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EMAM HOSSAN

United International University

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Origin of the report:

As a business student it is reallyimportant for us to know community norms andvalues. We know community behavior and culture areimportant to start new business. Analyses basicconcept of community is help to determine businesspolicy.

Purpose:

The purpose of preparing this report is to identifycommunity norms and values. We are also interestedto know

1. Why should educators be concerned withcommunity?

2. How can community develop?3. What is community sense?

Scope:

We have got access to the information which is

most relevant for this report. We have prepared areport that can help us to get ideas about the abovequestions of community.

Limitation:

While preparing this report, we have faced someproblems. Such as

Time limitation:

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We have got only 9 days for preparing this reportwith all other activities. This time is not enough toprepare a report.

Data limitation:

We have prepared this report based onbooks, articles and internet. In this report, theancient community concept is not available which wasnecessary for this report. Besides, we could notcollect any information from the real world.

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Community

In biological terms, a community is a group of interacting organisms

sharing an emvironment. The word community is derived from the latin

communitas, which is in turn derived from communis, which means

"common, public, shared by all or many. Communis comes from a

combination of the Latin prefix com- which means "together" and the

word munis which has to do with performing services.

Community is a group of people who interact and share certain thingsas a group.

Defination

Community is a social group with some degree ofwe-feelingand living

in a given area.

Bogardus

Community is the small territorial group that oan embra ce all aspects

of social life.

Kingsley Davis

Community is an area of social living marked by some degree of social

coherence.

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R.M. Maclver

community is any circle of people who live together and belong

together in such a way that they do not share this or that particular

interest only, but a whole set of interest.

Manheim

Types of Community

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Community

Geographic

&

Physical

Global

Community

Abstract

Community

Associative

Community

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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

A town, city, neighborhood, rural area, or any locale and everyone in it.

Unincorporated community

A geographic area having a common social identity.

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Residential Community

A community, usually a small town or city that is composed mostly of

residents.

Intentional Community

A planned residential community, usually of people that share personal

and cultural values.

Co housing communities, a kind of intentional community

composed of private homes centered around a common house and other

common facilities.

Ecovillage, a kind of intentional community formed with social,

economic, and ecological sustainability as its goal.

Commune (intentional community), a kind of intentional

community where most resources are shared and there is little or no

personal property (as opposed to communities that only share housing).

Monastery, a community of usually monks practicing a religious

discipline.

Convent , a community of clergy particularly in the Roman

Catholic Church and, to a lesser degree, in the Anglican Church.

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World Brotherhood Colonies, idea for spiritual based intentional

communities based on shared spiritual principles, begun by

Paramahansa Yogananda.

Global Community

World community

The global aspects of community from the perspective of

governance and the humanities.

International Community


governance and the humanities.

Global village


telecommunications.

Ideational or Abstract Communities

Business Community

The total body of business peoples its relationships and

interactions.

Religious Community

The total body of religious peoples its relationships and

interactions.

Scientific community

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The total body of scientists, its relationships and interactions.

Epistemic Community

Those who accept one version of a story.

Discourse Community

Used in linguistics to describe the users of a particular style of

language.

Moral Community

A group of people drawn together by a common interest in livingaccording to a particular moral philosophy.

Voluntary Association

A group of individuals who voluntarily enter into an agreement

to accomplish a purpose.

Cooperative

A group of persons who join together (co-operate) to carry on aneconomic activity of mutual benefit.

Associative communities

Community of...

Action, a group of people organized to support a cause or bringabout social change.

Circumstance, a group of people bound together because of

circumstances usually beyond their control.

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Interest, a group of people who share a common interest or

passion.

Place, a group of people bound together because of where they

spend a continuous portion of their time.

Position, a group of people who share a particular station in life

(such as teenage years, marriage, parenthood, etc.).

Practice, a group of people who choose to collaborate over an

extended period to share ideas, find solutions, and build innovations.

Purpose, a group of people who are going through the same

process or are trying to achieve a similar objective.

Cooperatives

Housing Cooperative, a legal entity that owns real estate, usually

one or more residential buildings.

Retailers' Cooperative, a network of retailers which employs

economies of scale to get discounts from manufacturers and to pool

marketing.

Consumers' Cooperative, a type of cooperative which employs

economies of scale to get discounts from distributors.

Utility Cooperative, a public utility such as electric, water or

telecommunications owned by its members.

