The following outline is provided as an overview of topics relating to community.
A community is a group of people whose identity as a group lies in their interaction and sharing. Many factors may affect the identity of the participants and their degree of adhesion, such as intent, belief, resources, preferences, needs and risks.
Types of communities
Geographic and physical communities
Human geography – who people are and where they live
- European Community – founded on March 25, 1957, by the signing of the Treaty of Rome
- Community council – tier of local government in Wales and Scotland
- Autonomous communities of Spain – Spain's fifty provinces are grouped into seventeen autonomous communities
- Communities, regions and language areas of Belgium
- Local community – town, city, neighborhood, rural area, or any locale and everyone in it
- Unincorporated community – geographic area having a common social identity
- Residential community – small town or city, composed mostly of residents
- Intentional Community – planned residential community, usually of people that share personal and cultural values.
- Cohousing – intentional community composed of private homes centered around a common house and other common facilities.
- Ecovillage – intentional community formed with social, economic, and ecological sustainability as its goal.
- Commune (intentional community) – intentional community where most resources are shared and there is little or no personal property (as opposed to communities that only share housing)
- Monastery – community of monks practicing a religious discipline
- Convent – community of clergy particularly in the Roman Catholic Church and, to a lesser degree, in the Anglican Church
- World Brotherhood Colonies – idea for spiritual based intentional communities based on shared spiritual principles, begun by Paramahansa Yogananda
Global community
- World community – global aspects of community from the perspective of governance and the humanities
- International community – global aspects of community from the perspective of governance and the humanities
- Global village – global aspects of community from the perspective of telecommunications
Ideational or abstract communities
Associative communities
Community of...
- Action – group of people organized to support a cause or bring about social change
- Circumstance – group of people bound together because of circumstances usually beyond their control
- Interest – group of people who share a common interest or passion
- Place – group of people bound together because of where they spend a continuous portion of their time
- Position – group of people who share a particular station in life (such as teenage years, marriage, parenthood, etc.)
- Practice – group of people who choose to collaborate over an extended period to share ideas, find solutions, and build innovations.
- Purpose – group of people who are going through the same process or are trying to achieve a similar objective
see Group (sociology)
Cooperatives
Other
Actual communities
Lists of communities, co-ops, etc.:
Lists of virtual communities:
The world community:
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Online communities
Community concepts, movements and schools of thought
- Affinity (sociology) – in terms of sociology, refers to "kinship of spirit", interest and other interpersonal commonalities
- Cenobitic – monastic tradition that stresses community life as opposed to eremitic (like a hermit).
- Collective – group of people who share common interests, working together to achieve a common objective
- Collectivism – school of thought, antithetical to Individualism, in which the collective takes precedence over the individual
- Communitarianism – group of related but distinct philosophies advocating phenomena such as civil society
- Communitas – Latin noun for the spirit of community having significance in cultural anthropology and the social sciences.
- Community politics – movement in British politics to re-engage people with political action on a local level
- Community television – television stations that are owned and operated by communities rather than governments or corporations
- Consanguinity – quality of being descended from the same ancestor as another person
- Consensus decision-making – inclusive decision-making processes that accommodate even the minority
- Emergence – complex pattern formation from simpler rules
- Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft Рterms introduced by German sociologist Ferdinand Țnnies to distinguish community from society
- Group (sociology) – collection of people who share characteristics, interact and have a common identity
- Group dynamics – field of study within the social sciences that focuses on the nature of groups
- Imagined communities – concept that nations are socially constructed by the imaginations of people
- Internationalism (politics) – political movement which advocates cooperation between nations for the benefit of all
- Interpersonal relationship – connection, affiliation or association between two or more people
- Liminality – period of transition related to initiation, rite of passage or other entry into a group
- Meeting – two or more people coming together to have discussions or produce a predetermined output, often in a formalized way
- Meritocracy – form of government based on rule by ability (merit) rather than by wealth or other determinants of social position.
- Organization – formal group of people with one or more shared goals
- Organizational learning – area of knowledge that looks at how an organization learns and adapts
- Plenary session – part of a meeting when all members of all parties are in attendance
- Scientific Community Metaphor – approach in computer science to understanding and performing scientific communities
- Sense of community – look from the psychological perspective at how and why communities form and why people join them
- Small-group communication – communication in a context that mixes interpersonal communication interactions with social clustering
- Social capital – concept with a variety of inter-related definitions, based on the economic value of social networks
- Socialization – process by which people learn to adopt the behavior patterns of the community in which they live
- Solidarity (sociology) – feeling or condition of unity based on common goals, interests, and sympathies among a group's members
Academic subjects
Community development
Community development – efforts to improve communities:
- Community organizing – process by which people are brought together to act in common self-interest
- Community building – the more informal (or intangible) aspects of community development; the establishment, broadening and deepening of links between community members
- Community economic development – efforts to improve the material aspects of local communities
- Community development planning – Public participatory and usually interactive town or neighborhood planning and design
- Community practice – type of social work practice that focuses on community level interventions
- Community service – service (voluntary or compulsory) that a person performs for the benefit of his or her local community
Virtual community concepts
Virtual community Virtual community – group of people communicating with each other by means of information technologies:
See also
Other community topics
Community institutions
- Community college – educational institution providing post-secondary education
- Community wind energy – projects that are locally owned by farmers, investors, businesses, schools, utilities, or other public or private entities who utilise wind energy to support and reduce energy costs to the local community
- Community foundations – institutions that pool donations into coordinated investments for grants
- Community (trade union) – trade union in the UK
See also
Other uses of the term "community"
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- Biological community, all the interacting organisms living together in a specific habitat
Resources
See: List of community topics: Resources
External links