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For the TV series, seeCommunity (TV series).For other uses, seeCommunity (disambiguation).

Acommunityis asocial unit(a group of people) with a shared socially-significant characteristic, such asplace,set ofnorms,culture,religion,values,customs,oridentity.Communities may share a sense of place situated in a given geographical area (e.g. acountry,village,town,orneighborhood) or in virtual space through communication platforms. Durable good relations that extend beyond immediate genealogical ties also define a sense of community, important to people's identity, practice, and roles in socialinstitutionssuch asfamily,home, work,government,TV network,[clarification needed]society,or humanity at large.[1]Although communities are usually small relative to personal social ties, "community" may also refer to large-group affiliations such asnational communities,international communities,andvirtual communities.[2]

Community townhall
Acommunity of interestgathers atStonehenge,England, for the summer solstice.

In terms ofsociologicalcategories, a community can seem like a sub-set of asocial collectivity.[3] In developmental views, a community can emerge out of a collectivity.[4]

TheEnglish-languageword "community" derives from theOld Frenchcomuneté(Modern French:communauté), which comes from theLatincommunitas"community", "public spirit" (from Latincommunis,"common" ).[5]

Humancommunities may haveintent,belief,resources,preferences,needs,andrisksin common, affecting the identity of the participants and their degree ofcohesiveness.[6]

Perspectives of various disciplines

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Archaeology

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Archaeological studiesof social communities use the term "community" in two ways, mirroring usage in other areas. The first meaning is an informal definition of community as a place where people used to live. In this literal sense it is synonymous with the concept of an ancientsettlement—whether ahamlet,village,town,orcity.The second meaning resembles the usage of the term in othersocial sciences:a community is a group of people living near one another who interact socially.Social interactionon a small scale can be difficult to identify with archaeological data. Most reconstructions of social communities by archaeologists rely on the principle that social interaction in the past was conditioned by physical distance. Therefore, a small village settlement likely constituted a social community and spatial subdivisions of cities and other large settlements may have formed communities.Archaeologiststypically use similarities inmaterial culture—from house types to styles of pottery—to reconstruct communities in the past. This classification method relies on the assumption that people or households will share more similarities in the types and styles of their material goods with other members of a social community than they will with outsiders.[7]

Sociology

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Early sociological studies identified communities as fringe groups at the behest of local power elites. Such early academic studies includeWho Governs?byRobert Dahlas well as the papers byFloyd HunteronAtlanta.At the turn of the 21st century the concept of community was rediscovered by academics, politicians, and activists. Politicians hoping for a democratic election started to realign with community interests.[8]

Ecology

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Main article:Community (ecology)

Inecology,a community is an assemblage of populations—potentially of different species—interacting with one another. Community ecology is the branch of ecology that studies interactions between and among species. It considers how such interactions, along with interactions between species and theabioticenvironment, affect social structure and species richness, diversity and patterns of abundance.[9]Species interact in three ways:competition,predationandmutualism:

  • Competition typically results in a double negative—that is both species lose in the interaction.
  • Predation involves a win/lose situation, with one species winning.
  • Mutualism sees both species co-operating in some way, with both winning.

The two main types of ecological communities aremajorcommunities, which are self-sustaining and self-regulating (such as a forest or a lake), andminorcommunities, which rely on other communities (like fungi decomposing a log) and are the building blocks of major communities. Moreover, we can establish other non-taxonomic subdivisions of biocenosis, such asguilds.

A simplified example of a community. A community includes many populations and how they interact with each other. This example shows interaction between the zebra and the bush, and between the lion and the zebra, as well as between the bird and the organisms by the water, like the worms.

Semantics

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The concept of "community" often has a positive semantic connotation, exploited rhetorically by populist politicians and by advertisers[10] to promote feelings and associations of mutual well-being, happiness and togetherness[11]—veering towards an almost-achievableutopian community.

In contrast, theepidemiologicalterm "community transmission"can have negative implications,[12]and instead of a "criminal community"[13]one often speaks of a "criminal underworld"or of the" criminal fraternity ".

