COMMUNITY. Although groupings or community formations are a regular feature of the phenomenon of religion, it is important to recognize that they are neither necessary nor equally prominent in all religions. There are situations otherwise completely...

The sociology of community has been a dominant source of sociological inquiry since the earliest days of the discipline. Each of the three most influential nineteenth century sociologists (Marx, Durkheim, and Weber) regarded the social transformation...

The term community relates to a wide range of phenomena and has been used as an omnibus word loaded with diverse associations. Hillery (1955) unearthed no fewer than ninety-four definitions of community and its definition has continued to be a thriving...

Community is a term with widely varying historical and current meanings in both specialized and everyday discourse. It also possesses several dimensions—ethical, political, social, ontological, psychological, and epistemological—many of...

A community is made up of all of the populations of different species living in a specific environment. A community is only the living components of the environment. For example, all of the algae, plants, frogs, fish, and other organisms living in and...

The word community has a variety of political uses. It can be an ideal, evoking a political order characterized by warm, fraternal and caring social relations of an almost family-like nature. In this usage it resembles the idea of fraternity, one of...

in biology, an interacting group of various species in a common location. For example, a forest of trees and undergrowth plants, inhabited by animals and rooted in soil containing bacteria and fungi, constitutes a biological community. A brief...

The concept of community has been one of the widest and most frequently used in social science; its examination has been a focus of attention for at least the past 200 years. At the same time a precise definition of the term has proved elusive. Among...

There are said to be over 90 different definitions of this word in sociology. However, in adult education the word seems to have four different basic meanings: 1. A group of people who either live, or work, together. 2. A geographical area where people...

A collectivity: a household, a neighbourhood, village, city, state, transnational interest group, in ascending order of size. See also:...

Communities begin by building their kitchen....

A community is a social group of organisms sharing an environment, normally with shared interests. In human communities, intent, belief, resources, preferences, needs, risks and a number of other conditions may be present and common, affecting the...