Community

Map Branches

• Types of communities
  • Geographic communities
    • neighbourhood
    • suburb
    • village
    • town
    • city
    • region
    • nation
    • planet
  • communities of culture
    • local clique
    • ethnic group
    • religious
    • multi-cultural
    • pluralistic civilisations
    • communities of need or identity
      • disabled persons
      • frail aged people
  • community organizations
    • informal family or kiship networks
    • associations
    • political decision making structures
    • economic enterprises
    • professional associations
• What makes a community?
  • the strength of the ties between a group of whatever nature - cultural, ethnic or moral - they may be.
• What is it?
  • a group of individuals who share characteristics, regardless of their location or type of interaction.
    • an ethnic group
    • community of interest

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