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Terms in this set (8) What is a community? A community is a place where people live, work, and play together. In what ways are communities alike? All communities need places to live, food to eat, water to drink, good jobs, good schools, family and/or friends. What is a law?
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People who live in the same area, such as a village, a town or just one street are all part of a shared community. Shared hobbies and interests. People who have similar interests, for example ...
- It’S About people.
- People Live in Multiple Communities.
- Communities Are Nested Within Each other.
- Communities Have Formal and Informal Institutions.
- Communities Are Organized in Different ways.
First and foremost, community is not a place, a building, or an organization; nor is it an exchange of information over the Internet. Community is both a feeling and a set of relationships among people. People form and maintain communities to meet common needs. Members of a community have a sense of trust, belonging, safety, and caring for each oth...
Since meeting common needs is the driving force behind the formation of communities, most people identify and participate in several of them, often based on neighborhood, nation, faith, politics, race or ethnicity, age, gender, hobby, or sexual orientation. Most of us participate in multiple communities within a given day. The residential neighborh...
Just like Russian Matryoshka dolls, communities often sit within other communities. For example, in a neighborhood—a community in and of itself—there may be ethnic or racial communities, communities based on people of different ages and with different needs, and communities based on common economic interests. When a funder or evaluator looks at a n...
Communities form institutions—what we usually think of as large organizations and systems such as schools, government, faith, law enforcement, or the nonprofit sector—to more effectively fulfill their needs. Equally important, however, are communities’ informal institutions, such as the social or cultural networks of helpers and leaders (for exampl...
Every community is organized to meet its members’ needs, but they operate differently based on the cultures, religions, and other experiences of their members. For example, while the African American church is generally understood as playing an important role in promoting health education and social justice for that community, not all faith institu...
In fact, when we think of the word community itself, the thing that springs to mind is a village or a town. A small group of people who all live in the same small area, near to one another. Neighbours, of a sort. But community can cover many different kinds of groups than just people who live near each other. For example, several people who are ...
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The term community is one of the most elusive and vague in sociology and is by now largely without specific meaning. At the minimum it refers to a collection of people in a geographical area. Three other elements may also be present in any usage. (1) Communities may be thought of as collections of people with a particular social structure ...
