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The Community Portal

Welcome to the Community Portal.

A Community is a tight formation of members that share common ground in a variety of real or abstract areas. Most sociologists agree that a society, while much larger in size, lacks the cohesion provided by the sense of community exhibited in a community. From a psychological perspective, an individual's success and happiness can be affected by their social interaction with others.

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Sense of community (or psychological sense of community) is a concept in social psychology (or more narrowly, in community psychology), which focuses on the experience of community rather than its structure, formation, setting, or other features. Sociologists, social psychologists, anthropologists, and others have theorized about and carried out empirical research on community, but the psychological approach asks questions about the individual's perception, understanding, attitudes, feelings, etc. about community and his or her relationship to it and to others' participation - indeed to the complete, multifaceted community experience. Read more...

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A community of interest gathers at Stonehenge for the summer solstice

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Did you know...

...that according to the McMillan & Chavis theory, there are four basic elements to the sense of community: membership, influence, fulfillment of needs and a shared emotional connection? Read more...
...that in the 1970s and 1980s, community development became a part of "Integrated Rural Development", a strategy promoted by United Nations Agencies and the World Bank? Read more...
...that Pierre Bourdieu in his book The Forms of Capital (1986) defines social capital as "the aggregate of the actual or potential resources which are linked to possession of a durable network of more or less institutionalized relationships of mutual acquaintance and recognition"? Read more...

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Community topics

The List of community topics contains a broad listing of Wikipedia articles about community. Here are some highlights:

Community kinds

Community, the human community:

World Community, the global aspects of community from the perspective of governance and the humanities
Global village, the global aspects of community from the perspective of telecommunications

Academic topics

Community principles: Meritocracy | Communitarianism | Collectivism | Affinity

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Web resources

The Citizen's Handbook
Community Development Journal (Oxford)
Community Economic Development Institute (Cape Breton University)
Smart Communities Blog
Fellowship for Intentional Community
Social Capital in Tampa Bay (University of South Florida)
Ray Oldenburg's Project for Public Spaces (PPS)
Community - a review of the theory (Infed.org)
BetterTogether.org an initiative of the Saguaro Seminar: Civic Engagement in America at Harvard University
Subdivided a film featuring community building efforts in the suburbs
CommunityGuy.com - an exploration of how to put community thinking to work in business

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Types of communities

Intentional communities | Communities of practice | Virtual Communities | Community of interest

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Online community

Articles:

Categories:

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Related portals

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Community news

Wikimedia launches new "incubator".

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Selected biography

Ferdinand Tönnies (1855 - 1936), was a German sociologist best known for describing two distinguishable types of social groups — Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft. Gemeinschaft — often translated as community — refers to groupings based on a feeling of togetherness. Gesellschaft — often translated as society — on the other hand, refers to groups that are sustained by an instrumental goal. Gemeinschaft may by exemplified by a family or a neighbourhood; Gesellschaft by a joint-stock company or a state.

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Quotes

"...Only the purpose of a coherent community, fully alive both in the world and in the minds of its members, can carry us beyond fragmentation, contradiction, and negativity, teaching us to preserve, not in opposition but in affirmation and affection, all things needful to make us glad to live." Wendell Berry - from a speech titled The Purpose of a Coherent Community delivered on September 29, 2004 to the National Preservation Conference of the National Trust for Historic Preservation at Louisville, Kentucky - USA

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Community lists

See the Virtual community article for:

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WikiProjects

Some related WikiProjects:

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Things you can do

Community has been nominated as a "Good article"

Portal queue and archive

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Community development

Community development is the study and practice of building and understanding how communities work (or fail to work). From neighborhoods to ecovillages, the idea of community is an important aspect of society in every part of the Global village and within the World Community.

Take a look at Community development section of the main Community article and at the main article, Community development to learn more.

Some other articles: Saguaro Seminar, Bowling Alone, General Social Survey, Grassroots movement

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