Revisions and researches of the concept of Community Sense (SC) have historically worked from a description centered and analyzed from the individual in function of questionnaires and interviews that analyze mainly individual responses. The SC phenomenon has been observed from theoretical individualistic positions, establishing a psychometry of the emotions and feelings that people express, live or experience about the community in countries of the Northern Hemisphere. Macmillian and Chavis' proposal still has an unstable structure, requiring new contributions for a deeper understanding of the phenomenon in poverty situations in countries of the Global South. Thus, this symposium aims at deconstructing the concept of the sense of community from Latin America. Firstly, Rodrigo Cabrera del Valle, University of Valparaiso, Chile, will generate reflection and debate on the ontological elements of the concept as an opportunity to generate discussion and reflection. Thus, it is understood that communality can be central to human development, but will this be linked in all social contexts? Nelly Ayala Rodrígues from the Catholic University of Colombia presents the design and development of a digital tool as a strategy to support the pedagogical work of community psychology teachers, community managers and social facilitators, on the subject of community sense, who work with groups in a condition of psychosocial vulnerability. So, which innovative strategies can identify the sense of community? Teresita Castillo and Teresita Campo from the Universidad Autonoma de Yucatán, Mexico, present the advances of a research on the validation of a scale on community sense in marginal urban contexts of the city of Mérida, Yucatán as part of an international research. It is based on the importance of the sense of community in the strengthening of the social context as the basis of a safe and peaceful society, which highlights the need for valid and reliable instruments for measuring it. Is it possible to question whether the sense of community could also be a category linked to oppression? James Ferreira Moura Junior of the University of International Integration of the Afro-Brazilian Lusophone, Brazil, will present the understandings of the sense of community of women in poverty in a rural community in Brazil. The lack of knowledge among people and of the needs and resources of their environments, added to the deteriorated levels of emotional bonds, affect the construction of processes of self-management and community development. It is then questioned whether the sense of community can be the same for different social groups. Hence the descontruction of the sense of community should be a process with the capacity to mark out and contribute to the reduction of poverty in its various dimensions.