COMMUNITIES DOCX

Title	COMMUNITIES
Author	John Philip David
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File Type	DOCX
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COMMUNITIES • Based on the aforementioned definitions, • Community is a place where one lives, Hillery (Poplin, 1972) identified the works and plays. elements of a community. • Community may refer loosely to some • subgroups like an academic community, a 1. People - the very basic component of commu...

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COMMUNITIES Community is a place where one lives, works and plays. Community may refer loosely to some subgroups like an academic community, a community of writers, priests, or scholars, etc. Community denotes a group of people occupying a definite territory, living together with families, and the neighbourhood. Hillery (Poplin, 1972) describes community as consisting of persons in social interaction within a geographic area and having one or more additional common ties. A community is a social group with some degree of "we feeling", living in a given area. To develop a real community, it is essential that the people in it participate in its activities and acquire a sense of belonging. A community may be limited to a specific area, or it may embrace all people who commune in the fellowship of similar attitudes and values. Osborn and Neumeyer (1933) define community as a group of people living in a contiguous geographic area, having common centres of interest and activities, and functioning together in the chief concern of life. Kornblum (2003) community is a set of primary and secondary groups in which the individual carries out important life functions. Horton (1984) defines community as a local grouping within which people carry out a full round of life activities. Martindale (1984) a community may also be viewed as a process or a movement toward unity in the system of social life, an on-going movement which is never completed of finished. Elements of Community Based on the aforementioned definitions, Hillery (Poplin, 1972) identified the elements of a community. 1. People - the very basic component of society is the people. 2. Territory - when people live together in clusters, they eventually declare themselves as belonging to that particular territory; a definite are occupied by people. 3. Interaction - refers to the day- to- day encounter with the other members of the community. With the presence of interaction, society improves generally. 4. Common values - in every society, there exists a common standard of proper behaviour. Common norms and values shared by each member promote closer ties to members. Living together promotes sharing of sentiments and goals. Basic Social Institutions Family – primary agent of socialization; the environment into which the child is born and in which his/her earliest experiences with other people occur, these experiences have a lasting influence in his/her personality. – The basic unit of all institutions. – Composed of parents and children, with or without relatives, united by bonds of love and affection and who share common social activities. – The parents perform the functions of reproduction and initiate the socialization of the children. Religious Institutions Societies have at least a system of beliefs and practices relate to supernatural being....