What is a Community?

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What is a Community?
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Vocabulary/Word Wall

• Amalgamation
• Viable
• Organization
• Agrarian
• City-States
• Nation-States
• Conversant
• Aggregation
• Consciousness
• Mores
• Society
• Cohesion
• Status quo
• Stagnant
• Propensity

• Propensity
• Norm
• Deviate
• Factions
• Hierarchy
• Socialization
• Propagate
• Collaboration
• Intuitive
• Inherited
• Sociology
• Association
• Disenfranchisement

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Definition of Community

• A community is an amalgamation of living things
  that share an environment.
• a unified body of individuals
• a group of people with a common characteristic or
  interest living together within a larger society
• Question Is our town a community?

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The Context of Community

• The Latin root munus or gift, brings into the
  meaning of community the aspect of giving of
  one's self to others. The balance between
  self-interest and shared-interests within and
  among members of a group is the crucial factor in
  community formation.
• The common good the whole is more important
  than the individual.
• Examples Charity, Community Service,
  Volunteering, etc.

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Why Community?

• Herd mentality
• Hunters Gatherers Hunting in packs more
  successful
• Division of Labor Specialization
• Support

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Agrarian Communities

• Livestock
• Farming
• Leads to Sedimentary/stationary communities.
• Increase in population Larger community
• Greater division of labor

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Shipwrecked Evolution

• Formation of government
• Dividing tasks labor
• Trade Money (currency)
• Laws/Rules Implementing/enforcement
• Shared culture (way of livingwhat is right or
  wrong, how to behave)
• Interaction with other communities trade,
  socialization, war, etc.

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Community/Society

• Communities (Gemeinschaft ) share a collective
  consciousness or shared norms/values, mores. A
  feeling of togetherness exists.
• Societies (Gesellschaft) share an instrumental
  goal. Ex The Constitution is the document/goal
  that binds the U.S. together.

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Deviating From the Norm/Community
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Deviation From the Community to Form Another
Community

• Authority figures, like parents, teachers,
  police, government enforce the community norms
  (rules, culture)
• Some (especially early adolescents) rebel against
  the existing community and form their own, like
  skateboarders, punk rockers, etc.
• Community

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Sense of Community

• Collective personality
• A balance between keeping your individuality and
  your desire to be part of the group Sense of
  community
• Respect yourself respect others Community

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How would you describe your community?