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From Encyclopedia of Urban Studies
The concept of community has appeared regularly throughout urban studies and is generally employed in reference to all aspects of the social life of cities, including population size, demographic distribution, and neighborhood composition. Traditionally used by anthropologists, sociologists, geographers, and urban planners to signify a set of social relationships operating within a specific boundary, location, or territory, community is arguably one of the most contested concepts used in the study of the city and society. Many of these usages are either actual or ideal in description, and it is often difficult to separate analytical from normative usages of the term. Although conventionally evoked to describe the characteristics of a specific locality or area, the idea of community has also been used in far more ideological terms as a means by which to substantiate a particular identity (e.g., lesbian community) or to further a specific political project (e.g., community-based…
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From Dictionary of Race, Ethnicity & Culture
From the Latin communitas , a unified body of individuals, the term ‘community’ is one of the most important words in the modern and contemporary political, philosophical and sociological lexicon. A community is any large or small group of people sharing a common history, language, set of values or…
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From The Social Science Jargon-Buster
Core definition A group of people who share a sense of belonging based on commonalities such as residential area, culture , race, religion, profession or interests. Longer explanation While communities can be based on any number of commonalities, one of the most widespread conceptions of community…
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From Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Political Thought
A term denoting a social group , usually identified in terms of a common habitat (such as town, village, or district), and implying both a body of common interest, a degree of social cooperation and interaction in the pursuit of them and a sense of belonging among the members. By extension, any…
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From Political Philosophy A-Z
Generally, community refers to any relatively stable social group, based on or differentiated by, more or less any characteristic. However, the word also has a more technical use in John Locke ’s Second Treatise. For Locke, the community is what emerges from the state of nature . The community…
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From Collins Dictionary of Sociology
Any set of social relationships operating within certain boundaries, locations or territories. The term (as used by both sociologists and geographers) has descriptive and prescriptive connotations in both popular and academic usage. It may refer to social relationships which take place within…
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From Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology
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 the more renowned attempts remains that of Robert…
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From Dictionary of Probation and Offender Management
Community is a commonly used word in the criminal justice context and yet it is difficult to define. It usually refers to a geographical area or a ‘community of interests’. Community is viewed by policymakers as a key element in the strategy to reduce crime. Criminal justice policies utilize the…
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From Global Dictionary of Theology
God's project in the world can be described as shaping a community, a people whose identity is centered in God, as illustrated in Israel (OT) and the church (NT). The Judeo-Christian faith is marked by this stress on community, in contrast to other religions such as * Hinduism and * Buddhism , which…
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From American Governance
Community is a key concept in political theory and philosophy that lies at the heart of many important social and political debates. Nonetheless, the conceptual clarification of the term community often leaves much to be desired. It has therefore been described as a rather vague, murky, or amorphous…
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From Key Concepts in Education
Community is a word almost impossible to utter with hostility. It is also, like so many of our concepts , so generally applied to such differing conditions that it is difficult to see how it can carry such a heavy weight of value . Thus, newspapers regularly speak of the community of nations, large…
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