URBAN AND RURAL

COMMUNITIES
Almodovar, Marco
Sia, Aaron Joseph A.
BSAT-4A

Rural Community

By: Almodovar, Marco

RURAL AREA
Rural areas are separately setteled places away
from the influence of large cities and towns.
Such areas are distinct from more intensively
settled urban and sub-urban areas, and also from
unsettled lands or wilderness, such as forest.

Rural Community
a group of people with a common characteristic
or interest living together in a village.

Characteristics of Rural Community

a. Size of the community: the village communities are
smaller in area than urban communities.
b. Density of population: low
c. Agriculture is the main occupation
d. Close contact with nature
e. Homogeneity of population: village communities are
homogenous in nature.

f. Social stratification: traditional characteristic based on

caste.
g. Social interaction: comparatively lower than in urban
areas.
h. Social mobilty: mobility is rigid as all the occupations
are based on caste.
i. Social solidarity

Life of Rural People

 Lifestyles in rural areas are different than

those in urban areas, mainly because limited
services are available.
Governmental Services
Utilities
Public Transport

Rural Development

 Rural development is a strategy designed to

improve the economic and social life of rural
poor.
It is a process which aims at improving the well
being and self realization of people living
outside the urbanized areas through collective
process.

Main Objective of Rural Development

Importance of Rural Development

Rural development is a dynamic process,
which is mainly concerned with rural areas.
It is a national necessity and has
considerable importance.

URBAN COMMUNITY
By Sia, Aaron Joseph

COMMUNITY
Is a social organization that is territorially
localized and through which its members satisfy
most of their daily needs and deal with most of
their common problems. (Olsen, 1968)

What is Urban?
Means living in the city or related to cities.
Is a big city or town.
Pertaining to a large city. It might be defined as an area
with a large amount of people residing in it, an area that
has been significantly developed, or an area where the
distance between buildings is very small.

URBANIZATION
It is the process of concentrating people
within a relatively small geographic and
related to social change and growth.

Urbanization in the Philippines

Factors of Urbanization (Bautista, 1998):
1.The attractiveness of urban life strengthened stream of migration
from the rural areas.
2.The existence of social networks in the migrant destination.
3.Natural increase.

Characteristics of Urban Community

1. Size much larger than rural community.
2. Density of population greater then in rural communities.
3. Marriage freedom in choosing their life partners.
4. Occupation divisions of labour and occupational specialization
are very much common in towns/cities/metropolises.

5. Individualism they hesitate to think or act for the good of

others.

6. Materialism the worth of an urbanite today is being judged not

by what he is but by what he has.

SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVE

FUNCTIONALISM

MAJOR ASSUMPTIONS

Cities serve many important functions

for society but also have their
dysfunctions. Functionalist theorists
differ on the relative merits and
disadvantages of urban life, and in
particular on the degree to which a
sense of community and social bonding
exists.

CONFLICT THEORY
Cities are run by political and economic elites that
use their resources to enrich positions and to take
resources from the poor and people of color. The
diversity of social backgrounds found in cities
contributes to conflict over norms and values.

SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM

City residents differ in their types of interaction

and perceptions of urban life. Cities are not
chaotic places but rather locations in which
strong norma and values exist.