Concept information
Preferred term
communities (sociology)
Definition(s)
- The concept of community developed mostly in sociology to refer to an organic whole whose components are tied together by a common and innate moral order. Classical literature on community emphasizes its homogeneity in terms of the beliefs and activities of its members, who are interrelated in face-to-face relationships and whose allegiance and belonging are clearly defined. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Communities]
Broader concept(s)
Narrower concept(s)
- activism and social transformation
- affinity communities
- communities: case studies
- community design
- instrumental communities
- intentional communities
- internet and communities
- key people in community studies
- local communities
- politics and law
- primordial communities
- processes and institutions
- proximate communities
- rural life
- rural sociology
- social life
- urban and suburban life
- urban sociology
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URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-PX2BS6PW-D
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