Key concepts

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Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft

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Main article:Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft

InGemeinschaft und Gesellschaft(1887), German sociologistFerdinand Tönniesdescribed two types of human association:Gemeinschaft(usually translated as "community" ) andGesellschaft( "society" or "association" ). Tönnies proposed theGemeinschaft–Gesellschaftdichotomyas a way to think about social ties. No group is exclusively one or the other.Gemeinschaftstress personalsocial interactions,and the roles, values, and beliefs based on such interactions.Gesellschaftstress indirect interactions, impersonal roles, formal values, and beliefs based on such interactions.[14]

Sense of community

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Main article:Sense of community

In a seminal 1986 study, McMillan and Chavis[15]identify four elements of "sense of community":

  1. membership: feeling of belonging or of sharing a sense of personal relatedness,
  2. influence: mattering, making a difference to a group and of the group mattering to its members
  3. reinforcement: integration and fulfillment of needs,
  4. shared emotional connection.
To what extent do participants in joint activities experience asense of community?

A "sense of community index" (SCI) was developed by Chavis and colleagues, and revised and adapted by others. Although originally designed to assess sense of community in neighborhoods, the index has been adapted for use in schools, the workplace, and a variety of types of communities.[16]

Studies conducted by the APPA[who?]indicate that young adults who feel a sense of belonging in a community, particularly small communities, develop fewer psychiatric and depressive disorders than those who do not have the feeling of love and belonging.[17]

Socialization

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Main article:Socialization
Lewes Bonfire Nightprocession commemorating 17 Protestant martyrs burnt at the stake from 1555 to 1557

The process of learning to adopt thebehaviorpatterns of the community is calledsocialization.The most fertile time of socialization is usually the early stages of life, during whichindividualsdevelop the skills and knowledge and learn therolesnecessary to function within theircultureandsocial environment.[18]For some psychologists, especially those in thepsychodynamictradition, the most important period of socialization is between the ages of one and ten. But socialization also includes adults moving into a significantly different environment where they must learn a new set of behaviors.[19]

Socialization is influenced primarily by the family, through which children first learn communitynorms.Other important influences include schools,peergroups, people, mass media, theworkplace,and government. The degree to which the norms of a particular society or community are adopted determines one's willingness to engage with others. The norms oftolerance,reciprocity,andtrustare important "habits of the heart", asde Tocquevilleput it, in an individual's involvement in community.[20]

Community development

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Main article:Community development

Community development is often linked withcommunity workor community planning, and may involve stakeholders, foundations, governments, or contracted entities includingnon-government organisations(NGOs), universities or government agencies to progress the social well-being of local, regional and, sometimes, national communities. More grassroots efforts, calledcommunity buildingorcommunity organizing,seek to empower individuals and groups of people by providing them with the skills they need to effect change in their own communities.[21]These skills often assist in building political power through the formation of large social groups working for a common agenda. Community development practitioners must understand both how to work with individuals and how to affect communities' positions within the context of larger social institutions. Public administrators, in contrast, need to understand community development in the context of rural and urban development, housing and economic development, and community, organizational and business development.

Formal accredited programs conducted by universities, as part of degree granting institutions, are often used to build a knowledge base to drive curricula inpublic administration,sociologyandcommunity studies.TheGeneral Social Surveyfrom theNational Opinion Research Centerat theUniversity of Chicagoand theSaguaro Seminarat theHarvard Kennedy Schoolare examples of national community development in the United States. TheMaxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairsat Syracuse University in New York State offers core courses in community and economic development, and in areas ranging from non-profit development to US budgeting (federal to local, community funds). In the United Kingdom, theUniversity of Oxfordhas led in providing extensive research in the field through itsCommunity Development Journal,[22]used worldwide by sociologists and community development practitioners.

At the intersection between communitydevelopmentand communitybuildingare a number of programs and organizations with community development tools. One example of this is the program of theAsset Based Community DevelopmentInstitute ofNorthwestern University.The institute makes available downloadable tools[23]to assess community assets and make connections betweennon-profit groupsand other organizations that can help in community building. The Institute focuses on helping communities develop by "mobilizing neighborhood assets" – building from the inside out rather than the outside in.[24]In the disability field, community building was prevalent in the 1980s and 1990s with roots in John McKnight's approaches.[25][26]

Community building and organizing

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The anti-waraffinity group"Collateral Damage"protestingtheIraq War

InThe Different Drum: Community-Making and Peace(1987)Scott Peckargues that the almost accidental sense of community that exists at times of crisis can be consciously built. Peck believes that conscious community building is a process of deliberate design based on the knowledge and application of certain rules.[27]He states that this process goes through four stages:[28]

  1. Pseudocommunity:When people first come together, they try to be "nice" and present what they feel are their most personable and friendly characteristics.
  2. Chaos:People move beyond the inauthenticity of pseudo-community and feel safe enough to present their "shadow" selves.
  3. Emptiness:Moves beyond the attempts to fix, heal and convert of the chaos stage, when all people become capable of acknowledging their own woundedness and brokenness, common to human beings.
  4. True community:Deep respect and true listening for the needs of the other people in this community.

