Community
The term community is
very loosely used. It is given different interpretation to meant different
things like : religious community, rational community, professional community
etc. in wide term it uses to refer entire community.
Definitions:
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“Community is the group of people with some degree of “we feeling” and
living in given territory” -Bogardus
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“Community is the smallest territorial group that can embrace all aspect
of social life” - Kingsley Davis
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“A community is the group or collection of group that inhabits a
locality.”
-Ogburn and Nimkoff
A
community is essentially an area of social living. It is marked by some degree
of social coherence. Community is a circle in which a common life is living. Community
is an all-inclusive term. Community is the total organism of social life within
limited space.
Basic elements of
community
Locality: Community always occupied some
geographic area. Locality is the physical bases of community. A group of people
forms community only when it begins to the reside in a defined locality. Which
helps to the member to promote and fulfill their common interest. Locality
continues to be a basic factor of community life.
Community
sentiments: locality
alone cannot make a group, a community. Sometimes people live in a area but may
not have contract and communication. They may not have a common outlook and
share no common interest that is not a community.
A community sentiment means a feeling of belonging together. The member must be
aware of staying together and sharing common interest. The members develops a
sense we feeling. It is a kind of identification too.
Other aspects of
community
Ø Stability
Ø Naturalness
Ø Small Size
Ø Regulation of relation