newspapers which are scanty.

• A rural area usually has dirt and feeder roads

covered with gravel and sand.



RURAL AREA

• Most barrio folks also have goals and aspirations

centering on:

– Education

– Land – Jobs

– Animals

– Crops

– Tools

– Peace

rural community

Documents