In 1991, Peck remarked that building a sense of community is easy but maintaining this sense of community is difficult in the modern world.[29]An interview with M. Scott Peck by Alan Atkisson.In Context#29, p. 26. The three basic types of community organizing aregrassrootsorganizing,coalitionbuilding, and "institution-based community organizing", (also called "broad-based community organizing", an example of which isfaith-based community organizing,orCongregation-based Community Organizing).[30]

Community building can use a wide variety of practices, ranging from simple events (e.g.,potlucks,smallbook clubs) to larger-scale efforts (e.g., massfestivals,constructionprojects that involve local participants rather than outside contractors).

Community building that is geared toward citizen action is usually termed "community organizing".[31]In these cases, organized community groups seek accountability from elected officials and increased direct representation within decision-making bodies. Where good-faith negotiations fail, these constituency-led organizations seek to pressure the decision-makers through a variety of means, including picketing,boycotting,sit-ins, petitioning, and electoral politics.

Community organizing can focus on more than just resolving specific issues. Organizing often means building a widely accessible power structure, often with the end goal of distributing power equally throughout the community. Community organizers generally seek to build groups that are open and democratic in governance. Such groups facilitate and encourageconsensus decision-makingwith a focus on the general health of the community rather than a specific interest group.[32]

If communities are developed based on something they share in common, whether location or values, then one challenge for developing communities is how to incorporate individuality and differences. Rebekah Nathan suggests[according to whom?]in her book,My Freshman Year,we are drawn to developing communities totally based on sameness, despite stated commitments to diversity, such as those found on university websites.

Types of community

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Participants in Diana Leafe Christian's "Heart of a Healthy Community" seminar circle during an afternoon session at O.U.R.Ecovillage

A number of ways to categorize types of community have been proposed. One such breakdown is as follows:

  1. Location-based Communities:range from the localneighbourhood,suburb,village,townorcity,region, nation or even the planet as a whole. These are also calledcommunities of place.
  2. Identity-based Communities:range from the local clique, sub-culture,ethnic group,religious,multiculturalorpluralisticcivilisation,or theglobalcommunity cultures of today. They may be included ascommunities of needoridentity,such asdisabled persons,orfrail agedpeople.
  3. Organizationally-based Communities:range from communities organized informally aroundfamilyornetwork-based guilds and associations to more formalincorporated associations,politicaldecision-makingstructures,economicenterprises, or professional associations at a small, national or international scale.
  4. Intentional Communities:a mix of all three previous types, these are highly cohesive residential communities with a common social or spiritual purpose, ranging frommonasteriesandashramsto modernecovillagesandhousing cooperatives.

The usual categorizations of community relations have a number of problems:[33](1) they tend to give the impression that a particular community can be defined as just this kind or another; (2) they tend to conflate modern and customary community relations; (3) they tend to take sociological categories such as ethnicity or race as given, forgetting that different ethnically defined persons live in different kinds of communities—grounded, interest-based, diasporic, etc.[34]

In response to these problems,Paul Jamesand his colleagues have developed ataxonomythat maps community relations, and recognizes that actual communities can be characterized by different kinds of relations at the same time:[35]

  1. Grounded community relations.This involves enduring attachment to particular places and particular people. It is the dominant form taken by customary andtribal communities.In these kinds of communities, the land is fundamental to identity.
  2. Life-style community relations.This involves giving primacy to communities coming together around particular chosen ways of life, such as morally charged or interest-based relations or just living or working in the same location. Hence the following sub-forms:
    1. community-life as morally bounded, a form taken by many traditional faith-based communities.
    2. community-life as interest-based, including sporting, leisure-based and business communities which come together for regular moments of engagement.
    3. community-life as proximately-related, where neighbourhood or commonality of association forms a community of convenience, or acommunity of place(see below).
  3. Projected community relations.This is where a community is self-consciously treated as an entity to be projected and re-created. It can be projected as through thin advertising slogan, for examplegated community,or can take the form of ongoing associations of people who seek political integration,communities of practice[36]based on professional projects, associative communities which seek to enhance and support individual creativity, autonomy and mutuality. Anationis one of the largest forms of projected orimagined community.

In these terms, communities can be nested and/or intersecting; one community can contain another—for example a location-based community may contain a number ofethnic communities.[37]Both lists above can be used in a cross-cutting matrix in relation to each other.