Worker Cooperative, a type of business entity owned in part or

exclusively by its workers.

Other

Affinity Group, is a small group of activists (usually from 3-20)

who work together on direct action.

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Intentional Community, a planned residential community with a

much higher degree of social interaction than other communities.

Learning Community, a cohort-based, interdisciplinary approach

to higher education covering distinct fields of study.

Virtual Community

Web Community

Online Communities

Craig list: A centralized network of online urban communities,

featuring free classified advertisements (with jobs, housing, personals,

for sale/barter/wanted, services, community, gigs and resumescategories) and forums sorted by various topics.

Basic community concepts, movements and schools of

thought

Sense of community, a look from the psychological perspective at

how and why communities form and why people join them.

Scientific Community, Metaphor, an approach in computer

science to understanding and performing scientific communities.

Community politics, a movement in British politics to re-engage

people with political action on a local level.

Imagined communities, a concept that nations are socially

constructed by the imaginations of people.

Internationalism (politics), a political movement which advocates

cooperation between nations for the benefit of all.

Communitarianism, a group of related but distinct philosophies

advocating phenomena such as civil society.

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Consensus decision-making, inclusive decision-making processes

that accommodate even the minority.

Meritocracy, a form of government based on rule by ability

(merit) rather than by wealth or other determinants of social position.

Interpersonal relationship, a connection, affiliation or association

between two or more people.

Social capital, a concept with a variety of inter-related definitions,

based on the economic value of social networks.

Communitas, a Latin noun for the spirit of community having

significance in cultural anthropology and the social sciences.

Community television, television stations that are owned and

operated by communities rather than governments or corporations.

Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft, terms introduced by German

sociologist Ferdinand Townies to distinguish community from society

Group dynamics, the field of study within the social sciences that

focuses on the nature of groups.

Small-group communication, communication in a context that

mixes interpersonal communication interactions with social clustering.

Socialization, the process by which people learn to adopt the

behavior patterns of the community in which they live.

Collectivism, a school of thought, antithetical to Individualism, in

which the collective takes precedence over the individual.

Organizational learning, an area of knowledge that looks at how

an organization learns and adapts.

Affinity (sociology), in terms of sociology, refers to "kinship of

spirit", interest and other interpersonal commonalities.

Cenobitic, a monastic tradition that stresses community life as

opposed to eremitic like a hermit.

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Collective, a group of people who share common interests,

working together to achieve a common objective.

Consanguinity, the quality of being descended from the same

ancestor as another person.

Emergence, complex pattern formation from simpler rules.

Group (sociology), a collection of people who share characteristics,

interact and have a common identity.

Liminality, a 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.

Organization, a formal group of people with one or more shared

goals.

Plenary session, the part of a meeting when all members of all

parties are in attendance.

Solidarity (sociology), the feeling or condition of unity based on

common goals, interests, and sympathies among a group's members.

Community Development

Community development refers to efforts to improve communities:

Community organizing, a process by which people are brought

together to act in common self-interest.

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Community building often refers to the more informal (or

intangible) aspects of community development.

Community economicdevelopmentrefers to efforts to improve the

material aspects of local communities.

Community practice, a 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

Category:Internet culture

Virtual community, a group of people communicating with each other

by means of information technologies:

Bulletin board system

Chat room, an 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, a 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

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Usenet, a 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, the development of interlinked

computer networks

World Wide Web, a global, read-write information space

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The Ending Summary

After conducting our data we have reached thefollowing conclusion:

A community is a territorial group. It alwaysoccupies some geographical area. Locality is thephysical basis of community. The physical factor suchas fertile soil, minerals, forests, weather climate etc.are included in the locality.

Conclusion

From our report on basic concept of communitywe try to find out sense of community, communitydevelopment, community types and identity.

There can be no vulnerability without risk; therecan be no community without vulnerability; there canbe no peace, and ultimately no life, withoutcommunity

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Recommendation

The recommendations of our report are as follows:- Community change their behavior rationally or

irrationally.

Community can change custom in any event.

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The data we used in this report was collected fromthe below sources:

We have collected much information from thebook

Principles of sociology C. N. Shankar Rao .

The websites we visited were-www.google.comwww.yahoo.comwww.gmail.com

Besides this we have collected data from thebelow books-

We were helped a lot from our family.

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