Outline of community

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
• 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
• personal and cultural values
  .
  • Cohousing – intentional community composed of private homes centered around a common house and other common facilities.
  • 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)
  • monks
    practicing a religious discipline
  • 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

• Business community – total body of business people its relationships and interactions
• Religious congregation – total body of religious people its relationships and interactions
• intentional community – total body of religious people its relationships and interactions
• Scientific community – total body of scientists, its relationships and interactions
• Epistemic community – those who accept one version of a story
• Discourse Community
  – users of a particular style of language
• Moral community
  – group of people drawn together by a common interest in living according to a particular moral philosophy
• Voluntary association – group of individuals who voluntarily enter into an agreement to accomplish a purpose
• Cooperative – group of persons who join (co-operate) to carry on an economic activity of mutual benefit

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

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Cooperatives

• Housing cooperative – legal entity that owns real estate, usually one or more residential buildings
• Retailers' cooperative – network of retailers which employs economies of scale to get discounts from manufacturers and to pool marketing
• Consumers' cooperative – cooperative which employs economies of scale
  to get discounts from distributors
• Utility cooperative – public utility such as electric, water or telecommunications owned by its members
• business entity
  owned in part or exclusively by its workers

Other

• Affinity group – small group of activists (usually from 3-20) who work together on direct action
• social interaction
  than other communities
• interdisciplinary approach to higher education
  covering distinct fields of study
• Virtual community – See Virtual community section below
• Web community

Actual communities

Lists of

• Intentional communities
• Cooperatives

Lists of virtual communities:

• Benchmark virtual communities
• Additional virtual community listings

The world community:

Note to

• List of countries
  (a comprehensive list of List of sovereign states)
• List of subnational entities
  (a comprehensive list of subnational entities, such as states, provinces, communities, etc.)

Online communities

• resumes categories) and forums
  sorted by various topics

• Affinity (sociology) – in terms of sociology, refers to "kinship of spirit", interest and other interpersonal commonalities
• 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
• 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 – terms introduced by German sociologist Ferdinand Tönnies to distinguish community from society
• Group (sociology) – collection of people who share characteristics, interact and have a common identity
• 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
• group
• Meeting – two or more people coming together to have discussions or produce a predetermined output, often in a formalized way
• 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 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 studies – academic discipline, drawing on sociology and anthropology with emphasis on ethnography (participant observation)
• Community psychology – use of the principles of psychology to understand how communities work (or fail to work)
• Computational sociology – recently developed branch of sociology that uses computation to analyze social phenomena
• Cultural anthropology – field of anthropology comprising the holistic study of humanity
• Internet studies – emerging field of academia dealing with the interaction between the Internet and modern society
• Organizational Development – branch of Sociology
  that deals with how and why people organize themselves
• social sciences
• country
  .
• Social geography – how society affects geographical features and how environmental factors affect society.
• Social philosophy – philosophical study of interesting questions about social behavior (typically, of humans).
• Social sciences – groups of academic disciplines that study the human aspects of the world using scientific methods
• Sociocultural evolution – theories of cultural evolution and social evolution – describing how cultures and societies have developed over time
• Urban planning – discipline which deals with the development of metropolitan areas, municipalities and neighbourhoods

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:

• Bulletin board system –
• Chat room – online site in which people can chat online (talk by broadcasting messages to people on the same site in real time)
• Computer-mediated communication –
• Discourse community –
• Electronic mailing list
  – special usage of e-mail that allows for widespread distribution of information to many Internet users
• Internet activism –
• Internet forum –
• Internet social network
  –
• Massively distributed collaboration
  –
• Motivations for Contributing to Online Communities
  –
• Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing Games
• Network of practice –
• Online deliberation –
• Social network –
• Social evolutionary computation
  –
• The Virtual Community –
• Usenet – distributed Internet discussion system that evolved from a general purpose UUCP network of the same name
• Virtual Community of Practice
  –
• Virtual Ethnography
  –
• Virtual reality –
• Web community
  –
• Web of trust –
• Wireless community projects
  – development of interlinked computer networks
• World Wide Web – global, read-write information space

See also Category:Virtual communities

Other community topics

• Global Ecovillage Network – global association of people and communities (ecovillages) dedicated to living "sustainable plus" lives
• Communication – process of sending information to oneself or another entity – usually via a language
• Gathering place – phenomenal natural location crucial to culture and civilization
• San Francisco, California
  – USA
• Community garden – small plots of land allocated to groups of people by some organization for collective gardening
• WELL – (Whole Earth Lectronic Link or The WELL) - one of the oldest virtual communities
  still online.
• commune

• Community college – educational institution providing post-secondary education
• Community foundations
  – institutions that pool donations into coordinated investments for grants
• Community (trade union) – trade union in the UK

See also

• Community art
• Historian Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities
• Mobile community
• Original affluent society hunter-gatherer aspects of Marshall Sahlins (1966)
• Sustainable community
• Communities of innovation
• Tragedy of the commons and Tragedy of the anticommons

Other uses of the term "community"

• Community: A NewOrderOnline Tribute, a tribute album (music recording)
• Biological community
  , all the interacting organisms living together in a specific habitat

Resources

See:

List of community topics: Resources

External links

• Encyclopedia of Informal Education