Internet communities

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Main article:Virtual community

In general,virtual communitiesvalue knowledge and information ascurrencyor social resource.[38][39][40][41]What differentiates virtual communities from their physical counterparts is the extent and impact of "weak ties", which are the relationships acquaintances or strangers form to acquire information through online networks.[42]Relationships among members in avirtual communitytend to focus on information exchange about specific topics.[43][44]A survey conducted byPew Internetand The American Life Project in 2001 found those involved in entertainment, professional, and sports virtual-groups focused their activities on obtaining information.[45]

An epidemic ofbullyingand harassment has arisen from the exchange of information between strangers, especially among teenagers,[46]in virtual communities. Despite attempts to implement anti-bullying policies, Sheri Bauman, professor of counselling at the University of Arizona, claims the "most effective strategies to prevent bullying" may cost companies revenue.[47]

Virtual Internet-mediated communities can interact with offlinereal-lifeactivity, potentially forming strong and tight-knit groups such asQAnon.[48]

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^James, Paul;Nadarajah, Yaso; Haive, Karen; Stead, Victoria (2012).Sustainable Communities, Sustainable Development: Other Paths for Papua New Guinea.Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. p. 14.[...] we define community very broadly as a group or network of persons who are connected (objectively) to each other by relatively durable social relations that extend beyond immediate genealogical ties and who mutually define that relationship (subjectively) as important to their social identity and social practice.
  2. ^ See also: James, Paul(2006).Globalism, Nationalism, Tribalism: Bringing Theory Back In – Volume 2 of Towards a Theory of Abstract Community.London: Sage Publications.
  3. ^ Rydin, Yvonne (1 October 1999). "Public participation in planning: Public participation and collective decision making". In Cullingworth, J. Barry (ed.).British Planning: 50 Years of Urban and Regional Policy.London: The Athlone Press. p. 196.ISBN9780485006049.Retrieved6 September2024.[...] planning decisions are a form of collective decision making. This is not the same thing as decision making by the local community since that represents only a subset of the broader social collectivity.
  4. ^ Howell, Signe(2002). "Community beyond place: Adoptive families in Norway". In Amit, Vered (ed.).Realizing Community: Concepts, Social Relationships and Sentiments.European Association of Social Anthropologists. London: Psychology Press. p. 98.ISBN9780415229074.Retrieved6 September2024.[...] without [...] interaction [...], a category of collectivity is likely to remain a conceptual category rather than [...] become a community. It seems likely that some sort of social intimacy, particularly when this takes place at vulnerable times, must occur to serve as a paradigmatic vehicle for the wider sense of shared experience.
  5. ^"community".Oxford English Dictionary(Online ed.).Oxford University Press.doi:10.1093/OED/1005093760.(Subscription orparticipating institution membershiprequired.)
  6. ^Melih, Bulu (2011).City Competitiveness and Improving Urban Subsystems: Technologies and Applications: Technologies and Applications.IGI Global.ISBN978-1-61350-175-7.In human communities, intent, belief, resources, preferences, needs, risks, and a number of other conditions may be present and common, affecting the identity of the participants and their degree of cohesiveness.
  7. ^Canuto, Marcello A. and Jason Yaeger (editors) (2000)The Archaeology of Communities.Routledge, New York. Hegmon, Michelle (2002) Concepts of Community in Archaeological Research. InSeeking the Center: Archaeology and Ancient Communities in the Mesa Verde Region,edited by Mark D. Varien and Richard H. Wilshusen, pp. 263–279. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
  8. ^Stephen Danley (2018).A Neighborhood Politics of Last Resort: Post-Katrina New Orleans and the Right to the City.McGill-Queen's University Press. p. 3.ISBN9780773555891.
  9. ^Nicolson, Malcolm (March 1993)."L. A. Real and J. H. Brown (eds.), Foundations of Ecology: Classic Papers with Commentaries. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press (with the Ecological Society of America), 1991. Pp. xiv + 905".The British Journal for the History of Science.26(1): 129–130.doi:10.1017/s0007087400030673.ISSN0007-0874.
  10. ^ Wilson, Alexander, ed. (1968).Advertising and the Community.Reprints of economic classes (reprint ed.). Manchester: Manchester University Press. p. 39.ISBN978-0719003363.Retrieved6 June2021.In Britain, by far the more fashionable concern is that for advertising's value to the community.
  11. ^ Everingham, Christine (2003).Social Justice and the Politics of Community.Welfare and society: studies in welfare policy, practice and theory (reprint ed.). Aldershot: Ashgate. p. 21.ISBN978-0754633983.Retrieved6 June2021.Community is a very troublesome word then, having a wide range of meanings and connotations but little in the way of specific content. It is particularly useful as a rhetorical device because of its democratic and populist connotations, being associated with 'the people', as distinct from 'the government'.
  12. ^ For example: Basu, Mohana (13 March 2020)."What is community transmission — how one can contract COVID-19 without travelling".ThePrint.Printline Media Pvt Ltd.Retrieved6 June2021.[...] when the source of transmission for a large number of people is not traceable it is called a community transmission. [...]Most types of influenza and bird flu outbreaks in the past were known to have spread through community transmission. The outbreak of H1N1 in 2009, commonly known as swine flu, was primarily through community transmission. [...] In the case of community transmission, contact tracing is inadequate in containing the disease. [...] This is particularly worrisome for health officials because that means the virus is in the community but no one knows where it has come from or track its origins. This also means the virus can be widespread in a community.
  13. ^ Feinberg, Joel(1988).The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law: Harmless wrongdoing.Volume 4 of The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 103.ISBN978-0-19-504253-5.Retrieved6 June2021.There is, as I have said, a law enforcement community but not a criminal community. Why should that be?
  14. ^Tönnies, Ferdinand (1887).Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft,Leipzig: Fues's Verlag. An English translation of the 8th edition 1935 by Charles P. Loomis appeared in 1940 asFundamental Concepts of Sociology (Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft),New York: American Book Co.; in 1955 asCommunity and Association (Gemeinschaft und gesellschaft[sic]),London: Routledge & Kegan Paul; and in 1957 asCommunity and Society,East Lansing: Michigan State U.P. Loomis includes as an Introduction, representing Tönnies' "most recent thinking", his 1931 article "Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft" inHandwörterbuch der Soziologie(Stuttgart, Enke V.).
  15. ^McMillan, D.W., & Chavis, D.M. 1986. "Sense of community: A definition and theory," p. 16.
  16. ^Perkins, D.D., Florin, P., Rich, R.C., Wandersman, A. & Chavis, D.M. (1990). Participation and the social and physical environment of residential blocks: Crime and community context.American Journal of Community Psychology,18, 83–115. Chipuer, H.M., & Pretty, G.M.H. (1999). A review of the Sense of Community Index: Current uses, factor structure, reliability, and further development.Journal of Community Psychology,27(6), 643–658. Long, D.A., & Perkins, D.D. (2003). Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Sense of Community Index and Development of a Brief SCI.Journal of Community Psychology,31, 279–296.
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  18. ^Newman, D. 2005.Chapter 5. "Building Identity: Socialization"Archived2012-01-06 at theWayback Machinepp. 134–140.
  19. ^Newman, D. 2005, p. 41.
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  21. ^Kelly, Anthony,With Head, Heart and Hand: Dimensions of Community Building(Boolarong Press)ISBN978-0-86439-076-9[page needed]
  22. ^Community Development Journal,Oxford University Press
  23. ^ABCD Institute, in cooperation with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. 2006.Discovering Community Power: A Guide to Mobilizing Local Assets and Your Organization's Capacity.[dead link‍]
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  25. ^Lutfiyya, Z.M (1988, March).Going for it ": Life at the Gig Harbor Group Home.Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Center on Human Policy, Research and Training Center on Community Integration.
  26. ^McKnight, J. (1989).Beyond Community Services.Evanston, IL: Northwestern University, Center of Urban Affairs and Policy Research.
  27. ^M. Scott Peck,(1987).The Different Drum: Community-Making and Peace,pp. 83–85.
  28. ^Peck (1987), pp. 86–106.
  29. ^"Sense of Community: A Definition and Theory — Dr. David McMillan".Archivedfrom the original on 2022-12-29.Retrieved2022-12-29.
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  35. ^James, Paul;Nadarajah, Yaso; Haive, Karen; Stead, Victoria (2012).Sustainable Communities, Sustainable Development: Other Paths for Papua New Guinea (pdf download).Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
  36. ^Etienne Wenger, Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning and Identity, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998.
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Socialization

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Tips

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If you have trouble socializing here are 3 tips to help you:

  1. Participate in community activities. This can help get to know people, and therefore form afriendshipor community
  2. Know you'll be scared but socialize anyway, this can help to improve social skills by pushing you to be moresocial
  3. Join clubs of people with similar interests, this can help bond withpeoplethat are like you
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